Application Value Assessment - Business Strategy Alignment
Making IT more effective
It’s About … Collaboration
Managing the IT function effectively, as well as efficiently, can be a difficult trade-off. On the one hand, businesses need to cut costs. However, they also need to be nimble and flexible, which means keeping IT aligned with rapidly changing business objectives. Business executives today are looking for partners who will work collaboratively with them over the long term to manage their valuable IT investments; partners like Fujitsu.
It’s About… Solutions
An Application Value Assessment can determine how well your existing applications are meeting your business needs and what has to be done to improve their delivery effectiveness and contribution to the organisation. Application Value Assessment is a unique approach to assessing the contribution and impact your organisation’s application assets have on meeting your business objectives.
We adopt a portfolio approach to the evaluation and optimisation of your IT expenditure, analysing each application in the context of your entire portfolio and the business objectives it supports. The result is an objective, value-based assessment that can help you reduce costs while enhancing the business value of your application portfolio.
Our assessment provides you with strategic information about the value an application portfolio has to your organisation’s bottom line. It will enable you to take action, based on different options, to align your application portfolio strategies with business demands.
Critical Questions
- Is my application portfolio aligned to my business strategy?
- Do the applications in my portfolio have a direct impact on desired business outcomes?
- Am I able to focus on current business demands? Or am I preoccupied with maintaining existing applications?
- Do I know how to ensure that my production systems operate consistently, accurately and reliably?
- Can I recruit and retain the right mix of resources with suitable skills to maintain my systems… now and in the future?
- Do I know what support models best suit my business needs?
- Are the ownership and accountabilities for support clearly understood by my organisation? Are service levels being set and met?
- Do I know what the total cost of ownership is for the applications in my portfolio?
- Are you realising the appropriate return from your IT investment?
If you answered 'No' to any of these questions, then an Application Value Assessment can help your organisation.
Key Benefits
The Application Value Assessment provides:
- A review of how well your application portfolio is serving your business needs, and recommendations and plans to achieve measurable business benefits from your portfolio;
- An independent view of how effectively your team is managing the application portfolio;
- A benchmark of all or part of the portfolio that can be used to identify improvement targets and allow for future measurement;
- An assessment of the entire application portfolio. This will provide evidence of how well the delivery capability and its supporting processes, tools and administration meet the demands of the business. It will also assess the opportunity for productivity and quality improvements and determine the impact these can have on the total cost of ownership;
- Recommended actions to re-align the application management delivery function to the demands of the business; and
- A flexible approach that can be customised to meet your requirements.
It’s About… Outcomes
Fujitsu's Application Value Assessment will provide information, options and recommendations in relation to the performance of your delivery framework and application portfolio. It will:
- Identify the true value a portfolio of applications contributes to your bottom line;
- Determine how total cost of ownership can be better managed;
- Enable the overall performance of the application portfolio to be improved in a planned and coordinated manner;
- Identify strategies to enable more effective deployment of resources to meet emerging demands;
- Provide a baseline that can be used to measure the success of a subsequent improvement program; and
- Provide specific options for each application to improve the balance between delivery capability and demand for change.
Please contact your Fujitsu client executive directly, email Legacy.Modernisation@au.Fujitsu.com or download the questionnaire and send it to the above email address for an estimated timeframe and costing.
