Infrastructure Portfolio Management
Infrastructure Portfolio Management is used to control and manage infrastructures, to answer the overall question: "Are we getting sufficient results and value from our investment in infrastructure?" Of particular importance for companies with multiple geographies both domestic and global, are the standard tools and templates we apply that assure a common method for assessing and managing infrastructure for both centrally-managed and locally-admininistered infrastructures. Bob Benson and Tom Bugnitz provide specific tools and processes, depending on your needs, to accomplish:
- A complete inventory of the infrastructure services IT provides the business, including the support of new projects, existing applications, user services, and management services
- Thorough assessments of
- Strategic alignment with both business and IT strategic intentions
- Service level and quality, including reliability, accuracy
- Costs
- Technical risks
- Security risks
- IT investment strategies
- Security technical and business risk assessments
- An assessment of governance practices for making IT investment decisions