Project Management

Getting Control of IT

David Weiss
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While a variety of approaches to portfolio management have been documented, most require significant enterprise change, investment and risk. Here is an implementation approach that can bypass many of the major cultural, technical and organizational challenges that typically add risk, cost and complexity.

It is a difficult time to be an IT executive. You are in the norm if the business executives at your company expect you to continue to deliver incremental improvements, despite static or decreasing IT budgets. At the same time, you are likely finding new compliance regulations adding external pressure for tightened IT management control and accountability.
 
A broadly recommended response to these challenges is to establish effective IT management controls using portfolio management techniques. This practices helps align the activities and investments of your IT organization with the objectives of the business.
 
While a variety of approaches to portfolio management have been documented, most require significant enterprise change. This entails substantial investment and significant risk. Fortunately, there are more effective, lower risk approaches available.
 
This white paper is intended to provide the business case for effective IT management through portfolio management, and to detail an implementation approach which can bypass many of the major cultural,…

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