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A Workbook for Managing Business/IT Complexity
Many firms are labouring under the burden of an installed IT base that is overly complex, as a result of successive waves of IT development (for example, ERP, eBusiness,) as well as a history of acquisitions and restructuring.
The typical IT organization is spending 60-70 per cent of its entire budget on maintenance of this legacy code, including software upgrades and security patches. Though many are threatening to be overwhelmed by this burden, they have usually not mentioned this problem to business management. It is time to change this and tell the truth about a situation that could have serious consequences for the business.
This project will create a practical approach to simplifying and standardizing IT in the typical firm.
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Final Report
A Workbook for Managing Business/IT Complexity
26 Oct 2006 | Workbook
This workbook offers a step-by-step approach for addressing the complexity in your firm, for deciding where complexity is good and where it is bad, and for identifying appropriate change initiatives. It provides and explains a number of tests and models that can be used to assess your current situation. We suggest that you work through the ten basic steps described in this book, answering the questions and completing the exercises given. This will help you to understand your situation and define actions to improve it.