Business questions focused on Governance

The business question What should we be focusing on? focuses on the IT landscape from the perspective of the business and helps you to make sound investment decisions about the IT. The visualization shows you which first- and second-level business capabilities in the business capability model are most critical and which are less critical to the business. Review the aggregated number of as-is applications currently supporting a business capability as well as the to-be applications planned to support it. Determine which applications to invest in, migrate, or divest based on the relevance of the business capabilities they support.

The business question Who is responsible for our assets? enables your company to understand the users and organizations that have a functional role for each asset in the IT portfolio. Review the data to identify the assets that do not have any roles assigned to close the gaps on data responsibility. Fix missing role definitions on the spot to improve data quality, ensure accountability, and quickly find the right contacts when making investment decisions about your company's assets.

The business question What is our standards catalog? focuses on governance of the technology portfolio and enables you to assess whether components are aligned with the company's standards catalog. Insight about the use of components by the applications ensures that you understand the importance of your IT capabilities and technology infrastructure for the business. Review the use of components to promote standards, identify the use of components that are not permitted, and reduce non-standard technologies. This business question helps you to identify and mitigate risk to your technology portfolio and reduce IT costs for the business.

The business question Who owns which applications? focuses on the organizational ownership of applications. Doughnut charts visualize the percentage of applications owned by organizations with the roles Business Owner or IT Owner. The graphics also indicate the percentage of the company's applications that have no organizational ownership defined. Review that organizational responsibility is documented for all applications in the application portfolio to mitigate risk to your company's IT infrastructure and ensure that the IT is prepared for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) audits.

The business question What are our most important projects? provides a holistic overview of the project portfolio so that you can immediately understand key project trends. The visualization identifies the most important IT transformation projects so that you can take the necessary actions by understanding which critical projects are underperforming based on RAG (Red, Amber, Green) status values. Review the RAG status to monitor your IT transformation, mitigate project failure, understand investment outcomes, and better manage stakeholder expectations.