10 Strategic IT portfolio
This chapter covers
- Viewing architecture as a portfolio
- Classifying utility and strategic IT
- Using Core Domain Charts to map out the portfolio of core, supporting, and generic subdomains
- Investing optimally in each subdomain: financially, organizationally, and technically
A key challenge for modernization leaders is ensuring that modernization efforts deliver the greatest business impact, which means avoiding underinvesting in high-priority areas and overinvesting in areas with limited return on investment. A bad decision could result in thousands of people-hours wasted modernizing low-value capabilities and missed opportunity costs of moving the business forward in key strategic areas. For technologists, it’s crucial ...
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