Resources
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Ebooks
Access our downloadable ebooks on a specific technology or business topic, offering comprehensive insights and practical advice. This content is useful for ICT executives and their teams as it provides in-depth knowledge and guidance, enabling them to understand complex issues, explore new opportunities, and implement effective strategies.
The CIO Handbook
This ebook offers CIOs the critical tools and insights to lead their enterprises through best practices, skills optimisation and more aggressive innovation.
Disaster Recovery Must Work!
This ebook shows ICT teams and other business departments how they can work together to improve disaster recovery maturity.
Programme and Project Maturity
This ebook helps ensure that your organisation meets intended outcomes through consistency and efficiency in managing projects and programs.
Zero Trust Mindset
This is the busy executive's comprehensive guide to zero trust.
A Guide to Modernising Your CRM
This ebook guides you through the complexities of modernising your CRM.
Low-Code Comparison Report
This ebook shows you how to revolutionise your modern enterprise architecture with low-code solutions.
Low-Code Excellence
This ebook shows you how to build a low-code culture and centre of excellence within your organisation.
Toolkits
Our toolkits include a collection of resources, such as templates, guides, and checklists. This content is crucial for ICT executives and their teams as it equips them with practical tools to manage their projects, streamline processes, and ensure successful outcomes.
Internal Customer Survey Toolkit
A guide for developing efficient internal customer surveys with a helpful, customisable sample document that can be used as a starting point.
Project Board Induction Toolkit
A playbook for project managers and stakeholders to support project boards and teams in understanding their roles and responsibilities, along with some common considerations for project boards.
Mergers and Acquisitions Toolkit
A guide for CIOs to plan a successful merger or demerger with comprehensive guidelines and checklists.
Achieving ICT Project Prioritisation Toolkit
Project Attractiveness Evaluation: this kit includes a tool for calculating project attractiveness, project achievability, a priority grid, and a project ranking summary table.
Templates
Our templates can be used as a guide for creating documents or projects. This content is valuable for ICT executives and their teams as it ensures uniformity and efficiency in document creation, saving time and resources while maintaining high standards.
Service Level Agreement Template
A customisable template for creating your own SLA's with sample components and subsections.
Project Management Office Example Prioritisation Decision Tree
A guide for PMO managers and organisational leaders in identifying and prioritising projects across the enterprise.
PMO Foundations Template Pack
This template serves as a manual for organisations aiming to set up or streamline a PMO or governance function within an ICT/digital environment.
Hybrid Work Policy Template
This template provides a quick-start hybrid work guide for organisations. It also provides guidelines for staff on how to get the most value from hybrid working.
Tenure Or Tenuity? CIO Career Management
Evaluating the Ideal CIO: Beyond Primary Performance Metrics. A guide to crafting a more holistic criteria for selecting top-tier executives.
Bridging The CIO Confidence Gap
Modern CIOs must have competencies that transcend mere technical management expertise. These are the three dimensions of IT management that modern CIOs need to master.
Infographics
Access our visually engaging infographics presenting data and insights in an easily digestible format. This content is important for ICT executives and their teams as it simplifies complex information, making it easier to understand and share key insights with stakeholders, thereby facilitating better decision-making.
AI Bill Of Rights – Cheat Sheet
Your guide to responsible and ethical AI practices.
Considering a Headless Content Management Solution? Don’t be a Headless Chicken
This infographic shows the difference between a traditional CMS and a headless CMS and pros and cons to consider for your organisation.
People Analytics: Mining Hidden Data For Innovation And To Settle Hybrid Work Debates
This infographic helps you identify the challenges people analytics Implementation so you can address them accordingly.
ITIL 4 Delivers Outcomes and Value for Customers
This 1-page infographic shows the minimum requirements for those seeking to lead ITSM progression to ITIL4 master.
Optimising Cloud Spend Management for Enterprises
This infographic shows a 4 step guide for organisation seeking to optimise their Cloud spend.
Maturity Models
Download our maturity models showing the current state and future development paths. This content is essential for ICT executives and their teams as it helps them assess their organisation’s maturity, identify areas for improvement, and plan for future growth.
Software Agents Maturity Model
Assess your software agent maturity and determine which level should be reached to fulfill your business imperatives with this maturity model.
Analytics Artificial Intelligence Maturity Model
This maturity model provides an assessment matrix in the analytics space. The proposed maturity model can be applied to any type of industry.
ITSM Maturity Model
This 1-page infographic summarises Mark Unwin's webinar on 'ITSM Maturity Assessment'. Learn the answers to your biggest ITSM questions and download the maturity model.
Data Management Maturity Model
The IBRS data management maturity model provides a framework for identifying where your organisation is currently positioned in terms of data management, and areas where it may need to improve.
Digital Ready Workforce Maturity Model
Measure your workforce's digital readiness and inform your strategic planning, policies and capability development priorities with this maturity model.
Infrastructure Maturity Model
Increased infrastructure architecture complexity makes it difficult to plan ahead. This maturity model can help you determine your organisation's current infrastructure maturity level.
Financial Management Maturity Model
Assess your organisation's financial management maturity level with this maturity model.
New-Generation Service Desk Maturity Model
Is your service desk outdated? Find out your maturity level with this comprehensive maturity model.
Software Asset Management (SAM) Maturity Model
IBRS proposes an alternative to your existing software asset management (SAM) maturity model.
Vendor Governance Maturity Model
Find out where to commence changes to improve vendor governance with this vendor governance maturity model.
Case Studies
These are articles detailing how an IT leader successfully leveraged technology to address real-world challenges and improve business outcomes. This content is crucial for ICT executives and their teams as it provides practical examples of innovative solutions, inspiring them to implement similar strategies within their organisations.Â
How Oncquest Laboratories Improved its Operations With Cloud
While many organisations look to the cloud to save money, medical laboratory firm Oncquest saw it as an opportunity to improve business operations. By moving their bespoke laboratory information management system (LIMS) to the Cloud, Oncquest rapidly unlocked the ability to develop additional functionality in their key service platform. The result is an astounding 90 per cent reduction in sample status inquiries.
How a New CIO Used Best Practices to Revamp a Diverse Conglomerate
Recommendations for new CIOs looking to identify business issues, select priorities and establish immediate wins
The Digital Metamorphosis of a Steel Company
How a new CIO revitalised a 55 year-old company digitally within a year