IT Organization Supports Business Goals of a Company our cli

IT Organization Supports Business Goals of a Company our client had a growing number of IT projects being initiated and executed, but was experiencing a decline in success rate, and had no visibility to the overall project workload and the progress success of ongoing projects. There was no clear prioritization of projects, leaving individual staff and departments to determine for themselves what the priorities were. They desired to establish a governance process by which business leaders could evaluate potential projects initiate and prioritize the most important projects, and monitor the progress and success of active projects. The Challenges Previous attempts at establishing an IT Steering Committee had been unsuccessful There were no written policies regarding project initiation, approval, or prioritization There was no portfolio management process, and no single list of all active and pending projects Individual projects did not have clear scope, requirements. budget, etc. defined There was a change in IT leadership during the establishment ofthe process Approach The Kelso Group worked with senior business leaders to define and establish an IT Governance Model, including the creation of an IT Steering Committee. We drafted the process and policies for project initiation, evaluation, and prioritization, and trained our client\'s department managers on the process of requesting and presenting projects to the Steering Committee, We also compiled a detailed list of all active and pending projects (over 100). and led the initial process to categorize and prioritize these projects. Lastly, we created a project roadmap document, which showed the prioritized projects, with interdependencies, laid out over a 3-year timeline. Impact and Advantage The initiative yielded three important outcomes: I. The business now has visibility on and direct input into all major information technology initiatives. Key business leaders have direct oversight and decision-making control over which IT projects are being worked on and how they are prioritized. 2. Project scopes are clearly defined, schedules established, and costs justified before work begins. Department managers know the status oftheir requested projects, and where/ why they fall on the priority list. 3. Project initiation and throughput is controlled and managed, and as a result, project completion and success rates have risen.

Solution

1.Organization is having growing number of new IT projects. This implies that growth

rate for the company is healthy. But now due to growing number of new projects,

the ongoing projects, projects that are not even initiated and completed

projects (for maintenance and support) are not getting due importance

due to lack of governance, clear approach, well written and well defined

procedure to prioritize all the activities which will impact on the performance

of the organization. Therefor it clearly implies that organization now needs new

IT strategy to eliminate these drawbacks of current situation. This new strategy which will include well defined and well written strategy for project initiation, evaluation of prioritization of all activities, training of client\'s department managers on the process of requesting and presetting projects to the

steering committee. So, this new IT strategy will bring visibility and direct input on all

major IT initiatives. This new strategy will also bring key business leaders to have

direct oversight and decision-making control over which IT projects will be prioritize and worked up.

project scopes will be clearly defined. These steps will help organization to initiate project and

throughput is controlled and managed which will make project completed on time and therefore rising success rate.

2. The Kelso Group is performing the new IT strategy of organization.

3.

They are taking below steps for new IT strategy

-working with senior business leaders to define and establish an IT governance model

-Creation of new IT steering compete.

-Drafting the process and policies of project initialization

-evaluation and prioritization of all activities related to projects.

-Training client\'s department managers on the process of requesting and presenting

projects to the steering committee.

so these steps will frame the organization to have well defined IT governance model

and so now due to these change, Business has now visibility on direct input into

all major IT initiatives . Key business leaders have direct oversight so they have

control and parameters over decision making.

projects scopes are clearly defined.

This is because new IT strategy will present the all the aspects of projects to

steer committee and now they have all all required information to implement

the governance model