OC CIO Minutes November 14, 2013

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.