Create a Work-From-Anywhere Strategy
Ensure short-term survivability while working towards near-term innovation.
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- Tech debt was highlighted.
- Remote work threatened service continuity.
- IT and the company used quick-wins to make the transition.
Use this opportunity to be proactive:
- Strengthen IT operations to provide short-term operational value.
- Become more resilient for the unknown risks of tomorrow.
- Directly improve users’ day-to-day lives and provide near-term business value.
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Module 1: Define a Target State
The Purpose
Define the direction of your work-from-anywhere strategy and roadmap.
Key Benefits Achieved
Base your decisions on senior leadership and user needs.
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| 1.1 | Identify drivers, benefits, and challenges. |
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| 1.2 | Perform a goals cascade to align benefits to business needs. |
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| 1.3 | Define a vision and success metrics. |
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| 1.4 | Define the value IT brings to work-from-anywhere. |
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Module 2: Review In-Scope Capabilities
The Purpose
- Focus on value. Ensure that major applications and IT capabilities will relieve employees’ pains and provide them with gains.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Learn from past mistakes and successes.
- Increase adoption of resulting initiatives.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Review work-from-anywhere framework and identify capability gaps. |
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| 2.2 | Review diagnostic results to identify satisfaction gaps. |
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| 2.3 | Record improvement opportunities for each capability. |
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| 2.4 | Identify deliverables and opportunities to provide value for each. |
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| 2.5 | Identify constraints faced by each capability. |
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Module 3: Build the Roadmap
The Purpose
- Build a short-term plan that allows you to iterate on your existing strengths and provide early value to your users.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Provide early value to address operational pain points.
- Build a plan to provide near-term innovation and business value.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Organize initiatives into phases. |
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| 3.2 | Identify tasks for short-term initiatives. |
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| 3.3 | Estimate effort with Scrum Poker. |
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| 3.4 | Build a timeline and tie phases to desired business benefits. |
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