Infrastructure Strategy
Develop a robust strategy and plan for defining and managing a future-ready IT infrastructure, optimising its capacity, availability and synchronisation to enable an organisation's business operations. This involves evaluating infrastructure models and options for infrastructure components, managing infrastructure investments and facilitating the transformation toward the desired future infrastructure model
Type
Functional
Competency Area
Strategy Planning and Implementation
Levels
Support the development of and implement a strategic IT infrastructure plan, overseeing and synchronising the performance of infrastructure elements
Articulate the impact of current state of operations and challenges on the desired IT infrastructure
Establish processes or mechanisms to ensure proper set up of infrastructure components
Benchmark current quality and capacity of IT infrastructure against industry standards, IT blueprint for performance and expected organisation requirements
Monitor capacity and performance indicators on an ongoing basis, and put forth recommendations to refine plan if needed
Identify technical requirements required to support IT infrastructure
Draft infrastructure plan including hardware, software, general infrastructure aspects and their specifications
Maintain oversight of changes and updates to IT infrastructure capabilities and highlight impact on SLAs
Develop a robust infrastructure plan and model
Evaluate infrastructure gaps and the required transformation to address them
Develop a business case for various infrastructure models and deployment options
Anticipate how an organisation's infrastructure will evolve over time with technological trends and developments
Drive processes to enable adaptation of infrastructure to changing market priorities, strategies and technology
Develop plans for infrastructure capacity enhancement to support the infrastructure strategy
Propose resourcing models to support the infrastructure for critical and non-critical business areas
Define the coverage, interface and topology of infrastructure elements and their components
Synchronise infrastructure components to ensure stability, reliability and efficiency
Establish a future-ready infrastructure strategy
Make key infrastructure decisions for the business, based on a synthesis of external environment, internal priorities and related areas within the broad IT architecture
Determine a fit-for- purpose infrastructure strategy for the business
Develop a long-term roadmap to future-proof the organisation's infrastructure
Evaluate the viability of new and emerging infrastructure models for the business
Determine the most suitable infrastructure model/s for the organisation
Evaluate impact of evolving needs, operating environment and emerging market trends on infrastructure requirements
Align IT infrastructure investments with the relative importance of business lines, products and services they support
Endorse resourcing models to drive the infrastructure strategy, in ensuring business viability and sustainability
Establish sustainable and repeatable processes to facilitate ease of infrastructure transformation and adaptation to changing internal and external
environments