Chapter 9

The Business-Driven Infrastructure Design Cycle

This chapter pulls together the concepts from the rest of this book and describes the business-driven infrastructure design (BDID) model. This is meant to help the reader understand how the alignment of ICT infrastructure recommendations with strategy occurs. In addition, models for cost-estimating an infrastructure design are discussed, and implementation planning is reviewed. The need for postinfrastructure implementation review is also discussed along with ways for the design team to stay in touch with the user.

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