Business Alignment
Engage stakeholders from the wider business in setting the IT budget to ensure that strategic priorities are reflected in the IT budget priorities.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Business Alignment at each level of maturity.
- 1Initial
- Practice
- Rely on the best endeavours of assigned personnel.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Ensure that the IT budget is proportional to the growth or shrinkage of the business
- Outcome
- IT budget growth is related to the organization's overall budget.
- Metric
- % of consumption growth in the IT budget.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Ensure that project allocations are linked to the IT strategy.
- Outcome
- There is an active link to the IT strategy which keeps the IT budget is in line with the IT strategy.
- Metric
- % of IT budget aligned to the IT strategy.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Ensure that the budget allocations are linked to the IT strategy and the organization's objectives.
- Outcome
- The IT budget includes consideration of the overall business priorities.
- Metric
- % of projects meeting the IT budgets organizational targets.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Ensure that the IT budget allocation and plans clearly reflect the business ecosystem strategy
- Outcome
- The IT budget is central to achieving business ecosystem objectives.
- Metric
- % of projects meeting the IT budgets business ecosystem targets.