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How Do You Measure Your IT Portfolio?

April 23, 2010
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Guest Post by Rafael Burde, Niket Desai & Drew Gilliam Diamond Management & Technology Consultants We would like to share our recent experiences in designing and building a dashboard focused on the $600M discretionary portion of our client’s IT budget.  The company recently merged two IT groups with similar measurement and tracking functions into one they called “Portfolio and Program Management.”  Unfortunately, this combination created a pile of quality and consistency issues that produced data ...

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CIO Guide to IT Dashboards

March 30, 2010
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You strive to create a transparent IT organization.  What is spent on strategic and operational systems should be clearly visible and its value easily measured.  Availability of data about spending, productivity, problems and successes should be available to all business leaders in the language they speak.  Enter the CIO Dashboard. To address the challenge of increasing awareness of information visualization resources for the CIO and IT leaders, here is the CIO Guide to IT Dashboards. ...

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A Resurgence of Portfolio Management?

January 21, 2010
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by Chris Curran and Jim Quick Portfolio management was all the rage 5-6 years ago, driven in part by some good management thinking from people like Peter Weill at MIT CISR and Dr. Howard Rubin and in part by some software tool vendors.  Back then, most organizations added some kind of portfolio thinking or at least dabbled with it.  While most of the interest seemed to be in the IT organization, some organizations actually drove ...

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4 Steps to Manage Your Technology Portfolio

May 27, 2009
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This post is about managing the life and death of technologies in an enterprise. Not projects or applications, but the portfolio of the underlying technologies – operating systems, DBMSs, development tools, middleware, etc. These must be managed too or you will find yourself in the same situation as a client CIO of a large retailer did a few years ago.  The servers than ran the in-store processors – the computers in the back office of ...

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