Gartner: IT-Entscheider müssen IT-Modernisierung zum Schwerpunkt ihrer Zielsetzung für 2008 machen

“The scale and complexity of the issues involved means that IT modernization is a CIO agenda item and will remain a CIO agenda item for the near future,” Mr. Vecchio said. “CIOs should expect to drive the IT modernization agenda directly, using the full resources of the IT management team. This issue is far too important and pervasive to be delegated to a side-office function.”

Gartner recommends that CIOs identify the key asset portfolios across the IT domain, and assign management responsibility across the IT management team for each asset portfolio. The staff should be certain that the CIO will hold them individually responsible for participation in the activity. CIOs must also identify the best individual available to take responsibility for comprehensive IT planning across all portfolios, and make this individual a direct report.

CIOs should also organize a planning session where all the asset owners can explain the maturity and modernization issues inside their own portfolios to all the other asset owners. This will expose opportunities for synergy in all the interactions between each of the portfolio strategies.

“IT modernization is not so much a journey as a change to the value system of IT management,” Mr. Kyte said. “Once managers have fully grasped the value of the portfolios that they manage and the interconnectivity of all portfolios, they change their agendas so that they spend a lot more time focused on the key activities of asset life cycle planning, ensuring maximum value can be derived from every investment.”

Additional information is available in the Gartner reports “What the CIO Should Know and Do About IT Modernization” (http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=g_search&id=597615&subref=simplesearch).

 and “Key Issues for IT Modernization, 2008” (http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=g_search&id=601207&subref=simplesearch).

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