IT Investment Portfolio Management: Optimizing the Business Value of IT

They’re under growing pressure to demonstrate the value of IT, delivering the changes and capabilities that the business needs to achieve high performance, while showing that technology can sustain and even stretch the strategic agenda. CIOs may benefit from crafting an IT investment portfolio that is aligned with the CEO agenda without adding complexity, while also performing real-time planning to anticipate and maximize the use of finite IT resources.

Our research indicates that leaders in IT execution industrialize their planning and delivery capabilities to ensure that the required IT resources are available and appropriately skilled to deliver the business objectives of the IT investment portfolio. Linking business alignment to more dynamic IT planning is critical to achieving high performance, and for many organizations the greatest single challenge is to improve how they make key IT investment and planning decisions. Portfolio management transformation requires a clear vision for the planning and execution of IT demand that brings together people, processes and tools.