Best Practice Report

CIOs: Reduce Costs By Scoring Applications

Manage Tech Obsolescence And Change IT Demand Governance

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Jan 06, 2023

Summary

CIOs have been challenged on where to focus legacy modernization and where to prioritize for resilient operations. Forrester’s Future Fit Survey, 2022, shows that respondents at 36% of modern and 50% of future fit organizations say that increasing operational resilience is a critical priority for their organization over the next 12 months. An application scoring mechanism is a first step toward creating application transparency, providing actionable and objective information about each application. Application scoring mechanisms give CIOs a rating mechanism that can help them reallocate maintenance dollars to the highest-priority applications while taming and phasing out commodity applications.

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