- 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.
Workshop: Five Secrets to Optimize Your People, Technology, and Budget
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Make the Case for Optimizing Your Resource Strategy
The Purpose
- Identify key pain points faced by IT.
- Identify IT resourcing goals and metrics.
- Identify strategy opportunities.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Communicate the challenges and opportunities of completing this project.
- Gain a high-level view of resource maturity in your organization.
Activities
Outputs
Identify resourcing pain points
Identify key goals and metrics
- Clear goals and metrics
Identify your desired maturity level
Develop the project purpose statement
- Project communication message
Module 2: Develop a Resource Management Strategy
The Purpose
- Identify people and technology capacity and demand for the organization.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Completed data collection on the organizational needs and capacity for people and technology.
Activities
Outputs
Interview stakeholders
Review survey results
Conduct requirements gathering exercises
Aggregate results
- First draft of the resource strategy
Module 3: Optimize and Leverage the Strategy
The Purpose
- Review the first draft of the IT resource strategy, and identify opportunities where you can optimize and leverage the reports.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Understand optimization techniques.
- Optimize the resource strategy.
- Identify opportunities to leverage the strategy.
Activities
Outputs
Review the utilization graphs
Identify optimization opportunities
- Opportunity overview
Conduct sensitivity testing
Determine report use cases
- Optimized resource strategy