ALC Workshop Series:

“Build Your IT Strategy in half a day”

Presented by David LLewellyn Jones

Perth – Monday 27 October 2014

TIME: 9:00 am to 12:30 pm

Workshop Content

How do you determine the best IT Strategy for your organisation – a strategy that balances the need to deliver benefits and yet optimises risks within your resource capabilities? In just half a day, this practical workshop will outline and explain the tools you need. For those involved with formalising and delivering the IT Strategy in a shifting environment of different stakeholder’s needs, the workshop will help you understand all the factors that determine the direction to take and decisions to make.

Part I: Who are the internal and external stakeholders?

What are their main concerns?
How do I derive the best value from the IT investment?
How I manage the performance of IT?
Are the Business Uses satisfied with the quality of the IT services?
How can I best exploit innovations in technology?
Do I have the right balance between externally and internally provided IT services?
Do we have an efficient and resilient IT operation?

Part II: What are the investment priorities?

How to build a comprehensive IT Strategy based on these Stakeholders’ needs?
Setting and prioritising specific enterprise goals and the subsequent IT-related goals, based on specific Stakeholders’ needs?

Workshop Exercises

Exercise 1: Deriving IT Objectives… A Traditional Approach
Exercise 2: Defining an IT Strategy … Using the COBIT5 Goals’ Cascade
Exercise 3: Creating Your Own Strategy
Discussion: Other Factors To Be Included (and how COBIT5 addresses these).

You will need:

In advance of the half-day session, you will need to have considered the top 3 concerns or questions from your own organisation regarding the future use of IT services. For example:

Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Improved quality of service
Improved consistency of service
Easier implementation of new or changed services
Improved service alignment
More effective service performance
Improved IT governance
More effective Service Management and IT processes
Improved information and decision making.