OC CIO Minutes July 11, 2013

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

                                July 11, 2013 meeting

Present:        Joel Manfredo, Sean Brown, Jon Grunzweig, Jeff Hecht, Jim Sutter, Jeff Reid, Keith Golden, Jeff Crowell, Dave Phillips

The following is a list of topics and speakers July through October:

7/11/13         Technology Business Management         Joel Manfredo, Acies Consulting

8/08/13         Internet of Things (IOT)                          Jim Sutter, Peer Consulting

9/12/13         BYOD                                                    Jeff Hecht, Word & Brown

10/10/13       Evolving role of the CIO                          Keith Golden, Econolite      

Topic:          Technology Business Management

Joel Manfredo introduced the What, Why, and How of TBM by listing Gartner’s 10 Top Trends for 2013, and the critical tech trends for the next 5 years (Slide 3).  The basic question is will IT exist in 5 years time?  The most important things a CIO can do is to understand the business needs, and actively measure business satisfaction.  TBM means running IT as a business within a business.  The TBM Council’s mission is to collaborate, educate, and benchmark.  Joel’s slides are very rich in content and touch on the framework, disciplines and index (Slides 10-16).  The primary driver behind TBM is to free up resources to enable innovation.  The CEO’s hierarchy of IT needs is shown on Slide 18, which also shows the CIO’s innovation sweet spot.  Slide 22 shows the process by which one determines the right level of IT operational spending.  This is followed by several slides on transparency, service pricing, catalog and costing.  The last slide gives more information on the TBM Council.

Excellent presentation and discussion. – thank you, Joel.  Joel's presentation slides are at: http://www.slideshare.net/occio  .

OC CIO Minutes June 13, 2013

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

June 13, 2013 meeting

Present:        John Mooney, Sean Brown, John Alvertos, Keith Golden, Joel Manfredo, Jeff Hecht, Jim Sutter, Jon Grunzweig, Jeff Crowell, Dave Phillips

The following is a list of topics and speakers June through October:

6/13/13         Preparing for Cloud Computing               John Mooney, Pepperdine

7/11/1           Technology Business Management        Joel Manfredo

8/08/13         Internet of Things (IOT)                           Jim Sutter, Peer Consulting

9/12/13         BYOD                                                    Jeff Hecht, Word & Brown

10/10/13       Evolving role of the CIO                          Keith Golden, Econolite      

Topic:          Realizing business value from Cloud Computing

John Mooney is Department Chair and Associate Professor at Pepperdine University.

He recently took a sabbatical at CISR, where he worked as a research affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management.  He shared with us his findings with regard to Cloud Computing.  A copy of his slides is attached. Cloud computing enables … on-demand, network access with minimal effort to a shared pool of … computing resources.  Slide 4 is an interesting cloud computing taxonomy by Forrester.  The cloud computing case study was done in cooperation with Allergan, where they tried to answer whether the company, the IS department, and their platform was ready to double in size over the next 5 years.  They defined the business capabilities required, the key performance goals for IS, and adopted a “Cloud First” policy to meet their needs.  Agility is key.  They tried to analyze when would Allergan be ready to consider the Cloud.  They did an architectural review for the technology and security, and a vendor due diligence in both 2010 and 2012.  They discovered that the benefits from the Cloud approach were not just cost, but things like increased responsiveness, speed of deployment and business agility.  They also discovered that there were challenges to success, such as data security concerns, immaturity of the vendors, reliability, and long term cost uncertainties.  One of the key questions was what management practices were needed to realize business value from the cloud approach.  They came up with 6 imperatives to prepare for the Cloud:

-                re-define the IT value proposition from efficiency to agility

-                re-focus the enterprise architecture

-                re-allocate funding from CapEx to OpEx

-                re-structure IT governance

-                re-think the purpose of IT

-                re-engineer the IT organization

The implication is for IS to adapt or become obsolete.

 

What a good topic for a future discussion! 

This was a great presentation and I thoroughly recommend that you take the time to study the slides which can be found at: http://www.slideshare.net/occio  .