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13D Lead Presentation: The IT Organization's Credibility Curve: Elevating Performance and Perceptions (BMIT)

With organizational growth comes credibility. The Gartner IT Credibility Curve identifies the states of credibility and applies them to crucial management dimensions, creating a framework for IS organizations to know where they are, where they need to be, and what management systems and practices will get them there. Key issues include:
  • What are the stages to building credibility? What factors impede or propel organizations from one level to the next?
  • What are the most critical management dimensions to consider in building and sustaining performance credibility?
  • What is the role of the IT planning process in building credibility and creating perceptions of business value?
  • How can IS organizations use the insights derived from the credibility curve to develop actionable strategies for improvement?
16C Building and Sustaining IT Credibility: Organizational and Governance Imperatives (BMIT)

This presentation provides advice on how to scale Gartner's Credibility Curve through selective use of organizational structures and governance strategies. Learn how to balance centralized and decentralized organizational structures and implement robust principle-driven governance to achieve quantum leaps up the credibility curve.
  • How can IT organizations build productive, effective, value generating relationships with business stakeholders?
  • What governance structures and processes enhance the IT organizations ability to achieve lasting credibility within the enterprise?
  • What structures and organizational models support the development of credibility of the IT organization.
32D Driving Credibility Through People: Making the Connection Concrete (BMIT)

IT and business leaders know intuitively that the performance and resilience of their people drive the credibility and success of their organization. So how do they make that connection concrete when justifying investment in people? This presentation explores practices and tools that will help leaders link the contribution of people to the credibility of their organizations. Key issues include:
  • What forces, trends and issues will have the greatest impact on enterprise workforce strategies?
  • What factors will drive the selection, development and sourcing of people?
  • What will managers of the future look like?
35I Human Capital: Doing More With Less (BMIT, BIDW)

With the expense of human capital continuing to rise, coupled with the inability to recruit new hires, companies need innovative ways to do more with less.
  • What innovative solutions can be deployed to maximize employee productivity?
  • How can culture affect how work is performed?
  • What processes can be implemented to drive agility and speed?
37E Virtual Teaming: Tips, Tools and Techniques for High Performance (BMIT, SMB)

Virtual Teaming is continuing to grow in global business as the preferred work structure for collaborating across boundaries of time and space. But the failure rate of virtual teams is still very high because of organizational conflicts, corporate culture, and inadequate tools and processes. This presentation drills into a specific action plan for leading, motivating and supporting virtual teams by focusing on actionable steps to form the team, selecting the right collaboration tools, and creating the necessary processes for virtual team productivity and effectiveness. Key issues include:
  • What are the critical success factors that enhance team performance?
  • How should collaborative tools be selected for different teamwork requirements?
  • What are the critical processes needed to ensure team effectiveness?
38D Managing for Value: A Key to IT Credibility (BMIT)

Many IS organizations provide services that are woefully undervalued by the business. Part of improving IS credibility involves understanding value and how it gets created. This presentation helps IS organizations ensure that their investments and resources do create business value. Key issues include:
  • How can IS organizations demonstrate value to the business?
  • What mechanisms help ensure that value is created and recognized from IT investments?
42C Making Internal Service Management Work - For Your Clients, for You (BMIT)

Effective internal service delivery is determined by habitual behaviors - both in the service delivery organization and in the enterprise at large. Raising the performance bar requires tackling non-viable historical practices in both camps and replacing them with a new, integrated paradigm. This track builds on Gartner's groundbreaking research in internal service management, providing reality-based processes and tactics for transforming IT into a credible, customer and service centric business partner. Key issues include:
  • How to define, sell and manage a true service portfolio.
  • How to determine and position the market competitiveness of the IT organization on a service-by-service basis and use that knowledge to radically improve organizational credibility and effectiveness.
  • Develop an understanding of the forces affecting internal service supply and demand and how to mitigate the constraints impeding effective resource justification and allocation.
  • How to design and execute coordinated, customer-centric service delivery processes.
43H Seven Simple Steps to a Better IT Bottom Line (BMIT)

IS organizations lose credibility if they do not have a grasp of the financial side of IT. This presentation explores how organizations can use peer comparisons, spending metrics and chargeback systems to get a better handle on their bottom line.
  • How can IS organizations determine the cost of their services?
45A Winning Strategies for Sourcing IT Professionals (BMIT, SORC)

Enterprises must align career development and resource management systems with IT and business objectives, thus providing the enterprise the ability to do more with less. To do so, they must change the methods and criteria by which they identify, measure, assess and reward IT professionals. In essence, the greatest danger enterprises may face in remaining competitive in the battle for highly prized IT professionals may lie within the practices of their own organizations. Key issues include:
  • How will skills and competencies serve as the foundation for your human capital management processes?
  • How can you enhance project success rates, improve employee productivity, and utilize your workforce more effectively?
  • How can you simultaneously reduce the costs for contractors and enhance the motivation of your employees?
 
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