Enterprise Program and Portfolio Management

IT and business leaders face unprecedented challenges in 2009 and beyond. Macro market drivers, such as the economy, globalization, mergers and acquisitions, competition and regulations, are having enormous impact on business. Technology drivers, such as cloud computing, virtualization and on-demand, are changing business models and service delivery options. Business drivers, such as the need to reduce cost, minimize risk, control transformation and optimize business services, are driving enterprises to innovate.

According to Gartner’s Executive Report, “Meeting the Challenges: The 2009 CIO Agenda,” which surveyed 1,526 CIOs representing more than $138 billion in corporate and public sector IT spending, business leaders’ top priorities for the CIO were to continue to improve business processes, reduce the cost structure and improve workforce effectiveness.

Critical issues now facing IT need to be addressed promptly to meet business expectations:

• Optimizing IT decisions for successful business outcomes
• Establishing cost transparency and communication on business value of cost
• Identifying, measuring and controlling risk to achieve timely and expected business results
• Controlling complex IT transformations

What’s required is a new approach and framework for IT management. The new IT management solution needs to align, perform and govern IT activities built on the service-based value chain which provides the ability to directly compare cost with business benefits. IT investments are managed as services rather than projects and the relationships among cost, quality, and business value can be consistently measured and managed.

The Project Management Office (PMO) can now be measured in terms of cost and service rather than resource and schedule control. IT systems utilization and performance can be correlated with business service and performance and hence cost. And, all outsourcing relationships can be measured and managed in terms of service levels, cost and quality.

For forward-thinking IT leaders, Gravitant’s BusinessMatrix™ Platform is the revolutionary EPPM platform that delivers business performance goals that align and control IT service delivery, reduce cost, minimize risk, control transformations and drive business efficiency.

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Learn more about Gravitant^® Solutions:

IT Management for Project Management Office (IT PMO)

IT Management for Network Service Operations (IT NSO)

IT Management for Vendor Management Office (IT VMO)