CIO Health Check BAUD Solution
We provide this solution offering as part of the CIO Office Advisory or IT Strategy Consulting services, whether it is directly for CIO clients or the clients of Service Providers.
Purpose
- To provide you, the CIO, with a top-down health-check (NOT bottom-up audit) on your IT Function against a leading industry framework.
- To provide any external advisors/consultants with a ‘good’ Discovery baseline (full IT Function breadth and illustrative maturity depth) on which more effective proposals can be based.
These are based on an optimum balance of breadth vs. depth for a quick, effective service. Adding extra depth in any area (e.g. doing a deeper dive into Enterprise Architecture or Portfolio Management) can be discussed but these will affect the duration, customisation and hence price of the service engagement.
Your Concerns
As a CIO, do you share any of these concerns?
Your Typical Objective
- You’re a new CIO (within last 6 months or so) and want a quick, impartial health-check of your IT Function to fully understand what you’ve got ahead of you.
- You’re a CIO, maybe in a startup, and today’s IT Function is complicated so need to check you’re aligned with a leading industry-standard for IT Functions.
- You’re a CIO and want to unearth as many challenges and opportunities for your IT Function as possible.
- You’re a CIO and under pressure from the Board/Business to implement a significant change (e.g. new platform) but need to ensure your IT Function will be ready to implement, manage and operate it effectively.
Benefit from an industry-standard Health Check
- You’re a CIO and you want to align/re-align your leadership team with a common strategic direction (with minimal effect to your relationship with them).
- You’re a CIO and know your IT Function needs to improve its maturity but you want some impartial advice as to how, where, why and in what order.
- You’re a CIO and are embarking on a new IT strategic journey but it’s going to be expensive doing it yourself and more expensive if engaging external consultants to support.
Prepare for IT Strategy Upgrade
- You’re a CIO and engaging (expensive) external consultants (or sets thereof) who will (each) want you to spend a significant amount of time doing ‘Discovery’ but you can’t afford the time, cost or risk that it is incomplete, too narrow or overlapping,
- You’re a CIO with a number of change initiatives underway but want to check you are minimising the risk of unintended consequences, or contention that leads to delays and destroys Business Cases & Benefits.
- You’re a CIO but fear that any external consultants will use ‘get-out’ clauses in contracts to extract more of your hard-won budget one way or other.
Minimize Change Costs
Your Benefits
How much do you value these Benefits?
Basic Benefits
| Enablers - Enables you: |
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| ✔ To see the wood for the trees’ relative to a leading industry-standard framework |
| ✔ To make conscious decisions as to where priorities should be focussed |
| ✔ To better understand the risks behind what is not prioritised |
| Cost - from ~£10,000 |
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| ✔ A fixed-price service |
| ✔ Less expensive than most external consultancies that would also likely extract more through unmanaged dependencies and assumptions |
BAUD Benefits
| Baseline |
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| ✔ A Baseline of your IT Function against what an industry-standard IT Function should consider (even if there is a conscious decision not to implement at this time) |
| Assessment |
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| ✔ An Assessment, both quantitative and qualitative, against an industry-standard to determine where you are (As-Is) and where you want/need to be (To-Be) |
| Understanding |
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| ✔ How your IT Function compares to an industry standard: |
| ✔ To unearth hidden problems |
| ✔ To make more proactive/less reactive decisions |
| ✔ To put you on the front-foot to enable and drive Business, rather than service Business |
| ✔ To minimise any de-railing surprises for existing/near-future work |
| Discovery Pack |
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| ✔ Can be used for any planned improvement or transformation involving any 3rd-party |
| ✔ Provides a simple, single-launchpad on which to base proposals, have open & frank discussions (and contracts) with eyes wide open |
Package Details
You will receive 2 linked assessments with different service options:
- A “Black-Box” Assessment – design factors that determine how the CIO’s IT Function should look
- A “White-Box” Assessment – how the CIO’s IT Function currently does look (governance capabilities, practices, technologies, maturity levels)
Illustrative Service Packages
Footnotes
1 - ‘Indicative Price (excl. VAT)’: These are based on an optimum balance of breadth vs. depth for a quick, effective service. This is not a full drains-up, deep-dive audit. Adding extra depth in any area (e.g. doing a deeper dive into Enterprise Architecture or Portfolio Management) can be discussed but these will affect the duration, customization and hence price of the service engagement.
2 - ‘Client Participant Qty’: The size of a leadership team is obviously variable. The current illustrations are based on a leadership team of 6 (including the CIO). A different quantity = A different price.
* - ‘Grouped CIO Leadership Team’ groups: One group is expected to include the CIO. I.e. in this illustration, the CIO will not be interviewed separately.
3 - ‘Additional’ BAUD: Not included in illustrative package prices due to too many variables (e.g. workshop objective, repackaging findings, capturing workshop output). E.g. for ‘repackaging findings’: the CIO’s debrief will be brutally honest and not dressed up for presentation; expanding the audience will likely require content to be desensitized. However, the prices for the 1-day workshop will start from £4,000 (assuming some repackaging required).
4 - ‘Additional’ GCI Index: See The Game-Changing Culture, specifically the Individual View and Team View.
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If you contact us, we have a extended version that we would love to walk you through.