Transcript The Evolution of the IT Roadmap

Overcoming the
Challenges of
Translating Mission
Strategy into Your
IT Roadmap
Christopher Steel
October 2014
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Agenda
• What is an IT Roadmap
• The Need for IT Roadmaps
• Challenges Translating Mission Strategy to an IT Road Map
• Portfolio Management: Implementing Enterprise-scale
Roadmaps
• The Future is Now – Translate Your IT Mission Strategy into a
Road Map using a Portfolio Management Tool
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All Agencies Attempt to Manage Their IT Portfolios
Capabilities
Applications
Technologies
Devices
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Strategies
Demands
Risks
Regulations
Budgets
Challenge: Organizational Silos
Capabilities Strategies Demands
Applications
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Risks
Technologies
Regulations
Devices
Budgets
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Challenge: Different Objectives
Capabilities Strategies Demands
Applications
Risks
Technologies
Regulations
Devices
Budgets
Shut down non-strategic
applications to save Opex
and stop non-strategic
project enhancements for Capex!
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And the Results ….
Capabilities Strategies
Applications
Risks
Technologies
Regulations
Devices
Budgets
* Nucleus Research: IT Budgeting: Perception and Reality, November 2011
** Nucleus Research: Risk of inaccurate data on IT applications, April 2011
*** Capgemini: Application Landscape Report 2011, April 2011
**** IDG: CFO-CIO Information Gap, September 2011
***** IDG: IT Planning, December 2012
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Demands
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Current Mission Strategies Lack Insight
• Lack of insight hinders forecast reliability
• Lack of insight slows decision making
• Lack of insight adds costs
• The end result:
• The same arbitrary budgeting processes based on
previous budgets and poor IT-business alignment
• What’s needed: A better IT Roadmap
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What Is An IT Roadmap
• IT Roadmaps:
• Collaboration and decision support tools
• Align technology choices to business objectives
• Govern technology selection
• Guide project portfolio prioritization
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Road Maps Are Communication Vehicles
Road maps indicate
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Velocity of change
Decision points
Event Sequencing
Dependencies
Future risks
Road maps answer
• What is the scope of this
initiative?
• How long will this initiative
take?
• Where are we in terms of goal
attainment?
• How do we measure progress?
• What is our next step?
Road maps are not strategies or project plans
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Where Road Maps Fit Into Planning Hierarchy
Vision – Future state of the agency
Goal – qualitative results that define the attributes of the vision
Strategies – Courses of action that drive activities toward a goal
Objectives – Quantitative, measureable results that define strategy
objectives
• Initiatives/Programs – Broad actions that accomplish strategy
objectives
• Road maps – time-sequenced initiatives within a strategy
• Projects – Activities that organize initiatives to attain objectives
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Challenges Translating Strategy into IT Road Maps
• Lack of visibility and transparency
• Lack of metrics to properly measure ROI
• Lack of tools to analyze how changes in your technology and
application portfolios impact each other
• Lack of insight into all the various initiatives:
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Business-driven
Consolidation
IT Governance
IT Finance Management
Program Portfolio
Business Strategy Alignment
IT Transparency
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Goal: All IT Portfolios in One Environment
Business
Capabilities
Architecture
Strategies
Demands
Finance &
Applications
Risks
Technologies
Regulations
Devices
Budgets
Projects
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Risk
See the Current State to Plan for the Future
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Business Driven Initiatives
Transformation
and innovation
programs
Capabilities
• Support of information gathering & analysis
• Transformation planning
• Assessment of scope-changes
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Benefits
• Faster analysis of IT environment
• Less planning errors
• Better delivery on customer expectations
Consolidation Initiatives
SAP consolidation,
application portfolio
optimization, computer
center consolidation,
platform
standardization
Capabilities
• Consolidation analytics
• Support of project planning phase
• Processes to control project execution
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Benefits
• Analysis IT environments before consolidation
• Fewer planning errors and increased planning
maturity with more reuse of information
IT Governance Initiatives
IT planning and
management process
improvement, IT risk
management,
compliance projects, IT
standards catalogue
Capabilities
• Deliver/adopt best practice IT processes
• Support information gathering & analysis
• Structure/automate risk & compliance
assessments
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Benefits
• Better control of implemented IT processes
• Increased transparency for business
• Improved/more efficient IT controls and audits
IT Finance Management
Application TCO,
budgeting, value-of-IT
controlling
Capabilities
• Transparency of full app. lifecycle costs
• Capability driven portfolio analysis
• Business aligned IT budgeting & control
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Benefits
• Better transparency of IT cost drivers
• Faster reaction to priority changes
• Optimized budget allocation
Program Portfolio
Architecture based
investment planning,
value based portfolio
management
Capabilities
• Delivery of know how
• Methodology and processes
• Portfolio analytics
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Benefits
• Reliable scope change impact analysis
• Effective decision making
• Optimized budget allocation
Business Strategy Alignment
Strategy
operationalization
and IT value
contribution,
strategic IT roadmapping
Capabilities
Benefits
• Implementation of capability
• Greater transparency over IT value contribution
management processes
• Common Business/IT language
• Strategy and IT value analytics
• Better alignment of IT to business strategy
• Best-practice road-mapping processes
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IT Transparency
IT information
management, IT
lifecycle
management,
master data
management
Alfabet offering
Benefits
• Support data gathering, consolidation & cleansing • Faster and more reliable results
• Extends to support other IT initiatives
• Structure data and delivery of analytics
• Reuse of information and analytics
• Introduce IT information mgmt. processes
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IT Road-Mapping
Business
support maps,
program roadmapping,
technology and
standards roadmapping
Capabilities
Benefits
• Transfer of best practices and roadmap
analytics
• Support of info gathering and analysis
• Implement road-mapping processes
• Faster and more reliable IT delivery
• Improved communication of IT transformation
• Reduced effort for road-map maintenance
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Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis
Applications
Conclusion
• Portfolio Management tools help agencies translate mission strategy
into an IT Road Map in the following ways
• Process Visibility: everyone relevant to program success is informed,
involved and has visibility into all the necessary IT initiatives.
• Measurable ROI: achieved through a clear understanding of the cost and
required resources of enterprise change through mapped capabilities
• Analyze Impact: run different ‘what-if’ scenarios to better understand the
impact of changes across your technology and application portfolios
• Decision Making Insight: through visibility to the implications of change
and alternate IT scenarios
• Alfabet is the leading IT Portfolio Management product providing
agencies the capabilities to reduce cost and increase insight and
efficiency to overcome the challenges of translating mission strategy
into your IT Roadmap
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