Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Ramp-up plan for a Mobility CoE

Many small and large organizations are trying to place their feet in the booming market of Enterprise / Consumer Mobility or mobile applications. While the complexity of creating a small application is pretty simple compared to solving big ticket IT problems, but the dynamics of this world of Mobility poses the challenges of fast scaling, right sustenance model, various engagement models etc.

In the following article, I am trying to present a depiction of the challenges and a model growth strategy which the organizations might adopt to achieve a strategic goal of ramp up a 100 member team in a span of 1year. The figures below are imaginary and in reality will be governed by organization's strategic focus areas and growth target.

Challenges are plenty !!

 
Business Plan and approval
Infrastructure Setup
Knowledge Management framework
Quality Management
Operations Management
Business Continuity Plan and DR
Risk Management
 
Effective planning and execution hold the key to success

We should define very short term, medium term and long term goals to effectively implement the plans and measure the progress at periodic intervals

30 day plan
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    90 day plan

180 day plan – Focus on implementation
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Knowledge Management Framework
 
While the plans are implemented, there should be a right structure for knowledge management framework or sub-CoEs within the Mobility CoE to meet the demand of the customers and also to keep the team abreast with the latest happenings in the world of technology. 
 













Infrastructure Management challenges
1. Seating places across locations
2. Lab setup and access across locations
Hardware procurement
Software licensing
Network setup
3. Security considerations/ leased line setups for ODC access 
 
Operations Management challenges

Deal Pipeline Management and utilization of resources
Alignment with HR and contractors for fast demand management – ready reference of talent pool.
Alignment with Sales teams and embedding of target for mobile sales in account’s sales target.
Legal counsel for Agreements with Alliance partners, compliance with external country laws
Overseas operations
Pool of key resources of Consultants/ Tech Archs/Tech leads to make them travel-ready to customer places
Business Continuity Plan / Disaster Recovery plan