Held a great workshop with our executive team. We've talked a lot about the three ages of IT and the need for 'digital' to be part of the thinking so this was a good chance for a progress check. I asked each of them to place a red sticker where we are now, a yellow one for where our students need us to be, a green one indicates the target for researchers and a blue one for business operations.
It seems we are firmly in the age of the service provider. We've managed to 'put the suit on IT' but we've got a long way to go to meet the needs of generation Z!
Thanks for sharing this exercise it looks like a really useful way to get a good visual representation of where you are and where the different perspectives think you should be. It reminds me of similar techniques I have been using with Business Relationship Management maturity using this scale http://brminstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Business-Relationship-Maturity-Model.jpg next time instead of doing a bland questionnaire though I think I will get the stickers out!
ReplyDeleteJeremy Byrne
Business Relationship Manager
Loughborough University