The MoneyBall CIO

Learning the science of IT decision making

Billy's Bean

John Chayka

IT's Key Metric: Return on Business Satisfaction

  • Value driven improvement

Unstable

Firefighter

Trusted Operator

Business Partner

Innovator

Focus Area

Stakeholder engagement

What drives business satisfaction?

  • Project delivery and capacity - 22
  • Relationships - 20
  • Innovation - 16
  • Applications - 14
  • Infrastructure - 14
  • Policies - 0?

Overall satisfaction with IT = -.05 + .09 Applications + .51 Project Delivery and Capacity + .20 Infrastructure + .10 innovation -.12 Policies +.27 Relationships + .04 Capacity + {

Over time the perspective that there is a stronger Dependency on IT

Reported Importance vs. Actual Importance

Get to a base level of "good" for certain services (establishing IT value) to the IT value threshold

  • Maslovs

More mature IT departments have drastically higher satisfaction levels on the services that deliver business value

Success of projects = being "on time"

  • Projects delivered on time (r = .55)
  • Agility (r=.51)
  • Projects delivered on time and agility combined (.59)

49% of CIOs/CEOs are not aligned on IT's current performance

67% of CIOs/CEOs are unclear on the target role for IT

CEOs want to see IT do the basics before they put the Transformation into their hands

CEOs want to see Business Value and Stakeholder Satisfaction Reporting for metrics

Technology Performance and Operating Metrics are secondary

Risk and Costs are last on their list

Most Effective 7 Key Processes

  • Innovation
  • Project Management
  • Etc…