Five Secrets to Optimize Your People, Technology, and Budget

IT is frequently under pressure from the business to deliver projects and services within tight deadlines. When IT cannot deliver on the people or technology side due to resource constraints, IT is often perceived as a bottleneck or inhibitor to success.
Without documented data on the use of people and technology resources, CIOs do not have the evidence they need to demonstrate the strain on IT and the need for increased staff or budget to cover demand.
Software available on the market is expensive and building from scratch is cumbersome. CIOs need reliable processes and tools to be successful.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Turn “I think” into “I know.” Take the emotion out of decision making by using data to prove the need for budget and staffing changes.
Right-size your resource strategy. You don’t need to know or do everything to get results – know your limits and plan within them.
Take an agile approach to optimization. If you don’t succeed the first time, try again.

Impact and Result

Create a resource strategy that not only demonstrates the work that IT does, but also maximizes IT’s capacity by optimizing the pipeline to get as many IT projects complete as possible.
Build clear reports on IT utilization and productivity and leverage these in critical business and finance conversations.

Five Secrets to Optimize Your People, Technology, and Budget Research & Tools

1. Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should optimize IT resources, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

Five Secrets to Optimize Your People, Technology, and Budget – Executive Brief

2. Structure the project

Identify the organization’s fit for resource strategy optimization and define clear goals and metrics for success.

3. Build the strategy

Identify and document resource supply and demand.

4. Optimize and leverage the strategy

Optimize the resource strategy and identify opportunities to leverage it in key conversations with stakeholders.

You can do anything, but you can’t do everything.

About Info-Tech

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We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.