technology investment decisions
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Technology Investment Decisions
Technology Investment Decisions
ACLEA January 2011
Begin with the Big Picture
Technologys Role in Your Organizations Vision and Strategic Direction
Product Lines
Operations
Whats the impact of Big Tech Trends?
New formats & delivery modes
New communication channels
New business operations
Narrow Your Attention
Define your goals for a specific investment in technology
The Low Cost Webcast Provider for [xxx State Law or The Leader in Interactive Online Education
Define the measures of success
1,000 registrations in the first 12 months
$150,000 in income
Narrow Your Attention-cont.
What impact do you expect on your position in the marketplace/ your brand?
Who is responsible for achieving success?
Seminar director (for registrations/sales)
Technology lead (for enabling the tech)
Marketing director (impact on brand)
Understand Your Current Tech Platforms
What tech platforms do you use now?
Are any going to change soon?
Does the new technology need to interface with existing systems and software?
Investigate Tech Options
Given our goals for x, what technology would you recommend?
Do we have several options?
If so, what's the advantage/disadvantage of each?
Who's the dominate provider/ or what's the dominant programming language?
Issomething new on the horizon? If so, when is a transition to the new likely to occur?
Investigate Tech Optionscont.
What staff (or outside contract worker) skills are needed for this implementation? Are these skills readily available in the market place?
How will this technology need tointegrate or interface with our existing tech systems?
What are the problems and issues in the area of integration?
What will it take (staff and software upgrades) to maintain your proposed approach?
IT Strategic Planning
On your markGet setGo!
On your mark
(Know your starting point and direction)
Technology vision
Align guiding principles
ID platform changes
Buy-in
Get set
(Put yourself in the position to succeed)
Create plan
Create budget
Set measurements
Communicate
Go!
(Take steps toward your goals)
Execute your plan
Measure benefits
Communicate
Results of IT strategic planning
1. Project Portfolio Management2. An Assessment Framework3. Questions
A brief history of Project Portfolio Management
ITPROJECTS
ITASSETS
BusinessCase
Innovations, Demand, Ideas
Resourcing
Delivery
Learning
Assets
Run
Optimize
Re-invest
Retire
Projects
Executive &Governance
BusinessIntelligence
The Executive PPM Bicycle
Should be done as a manual practice before considering tools
Can be done by using spreadsheets
PMI has BoK on PPM
Practices for PPM
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An Assessment Framework
The Discussions.
Archive!
What does the business case say?Product Features
The product has features that fulfill business case requirements. List the high level features to be individually assessed.
Check references!Ability to deliver
Organization has existing (positive) relationship with vendor, product or technology or has client references to provide assessment of candidates ability to deliver.
Be comprehensive!Cost
When a solution is costed it includes two attributes; the initial cost of software, consulting and required infrastructure, and the ongoing costs of maintaining the software and infrastructure. Solutions can vary greatly within these two cost attributes. Ongoing costs should also include all HR related costs of running the solution from an operational perspective.
Is it self healing?Sustainability (TCO)
This is a care and feeding question. Does the solution require a great deal of care or is it self healing. The sustainability also includes the solutions ability to stay current to the organizations business and strategic needs. It is also important to consider internal acceptance of the solution(s).
Where are we now and where do we want to go?Alignment
Alignment includes many attributes, does the solution align with our current infrastructure, our current internal skills and knowledge, our current roadmap and our current strategy.
RFI
vs.
RFP
Its about openness!
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Again, it's the Discussions
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Thank-you
Lynn Chard, ICLEYvette Harms, ICLEPeter Rawsthorne, CLEBC
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