How IT Professionals Can Maximize IT's Bottom Line Impact

Length of Workshop:

Half day or full day

General Overview:

This seminar provides practical tools for controlling IT spending while improving IT's impact on the business. Participants will learn how to adopt and implement principles and practices for planning new investments, controlling the costs of existing IT activities, and assessing business impact of existing and planned IT activities. This includes tools for planning, prioritizing, executing, and measuring activities and resources based on their connection and contribution to the company's business strategies and bottom line.

Participants will also perform a company maturity assessment exercise for their company resulting in a set of as-is -- to-be statements for implementing effective IT and business planning processes in their company.

Leader:

Bob Benson

Workshop Goals:

Participants will be able to return to their companies and create customized IT assessment and prioritization tools for controlling IT costs and improving the impact of IT activities.

Intended Audience:

• Business and IT Managers (up to and including CIOs and CFOs) responsible for making resource and spending decisions for IT.
• IT Steering Committee members and other managers responsible for setting IT priorities

Outline/At a Glance:

• Overview -- Bottom-Line Impact Leverage Points for Projects and Portfolios
• • Strategy-to-IT-Action Value Chain
  • Strategic Intentions
  • Total IT Spend
• Value-Focused Projects
• • Strategic Use of IT
  • Value-Focused SDLC (V-SDLC)
• Establish Leverage Points: Portfolio Management / Practices
• • Portfolio Management
  • Alignment
  • Prioritization
  • Strategy-Driven Strategic Planning
  • Innovation Planning
  • Performance Measurement
• Establish Leverage Points: Budgeting / Total IT Spend
• • Portfolio-Based Budget structure
  • Business-Driven Budget process
• Apply Leverage Points: Value-Focused Project Management
• • Total life-Cycle Management
  • Project Portfolio Management
• Implement Leverage Points: IT Governance
• • Roles
  • Management Decisions in the complete Business-Strategy-to-Bottom-Line Value Chain
• Conclusion

For more information on bringing this workshop to your organization, contact Dennis Crowley by phone at +1 781 641 5125, by fax at +1 781 648 1950, or by e-mail at sales@cutter.com.