Create a Work-From-Anywhere Strategy | Info-Tech Research Group

Work-from-anywhere isn’t going anywhere. During the initial rush to remote work, tech debt was highlighted and the business lost faith in IT. IT now needs to:

Rebuild trust with the CXO.
Identify gaps created from the COVID-19 rush to remote work.
Identify how IT can better support remote workers.

IT went through an initial crunch to enable remote work. It’s time to be proactive and learn from our mistakes.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

It’s not about embracing the new normal; it’s about resiliency and long-term success. Your strategy needs to not only provide short-term operational value but also make the organization more resilient for the unknown risks of tomorrow.
The nature of work has fundamentally changed. IT departments must ensure service continuity, not for how the company worked in 2019, but for how the company is working now and will be working tomorrow.
Ensure short-term survival. Don’t focus on becoming an innovator until you are no longer stuck in firefighting.
Aim for near-term innovation. Once you’re a trusted operator, become a business partner by helping the business better adapt business processes and operations to work-from-anywhere.

Impact and Result

Follow these steps to build a work-from-anywhere strategy that resonates with the business:

Identify a vision that aligns with business goals.
Design the work-from-anywhere value proposition for critical business roles.
Benchmark your current maturity.
Build a roadmap for bridging the gap.

Benefit employees’ remote working experience while ensuring that IT heads in a strategic direction.

Create a Work-From-Anywhere Strategy Research & Tools

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Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should create a work-from-anywhere strategy, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

Create a Work-From-Anywhere Strategy – Executive Brief

1. Define a target state

Identify a vision that aligns with business goals, not for how the company worked in 2019, but for how the company is working now and will be working tomorrow.

2. Analyze current fitness

Don’t focus on becoming an innovator until you are no longer stuck in firefighting mode.

3. Build a roadmap for improving enterprise apps

Use these blueprints to improve your enterprise app capabilities for work-from-anywhere.

4. Build a roadmap for improving strategy, people & leadership

Use these blueprints to improve IT’s strategy, people & leadership capabilities for work-from-anywhere.

5. Build a roadmap for improving infrastructure & operations

Use these blueprints to improve infrastructure & operations capabilities for work-from-anywhere.

6. Build a roadmap for improving IT security & compliance capabilities

Use these blueprints to improve IT security & compliance capabilities for work-from-anywhere.

Create a Work-From-Anywhere Strategy visualization

Ensure short-term survivability while working toward near-term innovation.

About Info-Tech

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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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Guided Implementation 1: Define a target state

Call 1: Assess current work-from-anywhere fitness and objectives.
Call 2: Design IT’s value proposition for work-from-anywhere.

Guided Implementation 2: Analyze current fitness

Call 1: Assess current fitness and satisfaction.
Call 2: Review your fitness results.

Guided Implementation 3: Build a work-from-anywhere roadmap

Call 1: Identify the strategy’s scope.
Call 2: Create initiative profiles.
Call 3: Identify and prioritize improvements.
Call 4: Summarize results and plan next steps.

Author

Ken Weston

Search Code: 96591
Last Revised: March 17, 2021

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