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Are you ready to transition the manner in which IT delivers business value? COBIT 5 explained at the itSMF USA Chicago January 5 meeting

Change is hitting us from all directions - from Cloud computing, the virtualization of everything, iPads, iPods, Android devices, cyber attacks and cyber-security threats. Technology advances and challenges that often come with them are not the only changes on the horizon. The new "digital natives"...

Posted to CA Clarity PPM Insights (Weblog) by Robert Stroud on 12-30-2011
Are you being seduced by metrics?

I recently hosted a panel at the itSMF Australian Conference on linking data and metrics to the business to show business value. The standing room only crowd asked questions for the whole hour including: "how do I get metrics from the cloud?" or "how do we not become data junkies?"...

Posted to CA on Service Management (Weblog) by Robert Stroud on 08-22-2011
Focus on the target is critical!

Day 1 of INSIGHTS 2011 is in the books. Woven through the many and varied conversations today were comments about the amazingly motivational session by Afterburner . "Empower with Flawless Execution" was their theme and it resonated brilliantly with the entire audience at the event. "Flawless...

Posted to CA on Service Management (Weblog) by Robert Stroud on 06-28-2011
Service Management is a fundamental pillar for the cloud

I have written much over the last 24 months about the value of cloud computing and the inevitability that this will be fundamental to the delivery of technology enabled business services. Following the recent, well-documented cloud outages including Amazon Web Services and the Sony Playstation Network...

Posted to CA on Service Management (Weblog) by Robert Stroud on 05-02-2011
ITIL without COBIT controls is a waste of time

How does an organization keep up with the rapid increase in change, manage risk, ensure transparency and ensure compliance while at the same time ensuring agility to meet the business requirements? With the focus on cost reduction over the past two years, we have squeezed out all available costs, leveraged...

Posted to CA on Service Management (Weblog) by Robert Stroud on 04-04-2011
Is IT really delivering benefits to the business?

Is your organization guilty of wasting IT expenditure? Do you communicate value back to the business in terms they can relate? Are you transparent in terms of expenditure, priorities and delivery against initial forecasts and estimations? It is not a new phenomenon but even today, more than 20% of IT...

Posted to CA on Service Management (Weblog) by Robert Stroud on 02-17-2011
Delivering operational effectiveness and efficiency with demand rapidly increasing

If you believe all the current hype in the media, we are heading out of recession and although effective cost management remains important, innovation is a critical deliverable for the business. To drive innovation, most businesses will leverage technology. It's a frustrating juxtaposition. There...

Posted to CA on Service Management (Weblog) by Robert Stroud on 02-15-2011
What does Winnipeg Canada, snow, ISACA and Risk Management have in common?

It was my honor and privilege to present last week at the ISACA Winnipeg chapter in Canada where winter has already arrived with a vengeance. The topic for my session was "Establishing Effective ERM of IT: Implementation and Operational Issues of the New ‘Risk IT Framework" , a session that...

Posted to CA on Service Management (Weblog) by Robert Stroud on 11-29-2010
Follow the money - how to execute Service Portfolio Management.

In a previous life I was helping forwarding, transportation, wholesale and cash management businesses to move from traditional costing methods to activity based. I always had to build and implement these models in business warehouse systems outside of the ERP system. The past years I've seen similar...

Posted to CA on Service Management (Weblog) by Jan Christiansson on 11-17-2010
Governing and Managing the Operational Environment With COBIT and ITIL

Almost 10 years ago I started delivering a session called "COBIT and ITIL, competitive or complimentary?" The session was prefaced on the premise that some had shared with me that the frameworks were competitive, we all know that they are not and they have differing roles in an organization...

Posted to CA on Service Management (Weblog) by Robert Stroud on 11-09-2010

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