Category: IT Management
- ❓ Who Manages Data in Your Organization? (Spoiler: It’s Not Just the Data Management Office) ()
In the past few months, I’ve been managing a project cataloguing data 🗃️ for our organization, helping the Data Management Office. I noticed an interesting problem: ⚠️ As IT management (focused on software) and data management diverge, a grey zone between them emerges – and that’s a problem. At this point, every serious organization assigns: […]
- Hidden Costs of Innovation: Leader’s Checklist for Managing Risks and Trade-Offs ()
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, innovation is widely hailed as the cornerstone of growth and competitive advantage. Organizations pour resources into groundbreaking ideas, digital transformations, and disruptive strategies to stay ahead. Yet, while the rewards of innovation are celebrated, its true costs are often underestimated or misunderstood. Planning ahead in a Business Plan, a […]
- Leveraging the BCG Matrix for Strategic IT Portfolio Management ()
The Power of Strategic Prioritization In the fast-paced world of IT, managers and technology leaders (CIOs/CTOs) face constant pressure to allocate resources wisely. Balancing innovation, maintenance, and cost-efficiency requires a structured approach. Enter the BCG Matrix (also known as Boston Box Portfolio Analysis), a timeless strategic framework from the Boston Consulting Group. Originally designed for […]
- 🚀 Critical Success Factors in 🎯 Strategic Management ()
Critical Success Factors (CSFs) are factors that influence the economic success of the company and support the strategic goals. They are an integral part of every strategy going right after objectives. CSFs should align to the ‘Vision’ and ‘Mission’ of the organisation. Critical Success factors are identified during Goal planning stage of Strategy Development. They […]
- Choose your projects carefully ()
To us as IT managers running or reviewing projects, prioritizing viable initiatives is critical. Many projects appear promising initially but falter quickly due to predictable flaws. Below are key questions to ask early to separate the wheat from the chaff: First and foremost, projects must align with an organization’s strategic priorities to avoid wasted resources. […]
- RICE Scoring Model for Prioritization ()
RICE is a technique to decide which IT initiatives, product features, or tech upgrades deserve your team’s bandwidth. RICE is a quantitative framework to rank projects based on four factors: 1. Reach: How many users/customers will this impact within the timeframe? Example: A new SSO login feature impacts 10,000 monthly active users. 2. Impact: How critical […]
- Intro into ITIL books, ITIL Certification and Materials for Study ()
ITIL is a world-renowned IT framework dedicated mainly to IT Service Management (ITSM) and other management systems delivering business value to their customers. ITIL has provided thorough, practical, and proven guidelines for developing an IT service management system for the last 30 years. It has also promoted continuous development for enterprises using and providing IT-enabled […]
- 📕 Business Balanced Scorecard ()
The balanced scorecard (BSC or BBS) is a strategic planning framework that companies use to assign priority to their products, projects, and services; communicate about their targets; and plan their routine activities. The name “balanced scorecard” comes from the idea of combining strategic, operational, and financial measures to get a more “balanced” view of performance. […]