NHS CIO Network Group on Linkedin

I have created a CIO Network group in Linkedin. The purpose of this group is to help connect those people responsible for Health Informatics across the NHS. This group is aimed at CIOs, IT Directors and Associate Directors etc. This group is not intended to replace any of the existing internal communications mechanisms, hopefully members of this group will find it a useful tool for connecting with their peers.

If you work for the NHS in a CIO capacity, please take a look. Thanks.

Here is the link to the group http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2074660

IT Infrastructure – Roadmap or Strategy

I am taking a slightly different approach in communicating Infrastructure Strategy to CIOs that I am working with. I am taking the view that most people can work out for themselves what their desired technology/IT “end state” should be (ideally in the same place as the business want to be!). The challenge is identifying sensible routes or roadmaps to this end state from where you currently are, with the “landmarks” to look out for along the way. So, Virtualisation, Unified Communications, Cloud Computing,  Mobile/Fixed Convergence, Innovation Management, ITIL V3 etc are “landmarks” along the way to realising the Infrastructure Strategy and enabling the Business Strategy.

 … I have use this in a number of presentations recently and it seemed to go down well with the audience (CIOs/IT Directors), seems to be more intuitive and resonates with the reality of being a CIO today.

 So for me an Infrastructure Strategy is usefull but may not go far enough, a Strategy Roadmap while still being “strategic” (ie the what and why) can be more pragmatic if it suggests good (and perhaps highlights some bad) routes to take.