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Infrastructure & Operations is changing rapidly. It’s a constant challenge to find the right skills to support the next new technology while at the same time maintaining the skills in house that allow you to support your existing platforms.
A lack of clarity around required skills makes finding the right skills difficult, and it’s not clear whether you should train, hire, contract, or outsource to address gaps.
You need to keep up with changes and new strategy while continuing to support your existing environment.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Take a strategic approach to acquiring skills – looking only as far as the needs of the next project will lead to a constant skills shortage with no plan for it to be addressed.
Begin by identifying your future state. Identify needed skills in the organization to support planned projects and initiatives, and to mitigate skills-related risks.

Impact and Result

Leverage your infrastructure roadmap and cloud strategy to identify needed skills in your future state environment.
Decide how you’ll acquire needed skills based on the characteristics of need for each skill.
Communicate the change and create a plan of action for the skills transformation.

Map Technical Skills for a Changing Infrastructure & Operations Organization Research & Tools

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Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should map technical skills for a changing Infrastructure & Operations organization, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

Map Technical Skills for a Changing Infrastructure & Operations Organization – Executive Brief

1. Identify skills needs for the future state environment

Identify what skills are needed based on where the organization is going.

2. Acquire needed skills

Ground skills acquisition decisions in the characteristics of need.

3. Maximize the value of the skills map

Get stakeholder buy-in; leverage the skills map in other processes.

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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: Identify skills needs for your future state environment

Call 1: Discuss drivers for this project. Connect upcoming initiatives to environmental changes and skills-related risks.
Call 2: Review roles and skills required to support your future state environment.

Guided Implementation 2: Acquire needed skills

Call 1: Review the five key factors that influence your decision to hire, train, contract, or outsource needed skills.
Call 2: Review strategies for training, hiring, contracting, or outsourcing skills.

Guided Implementation 3: Maximize the value of your skills map

Call 1: Review what the change is, why it’s happening, how it will be rolled out, how long it will take, and how stakeholders will be affected.
Call 2: Identify additional programs and projects that can add value to your skills map exercise.

Author

Frank Trovato

Contributors

Thomas J. Berray, Managing Partner, Cabot Consultants
Deborah Gelch, CIO and CISO, Lasell College
David Linthicum, SVP, Cloud Technology Partners
Alan Harnum, Senior Inclusive Developer, Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University
Gene Kim, Author, CTO and DevOps Enthusiast
Keith Keller, CTO for Information Technology, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. John Medcof, Professor and Associate Dean, McMaster University
Patrick Tinklenberg, VP of IT, Sycuan Casino
Oliver Tsai, IT Director, Sunnybrook Health Sciences
2 anonymous contributors

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Last Revised: April 7, 2017

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IaaS, managed services, hybrid, cloud, infrastructure and operations, ops, organization, knowledge and experience, job descriptions, SDI, Software-defined, DevOps, SysOps, Infrastructure Skills, UCS, Infrastructure as Code

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