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.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Begin to consider strategic priorities when making IT budget allocations and involve key IT stakeholders in the process.
- Outcome
- IT budget allocation may reflect some key strategic priorities.
- Metric
- % of strategic priorities for which budget allocations exist.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Improve alignment of IT budget allocations with strategic priorities and involve relevant stakeholders in the IT function and other business units in the process.
- Outcome
- The IT budget is more closely aligned with the IT strategy and budget allocations address most strategic priorities.
- Metric
- % of strategic priorities for which budget allocations exist.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Fully align the IT budget with strategic priorities and involve all relevant stakeholders organization-wide in the process.
- Outcome
- The IT budget includes consideration of the overall strategic priorities and reflects allocations to address these.
- Metric
- % of strategic priorities for which budget allocations exist.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Continually review the alignment of the IT budget with strategic priorities and the IT budget allocations, and revise them as required.
- Outcome
- The IT budget continually meets the strategic and operational needs of the organization.
- Metric
- % of strategic priorities for which budget allocations exist.