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  2. Overview of Business Questions
  3. Where are accountability gaps in strategic themes?
  • Overview of business questions
  • Transparency
    • What is our application portfolio?
      • Identify all active applications
      • Identify applications owned by an organization
      • Identify all applications supporting a business capability
      • Identify strategic applications
      • Identify the most expensive applications
      • Identify applications to sundown
      • Understand who is responsible for an application
    • What is our technology portfolio?
      • Identify standard components
      • Understand who is responsible for a component
    • What is our technical debt?
      • Identify applications that are at risk
      • Identify technology migration needs
      • Identify technology migration needs
      • Identify business capabilities at risk
      • Identify IT capabilities at risk
    • Who are our vendors?
      • Identify vendors with critical components
      • Identify vendors important to the business
      • Identify vendors important to the technology infrastructure
    • What are our architectural dependencies?
      • Identify applications are potentially obsolete
      • Understand impact of migration to data flows
      • Identify planned information flows
    • Which business areas require the most IT support?
      • Identify at-risk business processes
      • Identify application support
      • Identify technological risk
    • Which contracts should we review?
      • Identify the most critical contracts
      • Identify cost savings
      • Identify contracts relevant for planned architecture changes
      • Focus on contracts provided by a vendor or organization
      • Identify contracts relevant for a part of the business
      • Hide predecessor/successor contracts
    • What is our service catalog?
      • Understand the business capabilities supported by business services
      • Understand service portfolio costs
      • Identify strategic business services
      • Understand who is responsible for a business service
    • Where are our applications deployed?
      • Understand application deployment
    • What is our AI portfolio?
      • Understand the applications providing AI features
      • Identify components providing AI models or AI technologies
      • Assess AI for for risk and compliance
      • Identify high risk AI features
      • Identify AI features and AI models in review
    • What are our AI dependencies?
      • Understand the information displayed
      • Understand how an application provides AI features
      • Understand an AI feature's impact
      • Understand how AI enables a business capability
      • Execute an impact analysis on the AI portfolio
    • What is our data landscape?
    • What are our middleware integrations?
  • Governance
    • Who is responsible for our assets?
      • Find assets with no responsibilities defined
      • Find assets that a user is responsible for
      • Identify the users and organizations responsible for an asset
      • Define responsibility for an asset
    • Who owns which applications?
      • Improve the data regarding application ownership
      • Understand which organizations own applications supporting a business capability
      • Understand which organizations own active applications
    • What is our standards catalog?
      • Show components on first-level IT capabilities
      • Identify IT capabilities with non-standard components
      • Understand the applications using a component
      • Understand who is responsible for a component
    • What should we be focusing on?
      • Identify business capabilities requiring attention
      • Understand the current application support
      • Understand the future application support
      • Understand which organizations own critical business capabilities
      • Identify business capabilities used by a specific organization
    • Who owns our technologies?
      • Improve the data regarding technology ownership
      • Understand which organizations own components supporting an IT capability
      • Understand which organizations own active components
    • Where is AI impacting business?
      • Understand the impact of AI on a business capability
      • Understand AI's impact to mission-critical business capabilities
      • Understand AI's impact on market differentiators
      • Understand AI's impact on revenue contribution
  • Finance
    • What is our OPEX distribution?
      • Identify cost savings through application rationalization
    • What is our CAPEX distribution?
    • What are our cost drivers?
      • Identify current application costs
      • Review the most expensive business capabilities
      • Identify applications to rationalize
      • Identify project costs
    • What are our service costs?
      • Identify the most expensive services
      • Identify the most expensive planned services
      • Identify service costs for an organization providing services
  • Rationalization
    • What are our investment/retirement candidates?
      • Identify applications for investment
      • Reassess the strategic recommendation
      • Identify issues with planned applications
    • What is the status of our rationalization plan?
      • Understand cost savings due to rationalization
      • Analyze trends in rationalization activity
      • Understand planned applications
    • What are our service overlaps?
      • Understand which assets deliver a service
      • Identify risks in service delivery
      • Identify rationalization candidates
    • Where do we have functional redundancies?
  • Cloud Migration
    • What are our cloud focus areas?
      • Indentify candidates for migration
      • Identify candidates for sundowning
      • Review costs of migration candidates
    • What is our cloud migration strategy?
      • Identify applications to migrate
      • Identify applications to retire
      • Identify the business capabilities impacted by cloud migration
  • Roadmapping
    • What is our application landscape?
      • Identify the most important applications
      • Understand future applications
      • Identify risks to business support
      • Identify complexity
    • What is our target architecture?
      • Understand the support for business capabilities
      • Understand applications providing business support
      • Understand planned business support
      • Identify applications recommended for the target architecture
      • Identify risk due to technical obsolescence
    • What is our application roadmap?
      • Review successor applications
      • Change an application lifecycle
      • Understand changes to application support
    • What is our vendor roadmap?
      • Review the organizations buying our contracts
      • Review the vendors and organizations providing contracts
      • Understand future vendor roadmap
      • Identify the contracts that will end soon
      • Identify excess contracts
      • Identify expensive contracts
    • What is our technology roadmap?
      • Review successor components
      • Change a component lifecycle
      • Understand changes to component support
      • What technology is planned for an IT capability?
    • What is our service landscape?
      • Identify the most important services
      • Identify risks to services
      • Understand future business services and support services
    • What is our service roadmap?
      • Review successor business services
      • Change a business service lifecycle
      • Understand changes to business service delivery
  • Business Relationship
    • What is our demand pipeline?
      • Identify demands by requesting organization
    • Which demands should be realized?
      • Understand business value, architectural impact, and project risk
      • Identify demands to prioritize
    • How do we manage our portfolio flow?
      • Identify epics requiring attention
      • Prioritize epics in the portfolio backlog
      • Identify strategy-relevant epics
      • Estimate the timeline for the epic
    • Who are our service providers and consumers?
      • Improve the data regarding business service providers
      • Understand which organizations provide business services supporting a business capability
      • Understand which organizations provide active business services
    • Where are our business priorities?
      • Understand the focus area
      • Identify maturity gaps
    • What is our technology usage?
      • Business-critical component support
      • Identify unused standard components
      • Understand who is responsible for a component
    • What is our business-IT alignment?
    • Where are our applications used?
  • Transformation
    • What are our most important projects?
      • Identify risk due to project complexity
      • Identify business impact due to project failure
      • Understand project risk to the IT infrastructure
      • Identify the most expensive projects
    • What are our project overlaps?
      • Understand which projects have assets in common
      • Define an asset that is impacted by a project
    • Where are our project dependencies?
      • Identify project dependencies requiring attention
      • Identify architecture affected by projects
    • What is the status of our project portfolio?
      • Identify projects at risk
      • Identify projects with dependencies
      • Change a project's milestones
    • How do we manage our program flow?
      • Identify features require attention
      • Prioritize features
      • Identify strategy-relevant features
    • What is our strategic progress?
    • Where can we expect resource constraints?
  • Risk
    • How will IT failure impact our business?
      • Understand the impact of a local shut-down
      • Understand the impact of application failure
      • Review the IT support of a business capability
      • Review the IT support of a business capability
    • Where do we use sensitive data?
      • Identify redundant use of data
      • Understand where personal data is used
      • Identify GDPR-relevant data
    • Where do we have technology risk?
      • Identify business capabilities at risk
      • Identify IT capabilities at risk
      • Edit the component lifecycle
      • Specify vendor lifecycle support for components
      • Display components owned by a specific organization
      • Display future component support
    • Where do we have SLA violations?
      • Identify at-risk business capabilities
      • Identify at-risk consumer organizations
      • Review the SLA violation
    • What is our security score?
      • Identify critical applications for IT security
      • Identify applications with no CIA score
    • Where is our data processed?
    • How are we executing our strategy?
      • Is my strategy at risk?
      • Which assets owned by an organization are impacted by the strategy?
      • Where are accountability gaps in strategic themes?
      • Where is value not defined for strategic themes?
      • Where is there a breakdown between strategy and execution?
    • What is our investment landscape?

Where are accountability gaps in strategic themes?

Review the Business Owner cell for each strategic theme to ensure that each strategic theme has a business owner who has responsibility for the strategic theme. Also check the Stakeholders cell to identify who has a vested interest in the strategic them or may be impacted by its outcome.

To update the Business Owner of Stakeholder information, double-click a strategic theme to navigate to its content area > Overview > Responsibilities to define the users and organizations that have a role for th...

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