As organizations move towards automation and digitalization, IT is transforming from a reputation as a back-office cost center to an expectation as a strategic advisor to the organization. IT planning requirements are constantly shifting to keep pace with the changing technological landscape and as a result, IT planning and budgeting is becoming increasingly complex and more critical than ever before.
In this webinar, Forrester’s Vice President and Principal Analyst Serving CIOs, Bobby Cameron, and IBM’s Digital Offering Manager, Mike Sadler, will explore the challenges IT departments are facing today and the ways in which leading organizations are driving business success through an integrated IT planning process.
In this webinar you’ll learn how integrated IT planning is helping organizations:
- Break down silos to drive operational efficiency
- Align top-down strategies with bottom-up execution
- Expand beyond IT financial management to IT value management
- Manage end-to-end business and technology connections —across customers, partners, and employees
- Move away from static annual plans and drive continuous IT planning, budgeting and forecasting
- Plan at a portfolio level —not just at a project level
Speakers
Bobby Cameron
VP & Principal Analyst, Serving CIOs
Forrester Research
Bobby Cameron serves CIOs. He is a leading expert on best practices for IT, including: business technology (BT), the empowered BT archetype, transformation from IT to BT, BT demand management, driving business innovation, business alignment, the business value of IT, BT strategic planning, IT governance, IT structure, IT/BT maturity, the marketing of IT, architecture and technology strategy, application development, IT operations, and serving the business.
Mike Sadler
Offering Management
IBM Planning Analytics - Digital Offerings
Mike Sadler, an Offering Manager for IBM's Performance Management products, has worked in the Business Analytics industry for nearly 2 decades, helping every department in companies worldwide understand how they can reduce cost, improve accuracy and drive performance by implementing proven practices to deliver speed, agility and foresight in their planning and analysis processes.
With a lens on today's digital-savvy buyers, Mike is working to deliver the frictionless discover-try-buy-adopt experience that customers have come to expect.