Take Control of Infrastructure and Operations Metrics | Info-Tech Research Group

Measuring the business value provided by IT is very challenging.
You have a number of metrics, but they may not be truly meaningful, contextual, or actionable.
You know you need more than a single metric to tell the whole story. You also suspect that metrics from different systems combined will tell an even fuller story.
You are being asked to provide information from different levels of management, for different audiences, conveying different information.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Many organizations collect metrics to validate they are keeping the lights on. But the Infrastructure and Operations managers who are benefitting the most are taking steps to ensure they are getting the right metrics to help them make decisions, manage costs, and plan for change.
Complaints about metrics are often rooted in managers wading through too many individual metrics, wrong metrics, or data that they simply can’t trust.
Info-Tech surveyed and interviewed a number of Infrastructure managers, CIOs, and IT leaders to understand how they are leveraging metrics. Successful organizations are using metrics for everything from capacity planning to solving customer service issues to troubleshooting system failures.

Impact and Result

Manage metrics so they don’t become time wasters and instead provide real value.
Identify the types of metrics you need to focus on.
Build a metrics process to ensure you are collecting the right metrics and getting data you can use to save time and make better decisions.

Take Control of Infrastructure and Operations Metrics Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should implement a metrics program in your Infrastructure and Operations practice, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the ways we can support you in completing this project.

1. Gap analysis

This phase will help you identify challenges that you want to avoid by implementing a metrics program, discover the main IT goals, and determine your core metrics.

2. Build strategy

This phase will help you make an actionable plan to implement your metrics program, define roles and responsibilities, and communicate your metrics project across your organization and with the business division.

Member Testimonials

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About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

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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Each call will focus on explaining the material and helping you to plan your project, interpret and analyze the results of each project step, and set the direction for your next project step.

Authors

Frank Trovato

Sandi Conrad

Mahmoud Ramin

Contributors

Fred Bedrich, CISO, BDC
David Grant, Associate Director of Enterprise Services, Canadian Blood Services
Anthony Dehnashi, Director of Security & Governance, Fleet Complete
Craig McGibbon, Principal Consultant, WGroup
Chuck Hobart, VMC
Justin Johnson, Kansas City Chiefs Football Club
Arvind Aggarwal, PMP, Dexter Solutions Inc.
Scott Rodgers, New Zealand Department Of Internal Affairs
Augustine Amusu, HCA International Limited
Carol Wozney, Corix Group of Companies
Derek Boutang, Pembina Trails School District

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Last Revised: March 9, 2021

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