Best Practice Report

Best Practices: Adopt The Discipline Of Consolidation

Cut Complexity To Reduce The Overhead And Friction That Destroy Value

Alexander Peters, Ph.D.
 and  three contributors
Nov 05, 2007

Summary

IT has a natural tendency toward adding unnecessary complexity in the form of duplicate assets, multiple processes to achieve the same ends, or overlapping organizational responsibilities. Unnecessary complexity adds to IT costs and risks and reduces its effectiveness. The only sustainable remedy against these failings is to strategically apply disciplined consolidations, focusing on their business value and long-term impact on IT.

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