Bryan Drake will present and lead discussion on how the Value of IT is better understood when IT Finance and Enterprise Architecture partner together.
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Dale Bryan Drake
Enterprise Architect
Unisys Corporation
Bryan is currently an Enterprise Architect for Unisys on the Commonwealth of Virginia Server Storage and Data Center contract in Richmond Virginia. With over 20+ years of IT experience across multiple technologies, he is involved in almost every facet of this 6 year IT modernization and operation engagement. Bryan was the primary architect of the new Private Cloud implementation that will enable the Commonwealth to achieve the virtualization of thousands of servers, driving cost savings, and improved agility. Before his current role with Unisys, he was an Enterprise Architect for Northrop Grumman Corporation and led a multi-year IT spend predictability project. Bryan holds a CTMBE certification from the TBM Council and multiple IFTMA certifications and is a recurring presenter at ITFMA conferences.
Does defining actionable business services sound like a near-impossible task? Is it really worth the effort and time investment?
Join David Van Deusen, recently of IT Finance for the Controller of NY State, as he shares the story of their services journey and how this helped the organization better understand IT Value.
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David Van Deusen recently retired from the NYS Office of the State Comptroller after nearly 38 years of service, thirty of which were as an IT professional. During the last 6 years of his career, he was the Director over all of the IT Business functions of his organization and focused much of his time on IT Financial Management. His objective was to provide transparency to the business as to where their IT dollar was being spent, as well as to help them find ways to ensure that the value was worth the spend.
AppTCO can be a lot of work to achieve,but the results and insights can have great value when done right. Join us for a panel discussion. Come to learn from others, or to share you AppTCO story.
Join Cathy Wagner and Callie Martin from the MNIT ( Minnesota State IT) team for a case study and discussion on how having insights into Internal Transparency can have an impact on the IT Budgeting process and the resulting Budget, especially in the area of labor-management and planning.
Cathy Wagner is a financial program manager with MNIT Services for the State of Minnesota. She manages and directs enterprise financial programs and projects with sensitive financial data in the areas of strategic planning, budgeting, rate setting, invoicing, and reporting. She develops governance and technical data solutions based on federal and state fiscal policies. She was worked in a variety of roles managing public data for state agencies including enterprise-level IT financial data, educational testing, and statewide accountability data. She was originally a French teacher in a large suburban school district and has traveled extensively across Europe. She is very much enjoying the current opportunity afforded all state employees to work from home but wishes it were under better circumstances.
Callie Martin is a Management Analyst who is experienced in financial analysis, modeling, and benchmarking, using a variety of data sources to create cohesive data presentations to various end-users. Well versed in data verification and formatting for integration into third-party software systems, and skilled in data entry, database maintenance, and data visualization.
Ginger Allen is the Sr. Director of IT Business Management Office for GuideWell Holdings, the parent company for Florida Blue (the Florida-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield plan). After more than 20 years in public accounting and professional consulting, Ginger joined Florida Blue where her accountabilities have ranged from leading the traditional GAAP & Statutory accounting functions, Corporate FP&A, Cost Accounting. Ginger led the enterprise effort to bring six sigma continuous improvement methodologies into the company and to lead major cost optimizations efforts across the enterprise. It was in this role Ginger realized that IT spend was one of the most obscure and least understood major types of spend for the enterprise. This led Ginger to move into her current role in IT with a dedication to bringing transparency and then optimization to the IT organization with an annual spend of nearly half a billion dollars.
A service valuestream mindset and view of IT for the organization is not just a finance exercise, it is a shift in thought for the whole enterprise. Enterprise Architecture can be a key partner in socializing this change and driving value for IT.
Interested in exploring and improving the IT Partnerships you need for success outside of the IT Finance Office?
Join Dale Bryan Drake for a discussion on how the EA and ITFM partnership can transform an organization, based on his personal work experiences.
No IT Finance Director should be designing the service cost model for their organization in isolation.
Be sure to RSVP and grab your seat for this session of the IT Value Summit on Tuesday, Sep 8. This session is just one of a series through the day, all focused at discussing and maturing our concepts of the value of IT – how to define, measure, and communicate the value provided every day.
The entire Summit is virtual and Free, to support everyone struggling through COVID budget impacts. We look forward to having you join the discussion and growing the knowledge in our community.
When you are up to your elbows in data and models and troubleshooting, it can be hard to focus on the larger arc of your journey. What will actually happen when your consumers are presented with a set of services that are actionable levers, instead of flat IT allocations?
OLD WAY versus NEW WAY written on the white arrows, dilemmas concept.
Join David van Deusen in his session on Services as Actionable Levers during the IT Value Summit on Tuesday, Sept 8. David took IT for NY State Comptroller’s office from chaos to operational services that drive their budgeting process- saving time and sanity for everyone. This is a not to be missed session and his practical lessons apply to organizations in both the public and private sectors.
Expecting your customers to change their behavior without levers is an act of futility
Be sure to RSVP and grab your seat for this session of the IT Value Summit on Tuesday, Sep 8. This session is just one of a series through the day, all focused at discussing and maturing our concepts of the value of IT – how to define, measure, and communicate the value provided every day.
The entire Summit is virtual and Free, to support everyone struggling through COVID budget impacts. We look forward to having you join the discussion and growing the knowledge in our community.
Maturing your data and processes to the point of supporting a useful Application Total Cost of Ownership ( AppTCO) is a problem that is shared at organizations around the globe.
The investment is not small, but the benefits can be even bigger.
If you are contemplating or planning to expand your journey to this maturity point, we highly recommend that you join us for a fireside chat with Wyndham Boonzaier, the Total Cost of Owner in the Service & Supplier Management: Enablement Office at absa, one of the largest financial services organizations in the country. We are so pleased that Wyn has agreed to join this discussion from home in South Africa, even though it will be a late call for him.
If you are looking for honest feedback about the real work involved in successfully modeling and managing the data needed for a useful AppTCO, you do not want to miss this discussion.
Wyndham has agreed to be frank and honest about the journey and the real work it takes to put this critical set of models and metrics in place. Come prepared with you hardest questions and hurdles.
Have an AppTCO success story of your own? We are looking forward to having you join the discussion as well.
Be sure to RSVP and grab your seat for this session of the IT Value Summit on Tuesday, Sep 8. This session is just one of a series through the day, all focused at discussing and maturing our concepts of the value of IT – how to define, measure, and communicate the value provided every day.
The entire Summit is virtual and Free, to support everyone struggling through COVID budget impacts. We look forward to having you join the discussion and growing the knowledge in our community.
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