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Roles, Responsibilities, and Accountabilities

B3

Define and reinforce the roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities for benefits realization throughout the life cycle of investments.

Improvement Planning

Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)

Representative POMs are described for Roles, Responsibilities, and Accountabilities at each level of maturity.

2Basic
  • Practice
    Assign accountability for realization of benefits to the IT project manager or informally to individual IT staff members.
    Outcome
    Some individuals take informal responsibility for benefits realization in relation to initial investment decision-making.
    Metric
    % of investment decisions where benefits realization is considered.
3Intermediate
  • Practice
    Define business roles related to investments in IT-enabled change.
    Outcome
    There is increasing focus on realizing benefits from individual investments in IT-enabled change, but IT and business roles and responsibilities are unclear.
    Metric
    % of investment decisions where the business role in achieving benefits has been defined.
  • Practice
    Ensure both the business and IT share accountability for implementing IT-enabled changes.
    Outcome
    The effectiveness of benefits realization is increased, but it is impacted because only a limited number of individuals have the skills and knowledge to perform the defined roles.
    Metric
    % of investment decisions where the business accountability for achieving benefits has been defined.
4Advanced
  • Practices
    • Define clear IT and business roles and responsibilities (RACI) related to benefits realization and optimization from individual IT-enabled change investments and resulting assets across the full life cycle of an investment decision.
    • Align the reward/incentive system with the roles and responsibilities to recognize and reward desired behaviour.
    Outcome
    Responsibilities and accountabilities for optimizing benefits across the full life cycle of individual investments are clearly assigned, accepted, and monitored.
    Metric
    % of investment decisions where RACI has been defined.
  • Practice
    Provide education (why and what), training (what and how), and (ongoing) mentoring (support and reinforcement) to enable individuals to perform their roles effectively.
    Outcome
    There is increased effectiveness of benefits realization as individuals in roles understand what is expected of them, and have the skills, knowledge, and support required to perform their roles.
    Metric
    % of staff who have received training and/or education.
5Optimized
  • Practice
    Define clear roles and responsibilities (RACI) related to benefits realization and maximization from the investment and asset portfolios.
    Outcome
    Accountability for maximizing the value from investments and asset portfolios is clearly assigned across the full life cycle, and is accepted and monitored.
    Metric
    % of investment decisions where RACI is being monitored.