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.
Posted by Andy Savvides 
