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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Understand the capabilities and focus areas required to meet your industry’s needs and enable value creation.
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Industry Benchmarking
Reveal the true state of your IT services, processes, spend, and staffing levels to align your priorities and resources. Benefit from peer data to get a reference point for how well you stack up.
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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Strategy Alignment
Tribal Nation Reference Architecture
- Demonstrate the value of IT’s role in supporting your tribal nation’s capabilities while highlighting the importance of proper alignment between nation building and IT strategies.
- Recognize the opportunity for architecture work, analyze the current and target states of your tribal nation’s strategy, and identify and engage the appropriate contributors.
- Apply reference architecture techniques such as strategy maps, value streams, and capability maps to design usable and accurate blueprints of your tribal nation.
- Assess your initiatives and priorities to determine if you are investing in the right capabilities. Conduct capability assessments to identify opportunities and to prioritize projects.
Strategy Alignment
Prepare for Your Tribal Nation’s IT Organizational Design
This blueprint will walk you through strategic decision-making topics that tribal nations should explore and document prior to initiating an IT placement and organization design process. Each tribal nation is unique, and this necessitates in-depth future-state analysis and vigilant documentation of distinct tribal nation context and requirements, as well as allowing for flexibility and growth over time.
- Identify and document rules, regulations, and compacts that influence the IT organization’s current state and differentiate between actual and perceived influencing forces.
- Explore and document key areas of focus for IT organization placement and design within your unique tribal nation.
- Analyze key areas of focus against the IT organization’s current state and gain an understanding of the implications for IT organization placement and design.
- Craft a communication plan that will address key areas of focus and provide mitigation tactics to gain and maintain ongoing buy-in for this initiative as you move through IT organizational change.
Strategy Alignment
Empower Members Through Digital Engagement
- Gain insight into what a digital strategy is and how it can be leveraged to stop disjointed and ad hoc digital adoption by the nation.
- Learn about what digital strategies have been implemented by other tribal nations and how those initiatives deliver value to the nation’s membership.
- Collaborate with the tribal nation to highlight how IT is a critical stakeholder that can proactively support the projects of the nation with a digital component.
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Industry Benchmarking
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2018 Tribal Government Benchmark Reports
- Use the data and analysis from Info-Tech's NATRC 2018 Tribal Government Benchmark Reports to inform your tribal nation’s strategic plan.
- Understand which practices and trends have the biggest impact on overall tribal nation performance.
- Benchmark your tribe’s effectiveness and priorities against other tribal nations.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
Core Industry Technologies
Select, Implement, or Change a Resource & Patient Management System
- Maximize your success and credibility by making a solid business case for your RPMS project by understanding the value it provides to the agency and community and be prepared to support it.
- Prepare for key objections and challenges by defining the tribal agency and community context for your RPMS deployment and making sure your technical requirements can satisfy your business requirements.
- Develop a comprehensive request for proposal based on your requirements and score your responses using a standard methodology.
- Effectively guide the organization through the healthcare services and RPMS project by carefully planning the change, communications, and your project timeline prior to implementation.
Core Industry Technologies
Vendor Landscape: Emergency Incident Management Systems
- Effective emergency incident management solutions are critical to protecting and maintaining tribal assets, particularly with all of the threats that exist today. Shortlist the solutions based on your feature requirements, paying close attention to deployment options, mapping capabilities, and the needs of your agency.
- Save time and money by using Info-Tech’s Vendor Landscape to understand what’s new in the emergency incident management market for tribal nations and compare and contrast the major emergency incident management vendors.
Core Industry Technologies
Build Effective Land Management Through GIS
- Use Info-Tech's maturity model tool to develop a roadmap to centralizing the GIS department.
- Clearly demonstrate how the IT department can support the GIS unit with an understanding of their specific needs.
- Calculate the potential ROI for a capable GIS office under the IT department.
- Use the calculated benefits of a well-designed GIS program to prepare for funding and future stability.
Core Industry Technologies
Vendor Landscape: Asset & Work Order Management
- Understand what trends are surfacing in the asset and work order management market.
- Evaluate asset and work order management vendors and products for your enterprise needs.
- Determine which products are most appropriate for particular features, use cases, and scenarios.
Core Industry Technologies
Vendor Landscape: Court & Docket Management System
- Shortlist the solutions based on your feature requirements, paying close attention to integration and reporting capabilities.
- Save time and money by using Info-Tech’s Vendor Landscape to compare and contrast the major Court & Docket Management System (CDMS) vendors, and then create a shortlist of the most appropriate vendors.
Core Industry Technologies
Vendor Landscape: Enrollment and Membership Management Systems
- Shortlist the solutions based on your budget and feature requirements, paying close attention to integration and implementation.
- Save time and money by using Info-Tech’s Vendor Landscape to compare and contrast the major Enrollment and Membership Management solutions, and then create a shortlist of the most appropriate vendors.
Core Industry Technologies
Vendor Landscape: Financial Management Solutions
- Shortlist the solutions based on your feature requirements, paying close attention to integration and reporting capabilities.
- Save time and money by using Info-Tech’s Vendor Landscape to compare and contrast the major Financial Management Systems vendors, and then create a shortlist of the most appropriate vendors.
Latest Indigenous Peoples Notes
Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.
Don’t Get Left Behind: A Review of American Rescue Plan Funding Priorities for Tribal Governments That Aim To Strengthen Community Services Through Technology
May 28, 2021
The American Rescue Plan (ARP) is the third stimulus package passed by the federal government of the United States since March 2020. Stimulus funding aims to address gaps created as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. ARP comprises $1.9 trillion in mandatory funding, programming, and tax policies, which will provide significant relief to Americans adversely affected by the pandemic. Tribal government IT professionals must be aware of the variety of funding opportunities available that are designed to strengthen community services and support the recovery of tribal nations from the impacts of COVID-19.
Win More Grant Funding Opportunities – Executive Brief
December 16, 2020
Read this executive brief to discover the importance of grants to tribal nations and learn more about Info-Tech's methodology to enhance your nation's grant writing process.
Empower Members Through Digital Engagement – Executive Brief
December 14, 2020
Read our concise Executive Brief to gain insight into what a digital strategy is and why your nation should create one.
Prepare for Your Tribal Nation’s IT Organizational Design – Executive Brief
February 26, 2020
Read this Executive Brief to understand why tribal nation context and foundational knowledge are critical to IT organizational placement, design, and nation building.
Build Effective Land Management Through GIS – Executive Brief
September 12, 2018
Read this Executive Brief to understand why GIS is important, what the challenges are, and how you can overcome the issues.
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