Everything about your job has changed. It’s time your metrics did too.
Craig Williams, CIO of telecommunications networking company Ciena, knows exactly how his IT team will be evaluated by the company’s leaders in 2019. They will look at a wide range of metrics that include things like talent management (days to fill open position, number of employees completing management development), profit participation (revenue per IT employee), and change management (rate of adoption for new social media, data, and collaboration tools).
It’s a big change from how things used to be. “IT used to be primarily measured on things like uptime and meeting service-level agreements,” he says. IT would shoot for targets like 99.999 percent availability, and have goals for number of tickets resolved. These days, IT still keeps track of those metrics “but we do this for ourselves, not necessarily for our [internal] customers,” Williams says. “They’re trusting in our expertise, so their needs have shifted toward value, business enablement, and profit contribution interests.”
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