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In order to ensure the continuous strategic enablement of Business IT, you must institute and nurture a culture of sustainability. Adaptivity believes that this can be achieved by focusing on four key areas:
- Product Management Discipline & Evangelism -- advance your SOIT repeatability discipline to product level development
- Open Source Services Portfolio -- impact marketplace dynamics by investing/contributing in open source projects.
- Portfolio Management -- treat IT as an investment and use an investment discipline to manage it: Assess Leverage, Returns, Performance
- Centers of Excellence -- create communities and sustainability vehicles to highlight achievement while enforcing re-use compliance.
Using this model will ensure that funding is transparent, re-use is institutionalized and open source and commercial vendors gravitate to your cause. Once implemented, our clients can expect the following benefits:
- Conversion of initial alignment exercises into a codified iterative business and IT partnership.
- Consumption and contribution are evangelized in order to make it easy to do both.
- Executive buy-in on compensation plans for re-use that emphasize consumption and contributions.
- Institute architectural governance that enables and teaches sustainability.
- Architecture and product management work is leveraged to create an internal and external open source community that encourages Vendor participation in your innovations.
- Emphasis on internal open source to promote business service automation harvesting and domain knowledge reuse.
- Leverage the economic model and value calculator for continuous improvement.
- Input of drivers and current operating model strengths and weakness into modified plans that inform the on-going migration strategy.
- Build communities where excellence matters and achievements are promoted internally and externally.
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