Launching IT Portfolio Management

With portfolio management, IT shops can leverage value in the same way motion picture studios do. They can look at the shape of their current enterprise and adjust their IT applications suite as necessary to remove obsolescence and redundancy and to establish the right mix of functionality. They can then strategically shape the evolution of the enterprise toward established business objectives through the intelligent and informed selection of the right kinds of projects to push forward. Finally, this managed enterprise can then be used to identify opportunities for ongoing reuse and piggybacking, in terms of both design and operational throughput.

Three basic steps can be used to set an APM program in place in ...

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