IT Transformation – Part 5 – The Five Year Strategy

This is part 5 of the Information Technology Transformation series, creating the “Five Year Strategy”.  This involves creating the “Tracks” of the “Strategy” and defining the “Projects” that make up each “Track”.  Once the “Strategy” is finalised (with priority, timeline and budget), it needs to be approved by Senior Management and then planning and implementation can begin.

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IT Transformation – Part 4 – The Target Architecture

This is part 4 of the Information Technology Transformation series, defining the reference “Target Architecture”.  This involves collecting Business Requirements, translating them into “Architectural” technical requirements, creating the “Target Architecture” and then sharing it via summarised Architecture Posters.

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IT Transformation – Part 2 – The “A-Team”

This is part 2 of the Information Technology Transformation series, describing the creation of the “A-Team” / Architecture Office and the associated Architecture Review process.

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IT Transformation – Part 1 – The 90-Day Plan

You have been hired as the new “Chief Architect and Strategist” or “Chief Information Officer” for an organisation that is struggling to deliver services to their customers.  Customers are not satisfied, the company is losing money, staff are demoralised and looking for new jobs; things do not work – how are you going to transform the IT Division?  How do you make sure that your plans and actions will actually fix the problems your customers are complaining about?

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