Building your IT strategy (Housing Technology Conference 2014)
- 1. Building your IT strategy Dan Simms Housing Technology Conference 2014
- 2. Welcome Today we’ll look at some tips for building your IT strategy As we go through please keep note of any tips you would like to share with the audience after the presentation
- 3. 2013 is the year of large scale adoption of big data technologies. By 2015, 20% of Global 1000 orgs will have a strategic focus on information infrastructure equal to that of application management. Most enterprises have yet to explore the possibilities of an expanded Internet and are not ready for it. The smart machine era will be the most disruptive in the history of IT. Large cloud services providers such as Amazon are reinventing the way in which IT services can be delivered.
- 4. What is strategy? Business Strategy – “a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim” Garner: “IT strategy is how IT will help the enterprise win. This breaks down into IT guiding the business strategy, and IT delivering on the business strategy.” Broken down into three areas IT operating model IT sourcing strategy IT capabilities
- 5. Steps Discovery Analysis Development Approval Delivery Review
- 6. Ground rules for success Review the business strategy if exists… IT strategy should always underpin this If it doesn’t exist, work with key business stakeholders to agree general principles Innovation runs across all areas and is rarely something that is done in isolation… however make sure you have permission…. Be clear about your “what’s” and “how’s” – more later Be disruptive
- 8. Customers & stakeholders Customers Supporting customer service initiatives is key Be clear about the scope of the service you provide Smart-phones, tablets, online expectation Digital inclusion Apps, photos, social media, SMS, Whatsapp Stakeholders Requirements and desired outcomes Problems, challenges, efficiencies, opportunities Don't shy away from asking for feedback Look at yourself “outside in”
- 9. Governance Gartner defines "as the processes that ensure the effective and efficient use of IT in enabling an organisation to achieve its goals." Review your IT Governance maturity using appropriate frameworks. e.g. frameworks - ISO 20000, ISO 27001, ITIL & COBIT Plan to deal with shadow IT Prioritisation, approval and progress Good governance = confidence… which usually helps with investment
- 10. Service Delivery Look for gaps where business capabilities do not meet with existing service provision People, training, processes, reporting, measurement, delivery, tools Benchmark using frameworks Create programme to deliver improvements Measure progress – balanced scorecard
- 11. Change Delivery Programme Management Delivery methodology Be transparent Top up internal capabilities with third parties Create virtuous cycle
- 12. Information Security, Risk & Compliance Information Security (ISO 27001) Data Protection Business Continuity / Disaster recovery Contractual obligations Many thanks for Neil McMaster – Head of IT Service Delivery at Catalyst Housing Limited for agreeing to use this image of him
- 14. Sourcing strategy In-House, Managed Services, Outsourcing, Multisourcing, co-sourcing or in the cloud? Selecting the right third parties If you’re not clear then complete a review to give you the strengths and weaknesses
- 15. Budget A solid budget is key to delivering change Include contingency Budget at the macro level rather than the micro level Budget without business case – release budget with business case Work closely with finance team Tip: structure your budget to allow easy monthly reporting against budget
- 16. Procurement & value for money Tendering for big ticket items Buying smartly for smaller items Measure and demonstrate Build confidence to release more budget Get your suppliers working for you Sourcing needs managing
- 17. IT Capabilities
- 18. Enterprise Architecture Business outcome driven enterprise architecture helps align IT strategy with Business strategy City building vs House building Lots of tools / frameworks. E.g. Business capability modelling
- 19. Business Capability Modelling Business Capability model useful for documenting the “what” Describes what the business does (outcomes and service levels) Abstracts and encapsulates people, process and technology into building blocks Source: A Business-Oriented Foundation for Service Orientation - Ulrich Homann, Microsoft Corporation, 2006
- 20. Your team capabilities Be clear on the role of your team – support, project delivery, integrator, etc Talent strategy Restructuring? Training & development plan Complement skills (or fill skill gaps) using 3rd parties Resource up or deliver what you can with existing team? When planning don’t over allocate your team! (80% rule)
- 21. Applications Look for gaps where business capabilities not met with IT or has excessive complexity or manual data flow Develop future state where business capabilities are met in a consolidated, simplified, automated and appropriate way Look at business process automation as a way of automating activities and data flow "As is" and "future state" application mapping & application catalogue
- 22. Big Data Compliance Business Intelligence Extracting value Master Data Management
- 23. Mobility & Social Media Both internal and external Large growth area It will not be long before the principal tool of a RSL and resident / customers is a smart phone (B2B) Residents want to consume via smart phone technology (B2C) Huge opportunities to innovate and standout Social media = public stage to succeed or fail
- 24. Putting it all together
- 25. Differs greatly per business Some Powerpoint deck, others report or Aimed at an IT and non-IT audience = Business language Usually visually rich Include strategic principles & outcomes 36 month investment plan & budget Always shows link between IT and Business strategy Could be customer facing…? (In the form of simple pledges) Putting it all together brochure §
- 26. What’s hot in Housing….
- 27. What’s hot in Housing Application Consolidation, CRM, BPM B2C Digital Inclusion Apps Cloud Data Information Security BYOD Source: Hype cycle –Gartner
- 28. Any questions? Please feel free to connect with me on Linked-in or email me: E: dan.simms@brightconsult.co.uk L: www.linkedin.com/in/dansimms
Editor's Notes
- #7: Innovation runs through everythingTalk about recording studio at law firm.Talk about using video to connect with residents - blending personal touch and online. Skype integrated into call centre to provide another low cost mechanism for keeping in touch.
- #9: Lots of groups of people to consider – two focus on here are customer and stakeholdersSupporting customer initiatives is keyTalk about providing technology to underpin what the customer wants and not just for the sake of it. Need to filter out the oiseLook for ways to optimise
- #10: Right governance is key – without this the department won’t function effectively and you won’t be able to deliver change
- #23: Big dataAsking Chewy questions Specific yet open ended Forward looking rather than backward lookingRadically changing business processes Introducing new products & services new markets