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Boosting IT’s Role in the Enterprise
Laurie M. Orlov
VP and Research Director
Forrester Research
Agenda
• Making the most of IT’s Innovation Capacity
» What are the current IT spending patterns across industries?
» How much is spent on new initiatives versus ongoing maintenance and operations — what Forrester calls IT’s innovation capacity?
» What is IT Innovation?
• Marketing IT
» How good is IT at communicating with the business?
» What are the core elements of marketing IT?
» How is marketing of IT related to IT’s role in business transformation and innovation?
Typical CIO’s View Of IT Spend
Valuable investment in
promising blue skies technologies
Patchy detail on the 75% of IT budget
spent on ongoing IT operations
Problem contracts & projects pushed into
the background
Typical CEO’s View Of IT Spend
Cloud of IT cost hanging over the business
Hard-to-spot risk that IT projects
will fail
Typical CFO’s View Of IT Spend
Inability to shed light on project ROI or IT ROA
No visibility into cost attribution by project
or service
Bad news on the way
IT’s role in the enterprise has changed…
IT Spending As A Percentage Of Revenues, 2005 Benchmark
May 2005, Best Practices “US IT Spending Benchmarks For 2005”
Why The Overall Ratio Of IT Spending To Revenues Is A Bad Benchmark
May 2005, Best Practices “US IT Spending Benchmarks For 2005”
2005 IT Spending On Ongoing IT Operations As A Percentage Of Revenues
May 2005, Best Practices “US IT Spending Benchmarks For 2005”
IT’s innovation capacity:
► The amount of available funds that IT can spend on new initiatives in any given year — typically total IT spending minus IT spending on ongoing operations and maintenance.
With total IT spend constant, Innovation Capacity can still grow
Innovation capacity
Operations & maintenance
2.6%
0.6% 0.7% 0.8%
2.5% 2.4%
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
IT spend as a percentage of total revenue
3.2%
Year of IT spend
How vital is the IT organization to the success of the following efforts at your company?
How satisfied are you with the level of support that the IT organization provides to each of the following
efforts?
IT Assets Are Key Ingredients For Business Innovation
What is IT-enabled business innovation?
►Transforming a business process, market offering, or business model to boost value and impact for the enterprise, customers, or partners
Characteristics Of IT Innovation
Examples Of IT-Driven Innovation By Type
12 Steps To Recovering IT’s Role In Business Innovation
Agenda
• Marketing IT
» How good is IT at communicating with the business?
» What are the core elements of marketing IT?
» How is marketing of IT related to IT’s role in business transformation and innovation?
Theme
Marketing helps IT take charge of its own destiny
Yet lack of marketing keeps IT as a cost center, with:
• Invisible contributions
• Regrettable projects
• Interminable rollout cycles
• Underused applications
IT and marketing – like a fish and a bicycle
• Why should we market? We have too much work!
• Marketing is not a fit with our personalities!
• Marketing is the wrong word – it’s communications!
But if it’s communications, they’re mediocre: Not enough business focus…
IT doesn’t talk much, waits to be called, depends on e-mail…
…And is close-mouthed about what else it’s working on
Does a tree fall in the forest?
Theme
Marketing helps IT take charge of its own destiny
What is the marketing of IT?
The business activity of presenting IT’s products, services, and capabilities to constituents
in such a way that makes them eager to fund and utilize
Marketing moves IT up the enterprise value chain
IT’s Marketing Plan — The 4 P’s applied to an IT organization
Planning IT marketing campaigns
Boost IT brand equity
• Use brand to create awareness
» Genesys Health’s PDA123 written up in local press
• Use brand to build lasting trust
» JM Family’s transaction dashboard
• Use brand to attract interest
» 7-11’s technology scholarship
Tactics that are part of IT’s value campaign
Theme
Marketing helps IT take charge of its own destiny
The marketing of IT is a journey – not a miracle
• Market to organizations; sell to individuals
• Get the marketing skills
• Hire a VP of IT marketing – for big shops
• Go public with the “M” word
• Label yourself before the business labels you…
• Be wary of over-marketing
What kind of IT organizations get this first?
• High exposure with end customers
• A need to convince constituents to engage
• Already armed with process discipline
Laurie M. Orlov
617-613-6086
www.forrester.com
Thank you
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