Build Your Infrastructure Roadmap
Move beyond alignment: Put yourself in the driver’s seat for true business value.
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Infrastructure often struggles to keep up with the pace of change the business demands:
- Business is frustrated with Infrastructure’s slowness
- Shadow IT is rampant
- It’s impossible to get budget for projects
- Your team is constantly overloaded with work
By taking a proactive approach Infrastructure can partner with the business to deliver improved value:
- Better communication with business stakeholders
- Improved business satisfaction
- Better alignment of Infrastructure work with business goals
- Improved balance between care and feeding and new technology initiatives
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Onsite 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 onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Conduct an Organizational Analysis
The Purpose
- Assess staffing resources and align Infrastructure work with business goals.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Improved alignment with stakeholders.
- More accurate understanding of staffing resources.
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1.1 | Evaluate the organizational design. |
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1.2 | Do a time study. |
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1.3 | Analyze Infrastructure's intake process. |
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1.4 | Identify roadblocks. |
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1.5 | Review business outcome responses. |
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1.6 | Postulate goals. |
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1.7 | Perform an initiative-to-goal mapping and analysis. |
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Module 2: Analyze Technology
The Purpose
- Balance care and feeding of current technology with assessment for new technology initiatives.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Clearer picture of existing care and feeding commitments
- Structured evaluation of potential new technologies that may add business value
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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2.1 | Develop a risk framework. |
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2.2 | Evaluate existing inventory. |
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2.3 | Develop a new technology identification process. |
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2.4 | Develop a technology evaluation framework. |
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2.5 | Conduct SWOT analyses. |
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Module 3: Build the Roadmap
The Purpose
- Visualize a snapshot of your portfolio of work and communicate it to key stakeholders.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Improved grasp of work in progress
- Closer partnership with the business
- Improved focus on business value
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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3.1 | Build effective initiative templates. |
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3.2 | Generate new initiatives. |
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3.3 | Repatriate shadow IT initiatives. |
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3.4 | Finalize initiative candidates. |
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Module 4: Improve the Process
The Purpose
- Iterate the roadmap process for continual improvement.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A more efficient roadmap process that achieves better results with less effort
Activities: | Outputs: | |
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4.1 | Build the report. |
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4.2 | Build a schedule of conversations. |
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4.3 | Strategize on how to win support. |
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4.4 | Optimize the process. |
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