With all the time, cost and hassle put into IT and IT projects, shouldn't you be getting more value?

Discover new thinking about project design , information design and change design, that steers IT/IM projects to success. Flapping to Flying gives insights into why success is so hard to reach, and what to do about this. The thinking is crystalised into 24 mind tools that give you powerful concepts and practical techniques for implementing and supporting information technology, as well as building organisation-wide capability to create, share and exploit information.

IT-strategy and project themes

Information Vision is about how we put IT/IM into the context of how it aids the organisation and helps people meet their goals. Central to this is the focus on providing people with the information they need to do a great job and how to build business cases around this. 

Roadmap Builders deal with how we organise our thinking into an overall strategy and roadmap. The resulting programmes of work cover not just technical IT or IM actions needed, but deal with all disciplines needed to make initiatives successful.

Project Design deals with determining what the specific objectives and milestones are, who needs to be involved, what project governance looks like and what human and financial resourcing is required for the project and afterwards to ensure it delivers value.

Information Design ensures that our project delivers useful and usable interfaces and functionality to users, in line with the information vision.

Change Design covers how we engage with and involve people so that they not only understand the needs and goals of a project, but so that they also want to actively participate in the project and resulting implementation to make it successful.

So which theme is the “change management” one?
These five themes are interconnected, and it is the interaction between them that delivers change management that works.

Mind tools
We have formulated our thinking into a series of practical “mind tools” you can apply in a variety of circumstances. The tools in this book apply equally to the public and the private sector. Throughout the book you will find examples drawn from both. They do not depend on organisation size or industry, but only on the willingness to turn efforts into results that the organisation values. The tools bring to life the five Information Leadership themes– each of which gets its own part of this book.

Grant Margison and Sarah Heal

13 May 2009

 

 

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