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Maximize Your American Rescue Plan Funding

Partner with the organization to thrive post-pandemic.

  • Will funding from COVID-19 stimulus opportunities mean more human and financial resources for IT?
  • Are there governance processes in place to successfully execute large projects?
  • What does a large, one-time influx of capital mean for keeping-the-lights-on budgets?
  • How will ARP funding impact your internal resourcing?
  • How can you ensure that IT is not left behind or an afterthought?

Our Advice

Critical Insight

  • Seek a one-to-many relationship between IT solutions and business problems. Use the central and overarching nature of IT to identify one solution to multiple business problems that span multiple programs, departments, and agencies.
  • Lack of specific guidance should not be a roadblock to starting. Be proactive by initiating the planning process so that you are ready to act as soon as details are clear.
  • IT involvement is the lynchpin for success. The pandemic has made this theme self-evident, and it needs to stay that way.
  • The fact that this funding is called COVID-19 relief might make you think you should only use it for recovery, but actually it should be viewed as an opportunity to help the organization thrive post-pandemic.

Impact and Result

  • Shift IT’s role from service provider to innovator. Take ARP funding as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create future enterprise capabilities by thinking big to consider IT innovation that can transform the business and its initiatives for the post-pandemic world.
  • Whether your organization is eligible for a direct or an indirect transfer, be sure you understand the requirements to apply for funding internally through a business case or externally through a grant application.
  • Gain the skills to execute the project with confidence by developing a comprehensive statement of work and managing your projects and vendor relationships effectively.

Maximize Your American Rescue Plan Funding Research & Tools

Use our research to help maximize ARP funding.

Follow Info-Tech's approach to think big, align with the business, analyze budget and staffing, execute with confidence, and ensure compliance and reporting.

About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

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.

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Get the help you need in this 6-phase advisory process. You'll receive 11 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.

Guided Implementation 1: Think big.
  • Call 1: Discuss what ARP means for IT.
  • Call 2: Discuss business drivers for change.

Guided Implementation 2: Align with the business.
  • Call 1: Align opportunities and initiatives with business goals.
  • Call 2: Review project prioritization criteria.

Guided Implementation 3: Analyze IT budget and staffing.
  • Call 1: Identify project categories.
  • Call 2: Discuss business benefits and project prioritization.

Guided Implementation 4: Build the case for funding.
  • Call 1: Identify opportunities for direct and indirect funding.
  • Call 2: Review template to draft business cases or grant proposals.

Guided Implementation 5: Execute with confidence
  • Call 1: Review vendor management strategy and identify pain points.

Guided Implementation 6: Ensure compliance and reporting.
  • Call 1: Discuss project governance framework.
  • Call 2: Identify project portfolio reporting requirements.

Authors

Hannes Scheidegger

Shannon Reid

Teodora Siman

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