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Critical success factors (CSFs)are the specific conditions or variables that are essential for achieving business objectives. Effective KPIs must align with these CSFs to ensure they measure what truly matters to project and business success.

KRIs relate to risk, and while important, they serve a different purpose. Future-state architecture and portfolio principles guide strategy, butCSFs provide the foundational context for performance measurement.

Performing stage-gate reviews throughout the life cycle of each project is the best way to ensure IT investment management processes are fully realizing the benefits identified in business cases. Stage-gate reviews provide structured checkpoints at critical phases of a project, allowing for the evaluation of progress, performance against objectives, and the continued viability and alignment with business goals. This approach enables timely adjustments to be made, ensuring that projects stay on track to deliver the expected benefits. While CIO review and approval, evaluating delegation of authority, and documenting lessons learned are valuable, they do not offer the continuous oversight and opportunity for course correction that stage-gate reviews do.

 The first thing that should be done to reduce the complexity of the IT landscape is to conduct strategic planning with business units. Strategic planning is the process of defining the vision, mission, goals, and objectives of the enterprise and how they will be achieved. It also involves aligning the IT strategy with the business strategy and ensuring that they support each other. By conducting strategic planning with business units, the enterprise can identify and prioritize the IT needs and expectations of each business unit, as well as the commonalities and synergies among them. This can help to reduce the complexity of the IT landscape by eliminating duplicate technologies, resolving conflicting priorities, and creating a coherent and consistent IT architecture that meets the business requirements and delivers value. The other options are not as effective as conducting strategic planning with business units for reducing the complexity of the IT landscape. Promoting automation tools used by the business units may improve efficiency and productivity, but it does not address the underlying issues of duplication and conflict. Migrating all in-house systems to an external cloud environment may reduce costs and increase scalability, but it does not ensure alignment and integration of IT systems across business units. Standardizing technology architecture on common products may simplify IT operations and maintenance, but it does not consider the specific needs and preferences of each business unit.

A due diligence process is the best way to enable a clear understanding of the vendor’s capabilities that will be critical to the enterprise’s strategy. A due diligence process is a systematic and comprehensive investigation and evaluation of the vendor’s background, reputation, performance, quality, reliability, security, compliance, and suitability for the enterprise’s needs and expectations. A due diligence process can help the enterprise:

Verify the vendor’s claims and credentials, and validate the vendor’s references and testimonials

Assess the vendor’s financial stability, legal status, and ethical standards

Identify the vendor’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

Compare the vendor’s offerings, capabilities, and prices with other vendors and market benchmarks

Determine the risks and benefits of engaging with the vendor, and the mitigation and contingency plans

Negotiate the terms and conditions of the contract, service level agreement (SLA), and key performance indicators (KPIs)