Quantitative IT portfolio management

Quantitative IT portfolio management

We present a quantitative approach for IT portfolio management. This is an approach that CMM level 1 organizations can use to obtain a corporate wide impression of the state of their total IT portfolio, how IT costs spent today project into the budgets of tomorrow, how to assess important risks residing in an IT portfolio, and to explore what-if scenarios for future IT investments. Our quantita...

Strategic Alignment and IT Project Portfolio Management

If structured around an appropriate combination of business processes, knowledge and technology, Information Systems can become a very powerful business strategic lever. With this holistic perspective in mind, we redesigned the dysfunctioning IT project portfolio management process of one of the FTSE 100 global companies. The new process aims at better identifying, evaluating and balancing proj...

Asymmetric Correlation in IT Project Portfolio Management

Towards Robust IT Service Portfolio Management

ITIL recommends implementing Service Portfolio Management as a way to actively manage IT investments, with transparency in its operations and spending. Selecting which and when projects should be executed is an important but complex task. It is all the more complex if one includes operational costs, which represent a significant component of the IT budget. We investigate techniques to provide d...

Value-Oriented IT Project Portfolio Management

In the present enterprise computing environment, it becomes more and more important to be able to demonstrate financial gains of IT (Information Technology) initiatives compared to their cost. A valuation methodology is a logical, repeatable fi-amework for making IT investment decisions and monitoring projects to ensure that they ultimately contribute to the financial health and growth of the e...