The document discusses how understanding dependencies within an IT portfolio can provide benefits. It notes that constant change puts projects at risk, and making portfolio management a collaborative practice can help keep projects on track. Integrating planning across different IT areas can reduce failures caused by conflicting interests. The document advocates breaking down information silos to improve transparency, lower collision potential between projects, free up more budget for innovation, enable more informed decision making, and achieve better strategic alignment.

1. How insight into your
IT portfolio pays off
Understanding project dependencies
Dr. Christian Weichelt, Director Marketing Alfabet
14. November 2014
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2. Staying on course in a dynamic environment
What’s the pain?
Constant change puts
any project at risk.
What’s the plan?
Make portfolio management
a collaborative practice.
What’s the gain?
Effective transformation
and less surprises.
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3. Why overcoming silos in IT planning matters
96% of organizations rely on disjoint IT management
processes and tools
67% of all Nordic IT decision makers experience failure in
business critical projects because of conflicting interests
Failed projects erode IT budgets by 4-5% p.a., costing
the companies surveyed € 1.8 billion annually.
Nine out of ten CIOs or other IT decision makers do not
have the right equipment to make and execute optimal
strategic decisions aligned with the business.
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4. Change happens … all the time, at all times
nization
Moder
Automation
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5. What are your dependencies?
Capabilities
Strategies
Demands
Applications
Technologies
Regulations
Devices
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Risks
Budgets
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6. Information silos
Business
Capabilities
Strategies
Finance &
Demands
Risk
Applications
Technologies
Architecture
Risks
Regulations
Devices
Budgets
Projects
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7. Collaborative IT planning
Capabilities
Business
Strategies
Finance &
Demands
Risk
Applications
Technologies
Architecture
Risks
Regulations
Devices
Budgets
Projects
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8. Improved transparency leads to …
… lower collision potential
… more budget for innovation
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… informed decision making
… better strategic alignment

9. Enterprise planning at
Microsoft
Capabilities
Strategies
Applications
Budgets
Technologies
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