Identifying critical business capabilities is essential for aligning IT investments with strategic priorities and ensuring operational efficiency. When planning to-be applications, an increase in applications supporting non-critical business capabilities may signal misaligned spending. Even for critical business capabilities, expanding the application landscape should be carefully evaluated to avoid unnecessary complexity and IT overhead.
Look for business capabilities with a warning or issue symbol in the business question What should we be focusing on?
- A warning symbol
indicates that more to-be applications are planned than as-is applications for non-critical business areas. Review why the number of supporting applications will be increased for a non-critical business capability to ensure that you are not spending in the wrong areas of the business. - An issue symbol
is displayed if more to-be applications are planned than as-is applications for a critical business capability. Review whether it is really necessary to expand the number of planned applications and increase your IT footprint.