IT Vision and Principles
Develop the IT vision statement, building on a keen awareness of the business and technology environments. Inspire, direct, and closely monitor the formulation of the long-term scope and objectives of IT value generation (IT vision), and derive high-level guidelines for the development of hardware and software infrastructure and services (IT design principles).
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for IT Vision and Principles at each level of maturity.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Prepare a matrix linking significant IT investment to specific business goals.
- Outcome
- This enables preparation of cost benefit statements.
- Metrics
- # of investments included in the map.
- # of specific business goals included in the map.
- % of the total IT investment that is accounted for by linked investments in the map.
- Practice
- Undertake an analysis of those factors which provoke challenges to IT's authority in the matter of design principles.
- Outcome
- This enables a better understanding of obstacles to achieving compliance with design principles.
- Metric
- Levels of compliance with the design principles.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Rank capabilities in the current IT vision statement in order of investment priority — e.g. focus on market agility, then innovation etc.
- Outcome
- This provides guidance to planners when faced with investment choices.
- Metric
- # of capabilities on the ranked list.
- Practice
- Institute an architecture and standards council comprising members of IT and the business community.
- Outcome
- This enables a higher degree of compliance with design principles.
- Metric
- # of incidents of non-compliance with standards.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Research case studies where IT emerged as the key strategic backbone of the business (e.g. sponsor a PhD student).
- Outcome
- This enables ready access to exemplars when considering opportunities for the strategic deployment of IT.
- Metric
- # of case studies reviewed by IT leadership.
- Practice
- Research and publish the arguments (including financial benefits) for the development of IT design principles in the context of the organization and the industry.
- Outcome
- This promotes buy-in to the principles of standards compliance.
- Metrics
- Extent of standards compliance within the organization.
- Extent of standards compliance (generally) within the industry.