Experience is a great teacher - Why not learn from mine?
Greg Knight, drawing on over 15 years' international experience in CIO and CTO roles, has teamed up with Oral Roberts University in Tulsa Oklahoma, to deliver insightful training aimed at helping you succeed in IT, and rapidly advance your career.
Greg Knight is the author of the book "Bringing Order Out of Chaos in IT", which some CIOs are calling a "Blueprint" for how to handle many of the tasks in CIO and CTO roles. He is taking key chapters from his book, performing a "deep dive" on them, and turning them into insightful training modules.
In his words: "Experience is a great teacher. Why not learn from mine?"
In addition to the University courses, IT Done Right creates and delivers custom courses according to your businesses' needs. Please get in touch to learn more.
Legacy Software Modernization - Without Breaking the Bank!
Do you want to know how to drastically reduce the cost of legacy software modernization? Greg Knight brings over 15 years of experience in CIO and CTO roles. His strategies often reduce the cost of legacy software modernization, sometimes by a factor of 10, with the same business benefits. Free booklet included with course.
Greg says that there is a large amount of legacy software being used in the IT industry - particularly by banks, insurance companies, and custom service providers. Some of this has been around for 20 years, and in many cases, the documentation is out of date, and unique knowledge exists only in the heads of key individuals.
Some companies are basing their entire operation on IT technology and software that is 10-20 years old, and the replacement cost is prohibitive. One major European manufacturing company spent over $30Million upgrading their legacy software, and they shared with me that whenever they wanted to do something, the first step was to by-pass the new system. What a waste!
Another major PLC wanted to modernize their retail platform, but told me that there was nobody left in the company who actually knew how it worked.
A typical challenge faced by most companies looking at legacy software modernization, is that the big-5 consulting companies will present them with a multi-million dollar bill. In some cases, this may be appropriate, but in many cases, this is neither desirable, nor affordable.
So, clearly there is a need in the industry for "Modernizing Legacy Software - Without Breaking the Bank!"
Drawing on my background in CIO and CTO roles with companies of all sizes, along with my experience as a product designer with IBM, I have led many companies in the USA and internationally through successful software modernization. I have been able to drastically reduce the cost of the modernization, sometimes by a factor of 10.
This course will introduce you to the methods I have used, and the approaches I have taken, to be successful in this area.
Summary Course Contents
- Upgrading Legacy Software - Drivers and Hinderances
- Underlying Factors
- Is Your IT Department Holding back Your Business?
- Recommended Approach
- Creating Your Modernization Team
- Defining Your Modernization Technology
- Upgrade Strategies
- Examples
- Etc.
If you want to save your company some money, develop your IT skills, increase your value to your company, and progress your IT career, we recommend you take this course.
Why Outsourcing Fails, and How to Fix It
Gartner says that 45% of Outsourcing programs are considered a failure. After 20 years of successful IT outsourcing, I have created a training course designed to help you tackle exactly this issue and succeed in your IT outsourcing.
Looking at many outsource ventures, the key reasons for failure or under-performance are:
- Wrong vision / goals for the outsource
- Wrong products outsourced – beyond the capabilities of the vendor to meet the client’s overall needs fore that product.
- Wrong outsource partner.
- Poor contracts – do not adequately defend the client.
- Wrong expectations – too much focus on flashy sales PowerPoints, and not enough focus on real delivery capability.
- Wrong staffing – offshore personnel not meeting expectations.
- Bad business model. Model not thoroughly researched & implemented and therefore not performing as needed.
- Wrong governance, leadership, management, etc.
- Poor execution. Services delivered not up to spec.
All of this can be summarized by just 2 words:
INADEQUATE PREPERATION
The goal of this course is to help you prepare, so that you can
- Make a success of Outsourcing right from the start.
- Or fix Outsourcing that is already broken.
This course will introduce you to the methods I have used, and the approaches I have taken, to be successful in this area.
Summary Course Contents
- Vision and Goals
- Strategy
- Choosing the Right Staffing Model
- Choosing the Right Products
- Choosing the Right Partner(s)
- Managing Organizational Change
- Knowledge Transfer
- Metrics
- Etc.
If you want to save your company some money, develop your IT skills, increase your value to your company, and progress your IT career, we recommend you take this course.
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IT Done Right, LLC is a Management Solutions firm, led by Greg Knight, specializing in Helping Businesses Succeed Through ITSM. We bring extensive IT expertise to solve our clients most difficult problems. Our range of industries includes Banking & Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Aerospace & Defense, Healthcare, Insurance, Pharmaceutical, Marketing, Educational Testing, Security, and (of course) Information Technology.
We are a Management Consultancy firm with extensive experience of the broad range of challenges faced by Businesses today. We help Businesses Succeed by Transforming their IT & PMO organizations through:
- 101 Executive Coaching - Helping You Succeed.
Do you have a thorny problem that you just can't shake? Maybe talking it over with a seasoned consultant can help you through? - Seminars - Helping Leaders Succeed.
Learn from our years of successful consulting in CIO/CTO/VP roles with companies of all sizes. Learn how to avoid pitfalls that every senior executive faces. - Training - Helping Teams Succeed.
No matter how good a team is, there is always room for improvement. Our training sessions can save companies hundreds of thousands of dollars, and months of work, just by learning from people who have done it before. - Embedded Leadership - Helping Businesses Succeed.
Working alongside your current teams, serving as an integral part of your organization, we provide leadership, experience, problem solving, strategy, and innovation, to permanently resolve the problems your organization is facing.