Today’s organizations are critically dependent upon IT to maintain differentiation within a highly competitive market. These organizations must continually strive to leverage the latest technologies that deliver a return on investment. In this environment, IT is expected to be a true business partner able to collaborate, analyze issues, and provide recommendations that enhance both the top and bottom line growth of the enterprise.
To align their operations with the business, IT executives have a pressing need to:
- Utilize their application, intellectual, and financial assets to maximize corporate objectives and deliver business growth.
- Build business skills in the IT organization to reflect competencies and values that reflects both the current and future organization.
- Develop a pool of talent that will allow IT to quickly respond to competitive forces, innovations and changing rules.
- Accelerate and support information flow to improve quality of decisions that fuel growth.
The relentless pace of business change makes it difficult to manage shifting demands. CIOs must continuously assess whether their portfolios facilitate the highest business returns possible, optimize asset utilization and program execution. Primavera clarifies
the costs, risks, redundancies, resource mix, and strategic value associated with your current application portfolio and demand pipeline.
With Primavera, you will transform and manage your entire IT portfolio, making sure that it always provides the best possible support for the strategic and financial goals of the enterprise.
Solution proposed: Primavera P6 & Primavera ProSight
Some clients: msg Systems, Neptune Orient Lines
Business Challenges
Realize full value from your application investment portfolio
Primavera enables you to identify and rationalize which applications and projects to keep, retire, outsource or demand a different resource mix:
- Measure the contributions of applications to business objectives, and define the total cost of ownership
- Prevent applications from performing redundant or overlapping functions
- Balance the application portfolio
Create and enforce a more disciplined IT governance process
With Primavera you can capture critical information at the planning stage using best practices templates:
- Involve stakeholders in a disciplined selection and prioritization process
- Collaboratively develop common metrics that demonstrate project, and application performance and cost
- Quickly and clearly communicate decisions
Manage expectations and demonstrate the value of IT to your customers
Primavera enables you to:
- Drill down and quickly understand performance by business unit
- Convey investment progress and results to your C-level colleagues in easy-to-understand formats
Improve execution and delivery
With Primavera, you can identify problem areas before it is too late, by having a clear picture of performance criteria and current project status. Primavera can model the impact of mid-course adjustments and propose necessary changes and additions.
Balance skills against portfolio requirements
Primavera enables you to have the right skills in place to satisfy the resource demands for the proposed portfolio of work while ensuring the optimal use of global resources and minimize cost.
Provide visibility into the status of projects
Primavera enables you to:
- Provide stakeholders with pre-configured dashboards that deliver up-to-date status information on all IT initiatives
- Allow stakeholders to drill down from a high-level view into more detail
Assess the ROI of key projects and identify associated risks
With Primavera you can proactively identify the critical tasks within the project and assess the risk probabilities that would impact your project success:
