The Ascent

This blog entry was originally posted on: The Imperative Blog

I recently attended a GCIO/OMG event in Washington, DC titled “Green Awareness Information Day”. I helped to facilitate one of the round-table discussions on sustainability which I found to be rather interesting and energizing.  We had some amazing speakers from the federal government who explained the direction that the current administration is going in with regards to green & sustainability and that is where I once again recognized that simplicity is again at the center of our desires & efforts.  This gentleman was explaining how the federal government is in need of the IT community to help it with reporting on green / sustainability metrics. The problem is that there aren’t any good models established to do so and that because the data is either non-existent or dispersed all over the IT environment, the task to report on green progress is far to complex for them to accomplish alone.

I am working with some of the thought leaders at OMG to help design and promote a Green Business Maturity Model (GBMM) so that the IT community can deliver a solution that is being sought after by the federal government and many other publicly traded organizations.  It didn’t take long for me to see that there was tremendous opportunity to leverage the same concepts of a CMS/CMDB design to address an implementation of GBMM.  Once the GBMM is defined, the implementation effort comes down to the aggregation and federation of data from disparate sources very much like those demanded by an IT Service Management implementation. We are hopeful that we will be able to leverage the principles of a CMS structure to address the sustainability needs of the IT industry at large.

Stay tuned and please contact me if you are interested in working with me on my effort of creating a Sustainable Service Management Model based on GBMM.

This blog entry was originally posted on: The Imperative Blog

Hi everyone,

This is just a quick post to keep things fresh. First off, the book is finally available for purchase at your favorite book seller.

It has been a busy few weeks for Glenn and I talking with people about the book as well as doing presentations and interviews.  Glenn has been traveling around the country as well as internationally talking with his clients and we have received tremendous positive feedback so far on the book.

We jointly delviered the key note address at the annual Lehigh-Delaware Valley itSMF LIG conference and again got very positive feedback from everyone in attendance. We are very excited about the feedback so far and look forward to working directly with many of you on ITSM and CMS/CMDB solutions.  If you are interested in seeing the presentation that we delivered at the LDV LIG conference, you can download it from the book’s website www.cmdbimperative.com .

I’m currently preparing for my next presentation which will be at the OMG’s Technical meeting in Washington DC on March 23rd. I will be leading a roundtable discussion on sustainability with regards to Business Operations as part of the “Green Computing Information Day” (http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/agendas/dc-09/gcio-agenda.htm).  I truly beleive that we can leverage the work already laid out by the DMTF’s CMDBf specification and the work currently being done by the GCIO around the GBMM to put in place a CMS that not only supports ITSM as we traditionally have seen it but also supports the requirements that a sustainability model would need.