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Governance

B1

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.