Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table
November 14, 2013 meeting
Present: Jeff Crowell, Jim Sutter, Sean Brown, William Zauner, Jeff Hecht, Jeff Reed, Dave Phillips
The
following is a list of topics and speakers through December:
11/14/13 IT
Governance Jeff
Crowell, uGovernIT -
Demand, Project Portfolio, Service Portfolio
Management
12/12/13 Microsoft update Hicham Semaan, Quickstart
Topic: IT
Governance – establishing key processes in the SMB client space
Jeff started his presentation by describing the CIO’s view
of IT Governance. The 3 competing, concurrent activities are:
- responding
to normal service and project requests,
- contributing
to strategic initiatives to increase revenues,
- and
do more with less.
There are frameworks for IT Governance (CoBIT, ITIL, COSO,
CMM)) but it depends on the maturity of the company. Check Jeff’s slides 7 –
21, and his case study. You will need a process to rank competing projects, and
how they relate to the business strategy.
The case study results point out the need for executive leadership, a
realistic grasp of what can be done in a given timeframe, and a willingness to
outsource some functions. There is a
need for portfolio management using strategic objectives and correlation
matrices.
This presentation led to a lively discussion. Jeff’s handout includes many slides as part of an Appendix, which he did not have time to cover in the meeting. His slides are at:
http://www.slideshare.net/occio .
Thank you, Jeff, for a very good presentation on an
interesting topic.
