Improve Your PPM Maturity Holistically Across IT/OT

Common PPM challenges organizations experience include:

Varying levels of maturity in existing processes: The number of defined processes at the portfolio planning and reporting levels can vary between IT, OT, and other business units, as can the effectiveness of these processes.
Cultural and priority differences: The metrics that your IT and OT personnel prioritize might be different even on projects where they collaborate.
Breaking siloes, not reinforcing them: Developing PPM maturity separately risks creating future friction as IT and OT departments converge and collaboration becomes mandatory.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Your PPM processes and their maturity will drive both your accuracy in constructing the most valuable portfolio mix and your ability to maintain that value through project execution.
The IT/OT convergence trend presents an opportunity to do so outside of business unit silos, allowing for a holistic view of all project activities within the organization under one umbrella while promoting collaboration and unifying priorities across departments as convergence continues.

Impact and Result

Identify the maturity of your current processes to understand your highest value opportunities to improve.
Leverage existing process capabilities by sharing across business units to accelerate your maturation.
Establish common standards for tool usage and process goals that will enable future collaboration and oversight.

Improve Your PPM Maturity Holistically Across IT/OT Research & Tools

1. Improve Your PPM Maturity Holistically Across IT/OT Deck – Understand opportunities to improve PPM holistically across IT and OT.

This deck will help you understand the importance of portfolio planning and reporting activities and why doing them at a cross-department level is beneficial. It will also outline Info-Tech’s PPM framework, which can be used to categorize and assess PPM activities and identify the ideal areas to target improvement.

2. IT/OT PPM Maturity Assessment Workbook (With Tool Analysis) – A tool for identifying current PPM maturity across IT and OT and highlighting activities for targeted improvement.

This tool will allow you to assess the current state of your PPM activities across the phases of Info-Tech’s PPM framework and your overall progress toward your target state for those activities. The outputs will also highlight the complexity and value of making improvements to certain activities and opportunities to leverage existing capabilities that may already be established in the IT or OT domains.

Improve Your PPM Maturity Holistically Across IT/OT visualization

Become more effective in realizing change while removing organizational silos as IT/OT convergence occurs.

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Author

Evan Garland

Contributors

External Contributors:

Chris Roseburg, Senior Manager of Operational Excellence, Grant County Public Utility District

Internal Contributors:

Barry Cousins, Distinguished Analyst & Research Fellow
Michael Alemany, SVP Commercial Operations & Corporate Strategy
Tod Camara, VP Global Services
Jing Wu, Executive Counsellor – Utilities
Chris Key, Executive Counsellor – Utilities
Scott Holland, Managing Partner – Utilities

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Last Revised: December 11, 2024