Length: 14 pages For CIOs
Phil Murphy February 4, 2008
CIOs Must MAP A Strategic Application Plan
Align IT Execution To Business Needs With Vision, Context, And Orchestration
This is the first document in the "Strategic Application Planning" series.
by Phil Murphy
with Bobby Cameron, Alex Cullen, Tim DeGennaro

This is a document excerptEXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The duties performed by CIOs are analogous to those of big-city mayors — neither executive has the chance to build a community from scratch, and most inherit a series of problems from predecessors: dated infrastructures, more demand than they can meet, a flurry of community development work-in-progress, and a host of constituents with conflicting social and political agendas. Like city neighborhoods spawned from unbridled growth, today's IT organizations need to implement a more strategic approach to application planning that will refocus IT efforts on the most important needs of community leaders. Model-based application planning (MAP) triangulates an approach from three key perspectives: 1) a rolling five-year vision of the community; 2) a context to serve as a common business/IT lexicon; and 3) orchestration across application, project, and infrastructure improvement efforts.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemUnbridled Community Growth Creates Sprawl

itemIT Doesn't Work Toward A Community Vision

itemApplication Planning Lacks Context And Orchestration

itemThe IT Community Is In Need Of Urban Renewal

itemMAP Offers A Framework For Urban Renewal

itemBusiness Strategy Drives Community Vision

itemCapability Maps Create Context

itemOrchestration Choreographs IT Activity

recommendations

itemMAP Your IT Planning And Governance Functions

What it means

itemMAP And IIM Will Make A Potent Combination

Forrester assimilated the issues identified by hundreds of firms that are struggling to articulate coherent application planning in the context of strategic IT and business planning and budgeting.

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Analyst: Phil Murphy
Technology: Application Development, Application Development Management, Application Strategy & Selection, Architecture & Technology Strategy, IT Management, Packaged Applications, Serving the Business
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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