Maximize the Benefits from Enterprise Applications with a Center of Excellence
Optimize your organization’s enterprise application capabilities with a refined and scalable methodology.
- Processes pertaining to managing the application are inconsistent and do not drive excellence.
- There is a lack of interdepartmental collaboration between different teams pertaining to the application.
- There are no formalized roles and responsibilities for governance and support around enterprise applications.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Scale the Center of Excellence (CoE) based on business needs. There is flexibility in how extensively the CoE methodology is applied and rigidity in how consistently it should be used.
- The CoE is a refinery. It takes raw inputs from the business and produces an enhanced product, removing waste and isolating it from re-entering day-to-day operations.
- Excellence is about people as much as it is about process. Documented best practices should include competencies, key resources, and identified champions to advocate the CoE practice.
Impact and Result
- Formalize roles and responsibilities for all application initiatives.
- Develop a standard process of governance and oversight surrounding the application.
- Develop a comprehensive support network that consists of IT, the business, and external stakeholders to address issues and problem areas surrounding the application.
Member Testimonials
After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.
10.0/10
Overall Impact
$5,480
Average $ Saved
8
Average Days Saved
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Experience
Impact
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Christiana Care Health Services, Inc
Guided Implementation
10/10
$2,740
10
Lisa is a tremendous help and I look forward to our continued partnership. We certainly would not be as far along if we didn't have her guidance.
Christiana Care Health Services, Inc
Guided Implementation
10/10
$8,220
5
Lisa asked good questions, listened to the response and provided useful information and guidance
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Guided Implementation 1: Create a vision for the CoE
- Call 1: Understand the significance of building a CoE for your enterprise application. Define the scope of the CoE and identify stakeholders.
- Call 2: Align the CoE goals with corporate objectives.
- Call 3: Understand the four defining elements of the CoE Operating Model. Determine current support capability under each element.
Guided Implementation 2: Design the CoE future state
- Call 1: Analyze and classify requirements.
- Call 2: Identify CoE initiatives to address classified requirements.
- Call 3: Create a map of the ideal state that ties identified initiatives with the CoE Operating Model.
Guided Implementation 3: Develop a CoE roadmap
- Call 1: Assess the capabilities required to build the CoE.
- Call 2: Prioritize CoE initiatives and identify any dependencies.
- Call 3: Measure and track the success of each initiative using KPIs.
Contributors
- Eric Kimberling, Principal, Panorama Consulting
- Jim Miller, Principal, Data Clarity Corporation
- Jon Strickler, Principal, Horizon Line Group
- Mike Boldt , IT Director, Moog Inc.
- Peter Coppola, Associate Director, Application Services, Australian Catholic University
- Rory O’Neill, IT Director, University of Alaska
- Shibi Jose, Business Systems Analyst, City of Prince Albert
- Anonymous contributor, Government Research Institute
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