How Would You Benchmark an IT/IS Department? 144
ferretworks asks: "Our IS/IT department has been asked by our CEO to find a way to benchmark ourselves against IS/IT departments from other companies with similar technologies (none specific). This sounds like an innocent enough request, but diving into it has made me realize that this is, not necessarily undiscovered country, but a desolate one and rarely visited. So, my poll to the community is: In your Opinion, what is best way to benchmark an IS/IT department and what categories/sub categories would you base your judgment and ratings on?"
No benchmarks! (Score:3, Funny)
Consulting Firm. (Score:4, Funny)
Make up an "average" for these three sets in which your company does better in most metrics, take the $250,000 you got from this consulting gig and live on it while you go around with your initial report selling it to other companies.
This idea is so stupid and useless that only a consulting firm would offer this service.
TPS Reports (Score:3, Funny)
the golden formula (Score:4, Funny)
x2 multiplier for Linux install on desktop
x5 multiplier for BSD install on desktop + 1 free very much needed hooker
x10 multiplier for *nix install on managements desktop
Lather rinse repeat for each member of IT department.
Add them together, if the department has somehow manipulated these values to = the number 42, give them all a free car If all of these values are stored in text files encrypted with 4096 bit encryption and spread across a 3x redundant cluster of 10 load balancing servers so that this value can be calculated constantly to the 10 millionth digit....