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Without it companies run risk of making sub-optimal technology decisions Planning process tells an organization what they did where where they failed and how to improve Technology roadmap limits range of technology decisions 8-2

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Collective vision of opportunities for technology to serve a business Mechanism for identification, justification, planned evolution & orchestration of technology to enhance business performance 8-3

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Achieves business goals by identifying gap between business plan & current technological environment Reduces complexity by reducing number & variety of technological choices Enhances interoperability of business functionality across lines of business 8-4

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Continued: Increases flexibility Increases speed of implementation thru common standards, methodologies & technology platforms Preserves investments in new & existing systems basing them on long-term considerations Responds to market changes by building from an established framework 8-5

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Continued: Focuses IT investment dollars Simplifies response to new legislation Reduces difficulties associated with deployment of new technologies by utilizing fewer technologies common platforms and similar development approaches 8-6

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Provides common design point that facilitates end-to- end integration of reusable components & applications Builds consistent, cohesive technology base creating critical mass of skills dedicated to select technologies Provides ability to move forward in planned phases by providing an orderly evolution of each technology thru life cycle approach Consolidates global solutions by synchronizing local technologies into global roadmap Lowers cost of development maintenance by increasing reusability of components 8-7

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Seven Important Activities derived from Gap between Current Technology & Business Plan: 1. Guiding Principles 2. Current Technology 3. Gap Analysis 4. Technology Landscape 5. Future Technology 6. Migration Strategy 7. Governance 8-8

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© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Establish statement of role & purpose of technology within business Define how technology supports the business overall type of technology support to be delivered with a sense of performance 8-10

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Outline current technologies & their state At a minimum identify business process area vendor, level of support, dependencies, criticality and life cycle Assign a technology owner who is responsible for each technology domain including acquisition, maintenance, vendor relationship management, training & documentation 8-11

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Perform a gap analysis between current technology & what is needed (future state) Identify the required technology Build technology in anticipation of business change & growth Bridge the gap between business being driven by innovation and growth & IT benefits being derived from standards & reusability 8-12

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Firms must invest in R & D to keep abreast of new technologies The size of this investment should be driven by how critical IT is to the business The roadmap should articulate how large this investment will be how it will be enacted who is responsible and provide guidelines to assist this initiative 8-13

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Describe technologies to be adopted in future Should include logic used to recommend these technologies to permit constructive input from business managers to challenge these recommendations Roadmap should include all assumptions 8-14

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Outline a Migration Strategy to get from current to future technology platform Two common strategies gradual evolution and the big-bang Major challenge to assign priorities to technology components that need to be changed 8-15

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Define established process to determine who is responsible for creating/updating technology roadmap and who approves changes to the roadmap Distinguish between strategic architecture governance and tactical architecture governance 8-16

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall 1. Be bold & innovative when planning roadmap 2. Align technology with the business 3. Secure support for the roadmap 4. Don’t forget the people 5. Control, measure & communicate progress 8-17

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Migrate from production-centric to process-centric applications architecture using service-based architecture Deploy component-based applications to minimize costs Utilize components based on industry standards Utilize middleware to minimize application changes 8-18

© 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Purpose of technology roadmap to guide development of technology in an organization Technology roadmap communicates role that technology will play in advancing business goals 8-19