Data requirements for "What are our cost drivers?"

This business question focuses on the costs of the business capabilities based on the operational expenses of the applications that support them.

MM_WhatAreOurCostDrivers 

To have meaningful data for the business question What are our cost drivers?, you must capture the following information about the applications and business capabilities in your company.

Class Attribute Mandatory Explanation

Application

The application's current year total operational expenditure (OpEx) per business capability is defined as the sum of the application costs for the current year divided by the number of provided business capabilities (equal cost distribution). This contributes to the size of the level 2 business capabilities.

Software License Cost

x

The costs for software license for the application.

Software Maintenance Cost

x

The costs to maintain software license for the application.

Infrastructure Cost

x

The costs to deploy IT assets for the application.

Service Cost

x

Other service costs in addition to the maintenance costs.

OpEx Cost

x

The operating expenditures for the application.

Business Capability

This business question requires the availability of at least 2 levels of business capabilities in your portfolio.

Level ID

The hierarchical number of the business capability in the business capability hierarchy. For example: 1, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, etc.

Necessary for the visualization.

Name

Necessary for the visualization.

Business Relevance

Required for business question.

Indicates how relevant the business capability is for the business:

  • Mission Critical: The business capability is crucial to the organization's business and therefore essential to the accomplishment of the vision, goals and objectives.
  • Business Evolving: The business capability responds to internal and external change and helps to support the necessary steps to transition the organization's business.
  • Business Enabling: The business capability is currently core to the business of the organization and describes what currently exists in the business.
  • Business Operating: The business capability is not unique to the business but does provide the support required to operate the business. Because it is not unique to the business, it does not constitute a core business capability.

Parent Business Capability

x

Every business capability on the second level of the hierarchy and lower should have a parent business capability defined. This enables the aggregation of applications that provide a lower-level business capability up to the second-level business capability.

Application

x

One or more applications that provide the business capability.