Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success

IT Portfolio Management as Strategic Positioning

In the American business enterprise, a company’s applications portfolio is hard at work every day, throughout the organization. In its most obvious form, it’s the raison d’être for data and operations center facilities. The job of IT divisions is to make sure that all of this work proceeds at a smooth, sustainable, uninterrupted pace—and that’s a really big job. Forrester Research reports that the typical IT organization expends almost 78 percent of its human and capital resources maintaining an ever-growing inventory of applications and supporting infrastructure. According to a recent report by AMR Research, however, a sizable majority of these organizations have little insight into the overall ...