16 Nov. 2005
Information architecture (IA) helps IT address business needs by providing a framework to map and describe an enterprise's information assets and their relationship to processes and systems. But IA programs fail if not approached the right way. To be successful, build iteratively, focus on pain points, and execute top-down.
Optimizing The IT Portfolio For Maximum Business Value
Forrester surveyed North American IT decision-makers and interviewed users and vendors to better understand IT portfolio management best practices and optimization methods. Organizations that employ portfolio optimization demonstrate significant increased returns and greater business value from their IT investments.
Taking Your PMO To The Next Step: The Office Of The CIO
Project management offices (PMOs) have long been responsible for overseeing and developing project management expertise, but forward-thinking companies are now considering them for a new role: the office of the CIO. Leveraging the discipline and skills in successful PMOs can make IT organizations more effective in delivering what the business really needs.
Building The Business Case For APM
In a small number of firms today, IT management is using application portfolio management (APM) tools to shave 10% to 30% or more from the maintenance budget, achieving ROI within the first 12 months. These savings provide the opportunity to increase innovation capacity by 30% to 95%. Detailed application metrics allow IT management to discuss spending in business terms with system stakeholders, resulting in greatly improved business/IT relationships in these firms.
How India, China Redefine The Tech World Order
India and China -- with their fast-growing markets and rapidly expanding innovation capabilities -- are threatening to redefine the historically US-centric -- and unipolar -- world order for the tech industry. This document examines how the epoch-defining interplay of accelerators and decelerators impacts the performance of both Asian giants and will shape high-tech industry relationships between the East and the West over the next two decades (2005-2025).
Preparedness Versus Probability In Determining Risk
Organizations are building defined processes to measure and manage risk -- risks that cross traditional silos of risk management, such as credit and market risk, to new areas in operational risk management. When conducting a risk analysis, organizations seeking to measure operational risk should give greater consideration to their preparedness to meet or mitigate a risk -- before spending time on probability.
What's Important To IT Management In 2006
IT executives in 2005 were asked to do more to boost top-line growth, make their infrastructures as reliable as the power grid, make their teams better at managing suppliers, boost their knowledge of their businesses, and become ever more cost efficient. In 2006, leading IT organizations will participate more in business innovation, become catalysts for process transformation, and help their firm move beyond compliance to enterprise risk management.
Make IT Matter For Business Innovation
Business execs don't believe that the IT organization contributes business innovations to their firm. Not surprising, given that IT allocates less than 25% of its budget toward "new" work -- activities not classified as maintenance and ongoing operations. This document outlines steps that IT must follow to recover its innovation potential with changes that span people and organization, process, and technology. Where to start depends on the type and status of the IT organization today.
Characteristics Of An IT Innovation
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