Forrester Research

Back In Black: Planning And Executing Your Post-Recession Initiatives

March 17-18, 2010

Dallas, Texas

Overview

Ian Oliver, Infrastructure & Operations Professional

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Postponed, delayed, curtailed, or outright canceled — you heard these words too often in the past 18 months. But as the global economy recovers, your company wants to come out of the starting gate fast with new applications and new market initiatives. Is your firm’s infrastructure ready to answer the call? Will you need to refresh network, server, or storage gear to meet the demand? Should you consider cloud or other strategic outsourcing alternatives? Do you have the skills you need to leverage new virtualization and automation tools? Can you finally fulfill that long-held dream of transforming the infrastructure and operations (I&O) function from an organization based on technology silos to a true service delivery team? These are the tough questions you need to prepare for as 2010 arrives.

This year’s I&O Forum will focus on the enormous tasks of planning, prioritizing, justifying, and carefully executing the wide range of people, process, and technology projects needed to get your firm “back in the black.” Specifically, the Forum will answer questions such as:

How will I&O drive a fast recovery for firms by planning and prioritizing infrastructure initiatives that best align with business goals?
How will I&O teams adapt and apply the recessionary behaviors of business case justification and financial acumen and tune them to the new norm for communicating with business leaders?
How will I&O assess the post-recession readiness of its infrastructure to meet current and future business needs?