Strategy + IT + Building
CIO also covers the pairing of IT and physical office space –
Today, however, as tech demands grow ever more complex and more important to the bottom line, CIOs are finding that it pays to be actively involved in corporate real estate decisions from the very beginning. By doing so, they not only have the opportunity to tailor the design of a new facility to meet their company’s current and future technology needs, they also are able to do so at a time when it is relatively easy to make changes: on paper and before construction has started.
And if you do it right from the beginning, you don’t have to worry about this –
Once the decision was made to move, says Novak, the first step was understanding in a comprehensive way the firm’s current and future tech needs. This led to an intensive multiyear program, wherein just about every aspect of the firm’s tech operations was subjected to a rigorous analysis in order to establish optimum benchmarks for a new building.
But now that the effort is underway it looks like they’ve got the right idea in mind – flexibility, resiliency and efficiency. The article is littered with interesting specifics.
-Shlok
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