Build a Strategic Infrastructure Roadmap
Building a strategic infrastructure roadmap is a business-driven exercise, not just a technical one.
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Top challenges reported by Info-Tech members:
- Lack of strategic direction – Infrastructure leadership must discover the business goals.
- Time seepage – Project time is constantly being tracked incorrectly.
- Technical debt – Aging equipment is not proactively cycled out with newer enabling technologies.
By following Info-Tech’s approach you will:
- Be able to align your strategy and goals.
- Envision your future state and analyze business constraints.
- Establish a risk framework, identify initiatives, and build your strategic infrastructure roadmap.
- Communicate the results of your hard work to the right people and establish the groundwork for continual improvement of the process.
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Pre-workshop: Elicit business context
The Purpose
- Understand the business goals to align with IT goals.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Have a clear understanding of business priorities.
- Align vision and mission.
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| 1.1 | Complete recommended diagnostic programs. |
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| 1.2 | Interview key business stakeholders as needed to identify business context: business goals, initiatives, and the organization’s mission and vision. |
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| 1.3 | (Optional) CIO to compile and prioritize IT success stories. |
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Module 2: Align strategy and goals
The Purpose
- Develop the infrastructure strategy.
- Define your goals.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Create a vision and mission statement.
- Create a list of goals to achieve.
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| 2.1 | Infrastructure strategy. |
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| 2.2 | Review/validate the business context. |
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| 2.3 | Construct your mission and vision statements. |
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| 2.4 | Elicit your guiding principles and finalize IT strategy scope. |
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| 2.5 | Intake identification and analysis. |
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| 2.6 | Survey results analysis. |
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| 2.7 | Brainstorm goals. |
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| 2.8 | Perform goal association and analysis. |
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Module 3: Envision future and analyze constraints
The Purpose
- Define your future state and analyze your constraints.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Have a clear understanding of what can prevent you from being successful in building your roadmap.
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| 3.1 | Define the future state. |
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| 3.2 | Conduct an emerging technology discussion. |
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| 3.3 | Document desired future state. |
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| 3.4 | Develop a new technology identification process. |
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| 3.5 | Compete SWOT analysis. |
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| 3.6 | Analyze your constraints. |
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| 3.7 | Perform a historical spend analysis. |
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| 3.8 | Conduct a time study. |
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| 3.9 | Identify roadblocks. |
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Module 4: Align and build the roadmap
The Purpose
- Drive business alignment.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Identify platforms that have higher business and IT risk and prioritize initiatives.
- Create roadmaps for both the short and long term that are aligned to your goals.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Align the roadmap. |
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| 4.2 | Develop a risk framework. |
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| 4.3 | Evaluate technical debt. |
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| 4.4 | Build the roadmap. |
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| 4.5 | Build effective initiative templates. |
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| 4.6 | Visualize. |
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| 4.7 | Generate new initiatives. |
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| 4.8 | Repatriate shadow IT initiatives. |
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| 4.9 | Finalize initiative candidates. |
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Module 5: Communicate and improve the process
The Purpose
- Communicate and present C-suite presentation on your roadmap.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Complete a visual representation of your roadmap and a strategy of when to communicate and what.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 5.1 | Identify the audience. |
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| 5.2 | Identify required authors and target audiences. |
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| 5.3 | Plan the process. |
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| 5.4 | Identify supporters and blockers. |
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| 5.5 | Improve the process. |
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| 5.6 | Evaluate the value of each process output. |
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| 5.7 | Brainstorm improvements. |
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| 5.8 | Set realistic measures. |
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