I am sure that in the wake of IT revolution there had been a proliferation in IT investments in response to market forces be it from the business environment or the technology environment. This was especially true during the internet boom days and SOA boom days. Other technology developments that required investments have been in the areas of integration backbones, ESBs, BIs, portals, tools, legacy system modernization (web enabling, etc), BPMs, etc. (Action: Prepare a comprehensive list and consolidate). Also the business environment has required some IT investments - Disaster Recovery, ERP packages, regulatory changes (utility industry deregulation, faster payements), cost rationalisation via outsourcing, new markets on the web, etc.
With these fluid forces influeincing the financial objectives of an enterprise it is highly important to firstly to understand the existing and future IT investments underpinning the current and future business goals (current efficiency of business operations and preparedness for the future business strategy and change). Secondly classify the assets into a list of useful categories/views to enable to give the necessary insight and confidence into what we are doing and also enable us to make appropriate sound decisions on the future of the IT investments. (Action : Prepare a list of useful categories. Which is the best view - applications, OSI stack, business units, business process?).
Large organizations would have made huge IT investments and would invariably have a compelling business case for consolidating their assets. (Action : Why can't we make use of the BT proposal on asset consolidation to other similar large organizations who would be interested such an initiative? Not all these kind of deals can be fulfilled by Accenture alone!)
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