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Balanced Scorecard: Goals and Metrics
Goals & Metrics by Perspective
- Customer Perspective
- Internal Perspective
- Financial Perspective
- Learning & Growth Perspective
Case Study : University Community!
Customer Perspective
How can we fulfill user/customer/University expectations and needs?
GOALS (WITH OBJECTIVES/STRATEGIES):
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- Improve user experience (including ease of use, availability, accessibility and usability within the context of security and compliance)
- Measure and meet Service Levels (including establishing baselines, targets, costs, etc.) that meet customer needs
- Improve project management (including usability testing, solid timelines, communications, training, holding project managers accountable for project management standards, etc.)
- Implement Service Management Improvements (Information Technology Infrastructure Library: ITIL-Lite)
- Ensure broad representation on project and service delivery teams
- Educate and train to ensure services are used and useful
- Simplify services and access to services
- Improve communication, transparency and outreach
- Develop channels to highlight operational services (including SLAs) and products Improve project delivery (communications and training)
- Ensure two-way communication between our organization and stakeholders Establish strong communication with University strategic initiatives (through AVP for IT Initiatives)
- Maintain and expand issue and solution documentation for services
- Advance the University's strategic mission by establishing priorities in support of that mission
- Establish new governance/advising structures (maximize effectiveness in advising our organization on projects and services)
- Establish portfolio management and project prioritization policies and procedures Ensure the CIO Balanced Scorecard is aligned with the University's Mission
- Be a strategic resource and trusted partner within the University community Understand customer perspective and environment
- Collaborate with stakeholders on their strategic planning (from University level down)
- Partner with the library (including digital preservation, big data, etc.)
- Participate in University-wide enterprise risk management (ERM), policy development, and compliance initiatives
- Be a champion for emerging technologies
- Participation in creation of new national higher education standards and services
- Monitor the national environment for opportunities
- Ensure the University is positioned to take advantage of national higher education standards and services (including InCommon, Net+, etc.)
- Develop channels across the University to promote new technologies and discovering emerging needs
METRICS:
- How many SLAs were measurable and met?
- Percentage of services with SLAs
- System availability and up-time percentages
- Number and duration of planned and unplanned downtimes
- Mean time-to-resolution for incidents (P1 and P2)
- Response time to 1st communication for incidents (P1 and P2)
- Help Desk IT referrals time-to-resolution and response time
- Number of new services/strategically retired services/technologies
- Help Desk tickets per select project rollout/service upgrade/service as a whole
- Number of services monitored and to what level
Internal Perspective
How should we execute internal processes most efficiently/effectively to meet user/customer/University needs and expectations?
GOALS (WITH OBJECTIVES/STRATEGIES):
- Improve operational efficiency and effectiveness
- Mature project management and implement portfolio management
- Improve recruiting, hiring, onboarding and retaining staff and succession planning Advance asset, media, and access management
- Improve Disaster Recovery plans, ensuring inclusion of key stakeholders
- Encourage ideas for improvements from staff and stakeholders
- Eliminate redundancy of tools, processes, services (examples are backup systems, billing systems)
- Strengthen vendor management (bulk buying, service escalation, strategic alignment, etc.)
- Establish technology design standards (from router standards to service standards) Enhance service monitoring and management with automation
- Improve coordination of services and projects
- Implement Service Management Improvements (Information Technology Infrastructure Library: ITIL-Lite)
- Ensure transition to new services and retirement of old services is as smooth as possible (planned and coordinated)
- Identify project and service teams and dependencies
- Identify roles and responsibilities for projects and services including establishing Operating Level Agreements (OLAs)
- Streamline and formalize organizational processes for service delivery/changes Ensure strong communication within project and service teams
- Establish portfolio management and project prioritization policies and procedures Improve sharing of standards, policies and guidelines across CIO areas
- Improve and coordinate service delivery systems
- Encourage stronger communication and transparency across CIO areas
- Leverage governance to improve internal efficiency and effectiveness
- Increase oversight & guidance for projects & services
- Evaluate existing and identify new governance groups; optimize governance structure
- Ensure that we are operating in a safe and compliant manner
- Improve sharing of standards, policies and guidelines across CIO-areas
METRICS:
- System availability and up-time percentages
- Number and duration of planned and unplanned downtimes
- Mean time-to-resolution for incidents (P1 and P2)
- First contact resolution (% of cases resolved at the Help Desk)
- Mean time for Help Desk and other service referral resolution — IT only
- Staff turnover
- Cross-training matrix with metrics
- Number of documented processes, policies and standards
- Areas where redundancy has been eliminated
Financial Perspective
How can we be good stewards of University resources?
GOALS (WITH OBJECTIVES/STRATEGIES):
- Understand and manage service and project finances, serving as good stewards of University resources
- Develop CIO budget structure to support Cost of Services (CoS)
- Develop/revise/communicate rate structures for new or existing services
- Ensure continual analysis of CoS annually and comparison across years
- Validate Cost of Services data/definitions within CIO areas (and with peers where applicable)
- Improve project management o Improve resource planning
- Evaluate resources for projects/services undertaken and ensure benefit realization Promote sustainability practices
- Ensure sustainable funding structure for services and projects
- Participate in organizational excellence planning and implementation
- Use portfolio management to evaluate projects and services undertaken and retired Seek opportunities for new revenue streams
- Improve internal processes and enhance productivity
- Identify and evaluate opportunities to strategically source services
- Take advantage of economies of scale, new services offered in the marketplace, and commoditization, and source services accordingly
- Ensure CIO budget model supports operations, goals and objectives
- Develop and Implement multi-year budget planning (5-10 year plan)
- Refine budget accounting structure and reporting
METRICS
- Costs compared to peers (Compare costs and capabilities of services)
- Manage to approved budget
- Captured/recovered costs/budget savings (for re-deployment)
- Cost avoidance resulting from vendor negotiation for key projects
- Costs savings where redundancy has been eliminated
Learning & Growth Perspective
How can we ensure current and future capability of our workforce?
GOALS (WITH OBJECTIVES/STRATEGIES):
- Develop workforce to gain needed skills (both hard and soft skills)
- Cross-train (incorporating identification of critical skillsets)
- Develop and maintain deep current and future technical skills
- Develop presentation and communication skills
- Develop customer services skills o Ensure new and existing employees are provided with mentors as appropriate
- Promote ownership, empowerment, and appropriate risk-taking
- Develop internal staff-led training around specific topics and conferences (“lunch and learn”)
- Explore/Design CIO-area orientation for new and existing employees
- On the job experience to gain and use soft skills (leadership, culture, people skills) Identify critical certifications and number of people who certify
- Provide opportunities for further development of project management skills Establish formal and informal training
- Provide opportunities for further development of IT Service Management/ITIL knowledge and skills
- Engage staff in their own professional development
- Incorporate feedback from peer evaluations into professional development planning
- provide coaching as needed
- Promote leadership development
- Focus on succession and organizational planning
- Promote leadership development
- Work with University Human Resources to develop succession planning structure Provide opportunities for exploration of and information sharing about other roles/functions internal to the CIO area
METRICS:
- Number of training sessions given and attended (% of people trained)
- Number of certifications obtained by staff
- Number of people that attended conferences and/or training
- Percentage of staff accomplishing professional development goals
- High quality and relevant training sessions (as rated/measured by participants)
- Cross-training matrix with metrics
- Decrease in human resource single points of failure
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