Episode 7

The Smart IT Framework Overview

Published on: 12th September, 2023

On this episode of The Smart IT Podcast, I did an overview of the Smart IT Framework. Smart IT is an approach to getting the important things done by transforming the way traditional IT thinks, works, and leads. It supports the disruption of the status quo, simplifies the complex, and mitigates risk. This is the next generation of information technology.

This approach models a different way of thinking by framing principles on how we work. It is much more than a play on the mnemonic of SMART goals. It goes beyond a sense of natural intelligence or being good in school. It’s a way of thinking and working that is open to everyone in IT.

This Smart approach to IT is a construct for the profession of information technology. It frames the conceptual aspects of thinking about one’s role in the larger organization and the nature of the work itself. It illuminates the larger forces shaping the drivers of the challenges we face and the creation of new opportunities. This is a guide to inspiring the change that is needed in our professional world.

Smart IT is a way of working and being. It is about being conscious of our environments, new enablers, and opportunities to help our organizations.

IT teams can leverage this framework to see useful information other people can’t see or don’t notice. They then draw accurate, useful conclusions from that information. These teams design useful goals that take advantage of the information. Finally, they create an efficient and effective plan of action to attain these goals.

Smart IT is resilient, agile, and thoughtful. Smart IT can be viewed from the perspective of four dimensions: purpose, development, intentionality, and realization.

Show Links

William D. Reed on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cciewill/

Smart IT info: https://www.williamreed.info

Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thesmartitpodcast

Podcast Homepage: https://the-smart-it-podcast.captivate.fm/

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The Smart IT Podcast
Where IT explores what's next...
The Smart IT Podcast, where IT professionals can assemble and hear from each other, industry leaders, thought leaders, and those in adjacent fields to collaborate and learn from each other and explore what’s next for IT.

The Smart IT Podcast explores what’s next for IT as it continues to find ways to get the important things done for our organizations.
Preparing for the next decade, we need to think differently about how we approach our work to continue to thrive into the future.

Smart IT is an approach, conceptual framework, and development model to getting the important things done by transforming the way traditional IT thinks, works, and leads. It supports the disruption of the status quo, simplifies the complex, reduces uncertainty, and improves risk mitigation.

There has never been more pressure to deliver for our organizations; but I know IT is up to the challenge.

That will require IT to lead by working smarter. Let’s do it together.

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William D. Reed

As someone who has spent decades bridging the gap between those who build solutions and the people who need them,I’ve seen firsthand why so many great ideas fail—not because they aren’t innovative, but because they never truly reach or work for the people they were meant to help.

Today, through my work at Willway Labs and my Frontline Innovation framework, I help enterprise leaders, product teams, and innovators dismantle real human problems at the frontline—where solutions are actually experienced, adopted, and trusted.
Because innovation isn’t complete when you launch… it’s complete when it works in someone’s life.

What I do is help organizations close that gap—so their ideas don’t just exist…they deliver real value.