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Future State

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Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read Chapters 5 and 6 in the Eiras and Scott (2010) Practical CIO: A Common Sense Guide for Successful IT Leadership e-book and the High (2015) and Mårtensson (2006) articles. You will need to research one additional scholarly resource in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library to support your work in this assignment.

You will be including revised content from this assignment in your Integrative IT Strategic Plan final assignment. You may wish to review the instructions included for the Integrative IT Strategic Plan in Week Six prior to completing work on this assignment to see how it fits into the overall final assignment.

In this assignment you will assess the future needs of the organization in your chosen scenario based on the Current State section and the organization’s goals you identified in Week 2 for the initiative described in your challenge scenario.

First, you will assess possible infrastructure needs, personnel requirements, and organizational issues that the company may face in its future state integrating enterprise technology management competencies.

• Create an assessment of the major components that will comprise the future state of the infrastructure that will support your selected IT challenge scenario.
  • Develop high level diagrams of the organization’s IT structure, including major infrastructure elements that apply to the challenge, and diagrams of all reporting structures in IT.

Then, you will synthesize ethical and organizational leadership concepts in an enterprise plan that includes future management and motivational strategies focusing on change management issues during the transition between the current state and the future state of the organization. Consider the impact changes will have on the people in the organization both from a job perspective as well as the impact on the individuals themselves. Consider the best ways to communicate any sensitive changes.

• Develop an assessment of the future state personnel resource levels.
  • Provide an analysis of the personnel resources expected for future work levels.
  • Include an evaluation of the future competencies and skills anticipated in the areas related to the challenge.
  • Identify any deficiencies in the skills required for future operations.
  • Create a realistic plan for addressing redundant jobs and/or personnel.
  • Construct a plan for communicating transitions to affected employees.
  • Create a high-level plan combining ethical organizational leadership concepts for continued employee engagement and motivation through the anticipated changes of the enterprise plan.
• Provide an overview of the resources required for future IT projects related to the challenge.
• Provide an assessment of any anticipated macro organizational issues that may impact the future state of IT’s organization or operations.

The Future State paper

• Must be a minimum of three to four double-spaced pages [900-1,200 words] in length (not including diagrams, title page, or references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.) resource.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least three scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.) guide.
• (Links to an external site.)Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Writing Center for specifications.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

High, P. (2015, April 6). The World Bank Group’s board-level CIO transforms IT (Links to an external site.). Forbes. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2015/04/06/t…

• Collaboration with external entities can help organizations leverage leading edge technology while supporting diverse user populations with flexible and job-friendly tools. This article looks at forward thinking technology and how bringing it in-house can streamline global organizations.
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Mårtensson, A. (2006). A resource allocation matrix approach to IT management. Information Technology and Management, 7(1), 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1007/s10799-006-5727-8

• The full-text version of this article is available through the ProQuest database in the University of Arizona Global Campus
  Library. The author of this article provides a perspective on allocating resources to a portfolio of projects. This presents a model for allocating resources according to the type of needs the organization (or project) is experiencing.