Biography Mr. Oetringer is an Infrastructure Consultant for EDS and author of the book “The IT Strategy Management Process”. His areas of expertise include knowledge management, capacity management, availability management, problem / change management, storage management, project management, IT architectures and IT strategies. During his 19 years at EDS, Mr. Oetringer worked 12 years in the interaction space between central departments and data centres to bring global technology strategies in line with local needs, and getting those strategies executed by the local organizations. Mr. Oetringer integrated the effective techniques into the IT Strategy Management Process. Mr. Oetringer was born in Germany and has lived in The Netherlands since 1987. He holds a degree of Diplom Mathematiker from Fachhochschule Giessen-Friedberg, Germany.

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The IT Strategy Management Process: Enabling healthy strategies in complex environments
Today's IT environments are faced with a number of challenges. Topics such as, Governance, Architecture, Best Practices, Agile Enterprise, Sarbanes-Oxley and more are at the top of corporate agendas, trying to address those challenges. While each topic addresses a specific area, the interaction space between the topics and between organizations, processes and locations remains a grey area. The IT Strategy Management Process is positioned for this space. Some of its characteristics include:

• One central repository in which the strategies, standards, architectures, etc. are storage and managed
• Target audiences are driven for compliance with strategies and standards and for the re-use of best practices
• Corrective actions are triggered as issues emerge
• The health of the strategies, standards and architectures is visible at any time