Many IT departments focus on coping with the pace of changing business requirements and trying to do 'things' right. While doing things right is important, most enterprises are in highly competitive industries where they must also do the right things, better than their opposition.

Business leadership needs to be confident in understanding what IT can contribute, to ensure alignment with the business, and to achieve the efficiency and effectiveness of common understanding.

IT Governance and Portfolio Management offer techniques to create a common basis for managing IT activity in pursuing the business strategy and objectives.

IT Governance and Portfolio Management define the process that enables the right projects to be selected and reviewed to realise strategy and business goals, taking into account resource availability in people and finance. It is about optimising the investment in change initiatives and subordinating individual projects to the business strategy rather than departmental objectives or any other suboptimised perspective.

Plutonic Zoo applies a number of techniques and concepts including the COBIT (Control Objectives for IT) Framework.

IT Governance and Portfolio Management ensure your organisation is running the right IT initiatives and avoid multiple project muddle and project resource contention with day-to-day activity, that is so common in some organisations.

Project Management is not enough. Each enterprise needs Portfolio Management, to implement a strategic initiatives framework to secure optimal business value from IT.

IT Governance and Portfolio Management provide the ability to create a common basis for managing IT activity in close concert with the business strategy and objectives.

As an Independent Business Technology Services practice we help you to align business and IT in your enterprise, e.g.:

• We help you to compile your IT initiatives, classify it, and align it with your strategic business objectives.
• We help you to devise and implement IT Governance processes which:
  • Ensure that everyone is working from the same viewpoint, i.e. what is best for the enterprise
  • Allow you to implement objective criteria to qualify project priorities.

• Communication - the processes create meaningful dialogue between business and IT on a common, objective basis.
• Focus on the strategy - business and IT make their own contribution towards the same strategic objectives.
• Business ownership - Technology can be an enabler, but the business decides on the portfolio priorities.
• Visibility - the process is published. The evaluations are on agreed criteria. Understanding is shared.
• Control - all the elements are present to cope effectively and efficiently with changes in business strategy.

We leverage our experience to complement your in-house expertise in workshops, interviews and (group) discussions to develop with you any of the following:

• Inventory of IT initiatives
• Project approval and evaluation processes
• Technology investment criteria and justification processes
• Portfolio evaluation criteria
• IT Governance processes and structures
• Project Management Office
• Strategy alignment processes

• Decide you would like to discuss this subject with us then contact us.

• In an initial complimentary discussion about your organisation and our experience, we will define with you the most suitable approach.

• Contact Plutonic Zoo to explore what can be accomplished for your organisation.