Governance
Have management and governance approaches in place to align new technology research activities.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Governance at each level of maturity.
- 1Initial
- Practice
- Rely on best endeavours of available personnel.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Implement some basic governance practices for major projects e.g. project review/project cancellation.
- Outcome
- Provides visibility on the status and resourcing of some RDE projects.
- Metric
- # of RDE projects analysed by project stage (e.g. research, prototype, business case, recommendations) and status (e.g. not started, on hold, cancelled) compared with previous periods.
- 3Intermediate
- Practices
- Define roles and responsibilities for governance of RDE projects.
- Standardize the RDE governance process.
- Outcome
- Improved project execution efficiency resulting from defining responsibility for getting to go/no-go decision point and through standardizing the process.
- Metric
- # and % of incidents of non-compliance compared with previous periods.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Collect metrics and lessons learned from on-going and completed RDE projects in collaboration with the rest of the business.
- Outcome
- Improves the governance process of on-going and future RDE projects on the basis of the metrics and the lessons learned and the input from the rest of the business.
- Metric
- # and % of IT and business resources assigned to RDE project governance by business unit/dept. compared with previous periods
- 5Optimized
- Practices
- Implement a continual review of the RDE governance process.
- Engage external business partners in governance of RDE projects where appropriate.
- Outcomes
- More effective use of RDE resources through improved go/no-go decision-making.
- Improvement in the industry-wide relevance of RDE projects.
- Metrics
- The RDE average process cycle time compared with previous periods.
- % of overall RDE resources used, that are expended on RDE completed projects, compared with previous periods.
- # and % of IT, business and external resources assigned to RDE project governance by business unit/dept./external source compared with previous periods.