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Application Outsourcing the way we see it
From IT Costto Business Value
Focusing investment for competitive advantage
Transorming applications into business advantage
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Contents
1 Summary 3
2 Support and maintenance central to value creation 4
3 Thinking about business over technology 5
4 Business alignment is not nodding 6
5 Know the value 7
6 Concentrate on dierentiation 8
7 Rationalize in line with the business 9
8 One size doesn’t ft all – understanding the roadmap 11
9 Removing customization to eliminate costs 12
10 Focusing on ROI 16
11 The impact o Application Portolio Strategy 18
12 Conclusion 20
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Summary
The challenge o portolio management has been summed up in the extensiveresearch conducted by the ormer CIO o the US Department o Deense,Paul A. Strassmann1,2,3. He demonstrated there is no relation betweeninormation management per employee and return on shareholder equity. Healso showed there is no relation between prots and annual IT spending. Thus,the key decision o portolio management should not center on how much to
spend but on what to spend on. The goal is to create a portolio managementapproach in which “decisions on whether to invest in IT are based on potentialreturn, and decisions to terminate or make additional investments are based onperormance, much like an investment broker is measured and rewarded basedon managing risk and achieving results.”4
The challenge or any CIO, but particularly one aced with the requirement tocreate more value rather than just to cut costs, is to develop a balanced portoliothat allocates IT unding in a targeted, controlled and measurable way.
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When CIOs look at the current cost structure o their IT estate they see aconsistent picture: the majority o unding is spent on Business as Usual (BAU)and a minority on new investment.
These challenges o cost distribution mean that any plan to drive value rom ITmust be ocused primarily on improvement and value that can be driven rom theexisting estate. The CIO who concentrates purely on new projects aces two keyproblems. Firstly, these projects are mostly already dened by the business andthereore not IT-driven; and secondly, the new projects represent the minority o IT spending. For the CIO to truly demonstrate value creation rom an IT estate, hemust understand how the value can be driven out o all IT, and most especiallyout o Business-as-Usual IT. It is in this area that the CIO can really create theexibility and slack5 needed to drive innovation and value within the business.
This understanding means that to really drive value rom IT the CIO must thinko Support and Maintenance as integral parts o the value creation strategy.
By looking at how Support and Maintenance can be modied to drive value,the CIO has the opportunity to directly demonstrate how the IT department iscognizant o the business challenges and can react to them within the existingspending structure. Rather than continually requiring new unding to achieve newthings, this approach helps to repurpose old money in line with the business.
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Figure 1. Current cost model
Costs
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The biggest challenges in IT are not technological but sociological6. Thus, thebiggest change aced by the IT organization is to change the way it thinks aboutthe business and to re-orient itsel towards business value. IT organizationsand their suppliers need to shit away rom the technology (i.e. a network-and application-centric) view towards a business-centric view. They need
to understand the way business operates, its drivers and goals, and – mostimportantly – the language it uses to describe itsel. Instead o centering onimplementation and technology, the goals o IT need to be dened in businesslanguage and ocused on the prevailing business model.
The most eective way or an IT organization to do this is to understand thebusiness services7 o the organization. This Business Service Architecture helps togive the context and ramework or IT and organizational decisions.
The Business Service Architecture represents the map o the business; it denesits objectives and drivers. The “big picture” it provides represents the ITorganization’s aim, namely: to create an IT estate that looks like, evolves like andis budgeted like the business it supports.
By constructing a Business Service Architecture, the CIO can start to mapout the vision and goals or IT and to look at the organizational and business
structure within which IT can sit. Work is underway to improve these denitions,to move away rom the abstract towards more ormal, manageable entities8.
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Make ItemsManufacturing Sales
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Figure 2. Manuacturing Level 0 Service Model
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One challenge IT departments ace is the erroneous idea that business alignmentis about doing what business people say, which conuses “alignment with thebusiness” with “alignment with individual objectives.” People will rarely, i ever,admit that their area is not strategic or dierentiating to the business. One o the hardest lessons or IT to learn is that its goal is not to simply do what business
people say but to do what the overall business strategy says. This means that ITmust be there to challenge the business around its IT spending; the challenge isnecessary to ensure business spending on a service is in line withthe expectations.
Too oten IT and business alignment is taken to mean that the IT department is todo what business tells it to do. Comments like “they do what I ask which is great,but it’s very expensive” highlight the risk o such approach, in which IT ails torein in spending and to stop needless optimizations, preventing the whole estaterom becoming a dierentiated solution against the competition. This means thatthere is a lack o ocus in the spending and the end result is almost alwaysa massively more expensive IT estate than bets the business strategy.
The goal or the dynamic CIO thereore is to have an IT department and partnerswho are able to actively engage in debate with the business and assist in shapingthe course or the uture, in line with the overarching business strategy ratherthan simply based on the last conversation had with a business person.
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Once you have the business context, you can then properly understand thebusiness value. Too oten IT equates value with the amount o money spent on asystem rather than on the value derived rom that investment. Taking a business-value approach to assessing the validity o spending oten leads to a dramaticreassessment o IT priorities. Understanding the business value o a businessservice is relatively simple. Answers must be provided to two questions: rstly,what would be the driver or changing a service, and, secondly, what would bethe justication or the change.
Figure 3 shows a standard Value Classication Matrix. The top o each boxdenes the Business Driver or change; the bottom denes the Decision Driver orapproval. This helps the IT department to identiy areas genuinely important tothe business, as opposed to those that merely cost a lot to support.
The Business Service Architecture and the Value Classication Matrix can be usedto create a “heatmap” o the business.
Know the value
Opportunity
ROI
Issue
Cost
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Service Level
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Competitive
Advantage
Manufacturing
Logistics & Warehouse Finance
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SuppliersForecasting
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Stock Control
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Invoicing
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Heatmaps quickly showcase the business areas where value can be created(Orange and Red) and where costs should be reduced (Blue and Purple).
Importantly, even within an area where cost reduction is the norm, it isreasonable to nd business services that have the potential to really change theway the business works and to drive signicant new value.
Figure 3. Value Clasication Matrix
Figure 4. Sample heatmap
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One o the most striking conclusions o this type o exercise is that many partso the existing back ofce are considered to be either a utility- or an issue-basedsystem. It has been claimed9 that 95% o what all companies do is eectivelythe same, and only 5% o their activities provide the strategic dierentiation.Oddly, in most companies today these non-dierentiating parts are oten the most
expensive parts o an IT estate. The heatmap gives a business-value perspectiveand thereore it highlights the supporting IT system investment and cost drivers.
Thereore the CIO’s goal is to dramatically reduce costs in the “cold” areasand to ocus the best people and investment on the areas delivering real businessvalue. The cold areas (Blue and Purple) should be outsourced; partners shouldbe sought to co-develop the warm (Orange) areas; and the hot (Red) areas shouldbe retained and developed through internal investment and, i needed, skills romoutside. The quality o sta is the single biggest orce driving productivity10;using high quality and productive sta in non-value-generating areas is a greatwaste o IT resources. The uture IT organization should concentrate its sta oncreating dierentiation in value-creating areas and look to third parties to providestandardized cost-reduction solutions elsewhere. This dierentiation ocus tends to require a dierent skills prole than the onenormally ound in corporate IT departments.
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Another key challenge many companies ace in applications rationalization is tounderstand not just the technical and unctional overlap o applications but alsohow this overlap ts with the business model and, thereore, which rationalizationapproach is optimal. The Business Service Architecture and the ValueClassication Matrix make it easier to answer the questions o “Own, Manage,
Rent, Retire” as they help to create a more accurate applications map, one whichexposes not just the overlaps in applications but also the gaps – areas in which noapplication supports the business.
Rationalize in linewith the business
R&D
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In Figure 5, a limited number o dierentiating applications should be retained
directly by the organization. One application (Phoenix) should be managedvia a third party provider (i.e. it should be outsourced); three ERP applicationsshould be replaced with a single ERP instance; and one application (QCA) shouldbe retired as it duplicates unctionality. In this example the overlaps are clear andobvious, yet sometimes the situation is much harder to decipher.
In the scenario drawn up in Figure 6 there are not only a number o overlappingapplications but there are also signicant gaps in core areas, most notably inorecasting. The question is thereore not o a simple rationalization but o howto undertake the rationalization and start delivering solutions to one o the keybusiness dierentiators. This is a good example o a case in which elements, suchas SOA Build and Run-Build-Run contracts described later, can be used to actively
manage the rationalization either via a replacement strategy or by using SOAprinciples to reuse those parts o the legacy most representative o the company’sstrategy.
Figure 5. Example o straightorward application rationalization
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Forecasting Suppliers
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Control
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In this example, the most appropriate approach would be to look atrationalization as part o the move towards delivering an IT estate that better tsthe business. The latter sections o this paper will deal with the dierent approachesto rationalization, but broadly what could be done in such an estate would bea combination o SaaS solutions, Run-Build-Run outsourcing, and new build.
Figure 6. Example o challenging application rationalization
Forecasting
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Figure 7. Application rationalization with new build
The goal o strategic rationalization thereore is not just to retire and consolidateapplications but also to identiy areas that need to be extended and to create amore complete solution. Focusing purely on cost reduction oten means thatrationalization delivers lower costs but also less unctionality, which can meanuture difculties in adding strategic dierentiation since such dierentiation was
not dened as a goal o the rationalization process.
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This new value-ocused model demands great exibility rom IT delivery.In particular, IT departments and outsourcers ace a signicant challenge as Mess-or-Less is no longer “enough” when it comes to cost cutting and it clearly doesnot assure the exibility required to continually deliver business value. There aretwo clear roadmaps, the choice o the right one depends on whether an area is
capable o creating value or not.
One size doesn’t t all –understanding the roadmap
B u s i n e s s V a l u e A d d
C o s t C o n t a i n m e n t
ApplicationPortfolioStrategy
BusinessService
Architecture
SOA Build
Business Process Insight
ERP Run
(utility pricing)
Shared Services
SaaS
ITO + BPO
Business Service FocusTechnology Focus
SOA Run
Application Mashups
Application Hosting
Application Skills on Demand
Application Management
Application Upgrades
Application Testing
Application Development
Application Modernization
Responsiveness & Flexibility
Saving Money
Capgemini Application Outsourcing Service Roadmap
Figure 8. Application Portolio Roadmap11
Broadly there are two roadmaps, one which is ocused on reducing the costso elements and the other aimed at driving competitive advantage. To note,competitive advantage only ever comes rom having a business ocus and neverrom a technology ocus.
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The dreaded package upgrade is one o the most consistent problems aced by ITestate management. The reason or the dread is simple: i the package had beenlet vanilla then there would be no problem, but the package is never let vanilla.In eect, the customizations cost many multiples o their actual implementationcosts. Thereore, one question must always be asked: was the customization
genuinely required or was it required only because we didn’t want to changethe business. All too oten the business makes no move to change in order tomake the IT solution work. This leads to the worst o all worlds: the adoption o a packaged solution customized to t the existing business. The goal in cost-basedareas is thereore to eliminate customization and, thus, to remove needless costsand, in particular, to support upgrades implemented in the most cost- eectivemanner possible.
Removing customization toeliminate costs
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Figure 9. Cost based Roadmap
I a package is the answer, which tends to mean either cost- or utility-basedservices, then there is no competitive advantage to be gained. This means thathaving business- or IT- dierentiation in such areas is a waste o money. Thebusiness heatmap is there to highlight these areas to the CIO and to help themdrive a more dramatic cost-savings agenda. The mantra or cost-based areas shouldalways promote the adoption o commodity-packaged solutions and the change o the business to adopt the processes and standards o the package. The selection o
a package solution is a statement o intent: it says that it is okay i in this area thebusiness is just as good as everyone else’s. There is no value to be created romcustomization and only signicantly higher costs.
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The rst goal or any CIO in package implementation, upgrade or supportshould be to move towards as vanilla a solution as possible and to work with thebusiness to develop and implement a business change program that will supportthe commoditization. Companies are currently wasting millions to customizepackages whose costs increase over time.
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Figure 10. Relative cost o package customization
This means that a Mess-or-Less style o application support and management isdesigned to increase the long-term costs o package solutions as it ails to addressthe underlying challenges o business change or to continually look to replacecustomizations by vanilla solutions. Simply put, Mess-or-Less is designed toensure the upgrade o a package solution is more expensive.
For new packages the answer is simple: change the business not the package.This mantra will signicantly reduce implementation, support and upgrade costsand will also help to ensure the package delivers against its original business case.
For existing packages the challenge is clear: how to remove the customizationsto eliminate the extraneous cost. To this end, applications support must shitaway rom merely patching and updating towards being part o a business and
technology change program. This represents a signicant shit and tends to beimplemented with varying success in one o our ways:
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Description ProsName Cons
High Quality Evolution Assign a high quality supportand implementation teamaligned to an incrementalbusiness change program.
Evolutionary approachwith small steps. Enablesbusiness to remove costsover time.
High Quality Evolution Expensive to resourceand sta. Does not quicklydeliver the benets.
Break the package downinto its constituentmodules and replaceelements in denedgroups and businessareas. E.g. i doing HRand Finance, upgrade
Finance rst.
Evolutionary approachwith large jumps orward.Enables the targetingo key challenge areas.Gives a staged businesschange program.
IncrementalRun-Build-Run
Does not deliver benetsas quickly as possible.Requires ongoing supportto combine implementationand upgrade.
Single program approachto support existingapplication and thenreplace with a newversion, then take thatinto support. Largechange program andmigration all managedtogether.
Gives all benets asquickly as possible.Enables the new buildto be done independentlyo ongoing support.Ensures build andmigration are done withthe existing support team.
Run-Build-Run Change program canbe very large i it coversmultiple applicationareas. Oten works bestor limited area packages.
Existing organizationdoes the support anda new program isestablished or a newbuild, this undertakesthe business change andimplementation. There isthen a migration programto move the inormationrom the existing systemand to establish new
support.
Separates support romimplementation. Givesa targeted project orthe new build andchange.
New build and migrate Oten very expensive.Creates organizationaltension between BAUand new, oten with BAUadding modicationsrom the businessand thus causingdisengagement romthe change program.
The last o these elements is oten what companies are orced into doing as aresult o existing Mess-or-Less outsourcing deals. The existing contracts orcethem to create a new structure in which to deliver the new package. Additionally,the existing support team knows it will be replaced and oten becomes counter-productive by accepting business change requests which are being maderedundant by the new implementation. This oten leads to a big disconnectbetween the previous implementation and the new package, and sometimes to the
rejection o the new package by the business.
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Contractually thereore the most sensible approach is to choose an implementation
approach that works with the existing support organization and which provides
a clear strategy or moving the new application into support. These contracts should
look at the demonstrable benets that are expected through the implementation
and link its costs and bonuses to the achievement o the benets. Normally, these
benets should include both business change and technology savings targets.By making a single entity accountable or the migration and linking protability
and KPIs to the achievement o the savings, emphasis shits clearly away rom Mess-
or-Less towards the delivery o quantiable business advantage.
The logical conclusion: moving to shared services and SaaS
I a given area is not dierentiating, then many companies can use the same
solution without any impact on competition. This is best illustrated today by the
adoption o standard packages, or instance SAP ISU in utilities or Retek in retail,
adopted by multiple companies in a sector specically to achieve standardization.
Horizontal business unctions represent other areas where dierentiation does not
yield competitive advantage; hence packages like PeopleSot rom Oracle are otenused or HR solutions.
The next logical question thereore is why do I have my own? I a company has
elected to change its business practices to t a given package solution then it is hard
to see how the cost o inrastructure and dedicated IT support would represent the
lowest cost option or the provision o the service. I a service is considered a utility
then it should be charged as a utility. Companies do not go out building mobile
telephone inrastructures just so their employees can have mobile phones, nor do
they build power stations and gas pipelines just to keep the heat and lights on.
The decision driver or utility elements is service level: as long as a service reaches
the required service level then the cheapest option wins; companies will pay more
or extended service levels in the same way as they pay more to have mobile email
access than simply to make phone calls. These services are utilities whose costs are
directly linked to the business activity that creates the costs.
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C o s t C o n t a i n m e n t
ApplicationPortfolio
Strategy
BusinessService
Architecture
SOA Build
Business Process Insight
ERP Run(utility pricing)
Shared Services
SaaS
ITO + BPO
Business Service FocusTechnology Focus
SOA Run
Application Mashups
Application Hosting
Application Skills on Demand
Application Management
Application Upgrades
Application Testing
Application Development
Application Modernization
Responsiveness & Flexibility
Saving Money
Capgemini Application Outsourcing Service Roadmap
Figure 11. Utility Roadmap
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With phones the unit is the phone call and with electricity it is the Watt. ITservices must nd the equivalent usage measure or charging. The cost o invoicing should be driven by the number o invoices; the cost o Employee Sel-Service should be calculated by the number o employees. Once a business serviceis understood to be a utility, it becomes sensible to think about its provision and
costing in the terms o a utility. This is where Shared Services and Sotware as aService (SaaS) should be considered as the de acto choice or delivery.
The question or shared services or SaaS, and potentially even BPO, should notbe “why” but “why not.” There are suggestions12 that all computing will moveinto this mode o delivery although this is probably an extreme view. The realityis that many services would be better o being provisioned in this way. Thereare hurdles to be overcome or the adoption o Shared Services and SaaS or theservices business cost to be directly linked to its business activities.
For utility-ocused business services the only logical conclusion is that costingshould be linked to the business volume metric that it supports. This suggests
that SaaS, Shared Services or BPO are the only proessional answers.
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The rst area o ocus or IT departments looking to drive value should be in theROI category, as this is the place where traditional business cases can be builtand new opportunities created. The rst stage in many o these programs will be toclearly identiy which parts within an area have the potential to dierentiate andadd value and which can be moved towards commodity and standardization. Thegoal o this process is to ree up budget to be invested in areas that can actuallycreate a return on investment. In these areas thereore there are two orms o ROIprograms to be considered: those that create the headroom or innovation andthose that deliver the innovation.
This approach ocuses the ROI in one o the two places and gives the ITdepartment the opportunity to demonstrate the creation o business value byestablishing the budgetary headroom that is required to commission the new work.In creating a two phase program there is an obvious risk that the business, mostnormally the nance department, will elect to “book” the cost savings instead o investing in the innovation and value creation exercises. This risk is exactly whyit is important to rst identiy those areas where a strong ROI case can be built.Too oten IT departments undertake these exercises in non-dierentiating and non-
value-creating areas thus in areas where any potential or re-investment o savingsdoes not represent good sense rom a business perspective.
Focusing on ROI
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It is most eective to consider the cost and innovation elements within a single
program ramework with a dual business case as justication. Both o the businesscases should have clearly measurable metrics that either represent bottom-line costreduction or top-line growth. By tting the two elements in a single program,
Support
Development
Platform
Infrastructure
Original Cost Result Innovation
Figure 12. ROI approach to applications
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the minds o suppliers and employees can be made to ocus on the overall goalso the program rather than simply looking rst at cost reduction and, by doing so,potentially making the innovation and top-line impact harder to deliver.
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C o s t C o n t a i n m e n t
ApplicationPortfolioStrategy
BusinessService
Architecture
SOA Build
Business Process Insight
ERP Run(utility pricing)
Shared Services
SaaS
ITO + BPO
Business Service FocusTechnology Focus
SOA Run
Application Mashups
Application Hosting
Application Skills on Demand
Application Management
Application Upgrades
Application Testing
Application Development
Application Modernization
Responsiveness & Flexibility
Saving Money
Capgemini Application Outsourcing Service Roadmap
Figure 13. ROI roadmap
A common challenge in this area is ound when looking at extensions to packagesotware solutions or when looking at reducing costs o traditional bespoke
applications: how can we clearly identiy the pieces that should be cost reducedwhile eeding exibility where there is an underlying business rationale. This iswhere the next generation o SOA technologies and approaches are most eectiveas they support a common base to be leveraged and dierentiation to be addedonly where it counts.
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A successul Application Portolio Strategy is about aligning budget ocus towardseither investment or cost reduction. This approach must ever evolve with thebusiness to enable the CIO and the IT department to rene and update the portolioto guarantee the maximum ocus on business value at all times. The goal o thebusiness-oriented CIO is to move the IT department away rom skills-based
management towards value-based management. To do this the portolio strategyshould aim to drive initial cost savings which can be re-invested in the value-creating areas o the business.
The impact o ApplicationPortolio Strategy
Application Management
Infrastructure Management
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Figure 14. Skills based changes as a result o Portolio Management
Clearly while it is possible to see some changes when looking rom a skillsperspective, or instance the slight increase in application development and adecrease in traditional support costs, the exercise in Figure 14 highlights one o the key tasks beore Application Portolio Strategy: Application Portolio Strategymust drive change rom a skills-based assessment o IT towards a value-based
assessment. A skills-based approach leads to inefcient spending, with the bulk o spending around cost- and utility-based areas. It also does not give a holistic viewas to whether the spending was correctly ocused.
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Figure 15. Value base changes as a result o Application Portolio Strategy
While the skills change is interesting to IT, the impact on business valuerepresents the real change. This is because spending allocated to cost- or utility-based areas, or instance ERP customization, can be redirected to much moreefcient spending decisions, e.g. vanilla ERP with value-based customization inmiddleware or even a move towards SaaS instead o traditional ERP. This change
needs to be visible throughout the organization and is a major reason that onmost occasions the rst stage o any portolio strategy is a value-based assessmento today’s IT spending.
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IT needs to become business centric. This requires a business-centric applicationportolio strategy. The strategy needs to ocus on where value can be created andwhere costs should be reduced. By reorienting the application portolio strategyaway rom IT and towards business, it is possible to demonstrate the value IT candeliver and to create room or investment rom within the existing IT portolio.
Spending more on IT does give better results; the results are achieved by targetingthat spending to where the investment will create the greatest added value.
Conclusion
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