May 05, 2008

90 Days to Radical Cost Take Outs

IT organizations are increasingly challenged these days just to keep the lights on. Additionally, the business is looking to cut costs, maximize efficiencies and reduce spend during these economically challenging times. IT leaders usually leverage standard playbooks of consolidation, rightsizing, outsourcing, and vendor rationalization to meet the objectives of the business. When leveraging such playbooks, IT leaders should incorporate a “lean discipline blueprint” that will not only amplify the impact of their initiatives, moreover, it will serve to create a sustaining operating model that is best in class compared against their peers. To do this, IT leaders should execute the... more

TAGS: Lean IT

April 21, 2008

Forensics for real-time computing

Firms IT organizations cannot become real time in practice or reality – without instituting a systematic discipline to decomposing problems within their IT infrastructure. In our experience, we found that by leveraging a forensic sciences approach to cause and effect ecreation or identification can rapidly improve IT service delivery and quality of experience. Below overviews an IT based Fo•ren•sic (f -r n s k, -z k) adj. - Relating to the use of science or technology in the investigation and establishment of facts. Meth•od•ol•o•gy (m th -d l -j ) n. - A body of practices, procedures, and rules used... more

TAGS: Change Management Strategy

April 16, 2008

Service orientation of IT

We are entering a new phase of IT where organizations must orient delivery of service across the entire IT supply chain to behave and operate in a real time manner. Those organizations that don’t embark on this transformational journey will not deliver the desired business growth and maximized shareholder value that is the fiduciary responsibilities of IT executives in support of their businesses. Let’s call this the Service Orientation of IT, where leading innovative firms are using as a strategy to improve the long term competitive position of business – by delivering anytime, anywhere information and processing as the business... more

TAGS: Cloud Computing

April 08, 2008

Change management strategy for legacy IT transformation

One of the biggest challenges facing IT executives and organizations trying to transform their legacy applications, infrastructure and operations is the resistance to change. In many cases, this resistance to change is likely justifiable for numerous reasons – shortage of time, skills, resources or perceived disruption to the business. More often than not though, the true cause of resistance is due to the “unknown” in terms of a lack of understanding of new technology and the state of poorly documented/understood applications, systems, dependencies and actual user experience. The other big “unknown” is actually due to IT’s inability to step out... more

TAGS: Change Management Strategy