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4.5IT investment management & solution use
Covers managing not only the acceptance of individual projects but the whole company's IT investment as an IT investment portfolio balanced across "Run / Grow / Transform," program management that bundles multiple projects toward realizing a strategic benefit, the planning and requirements-definition processes of the common frame (SLCP), and the judgment of cloud/SaaS use and in-house vs. outsourced. The key is the investment judgment of balancing risk and return under budget constraints.
Whether IT investment is skillful is not decided solely by whether each project is good or bad. Within a limited investment budget, the overall design of how to balance the whole company's portfolio of investments—how to allocate defensive investment that supports stable operation and offensive investment that grows and transforms the business—sways management. This section covers managing the whole company's IT investment as an IT investment portfolio, program management that bundles multiple projects toward a strategic benefit, the planning and requirements-definition processes of the common frame (SLCP) that is the shared language of the upstream, and the direction of procurement such as cloud/SaaS use and in-house vs. outsourced—framed as the strategist's judgment of balancing the risk and return of investment under budget constraints.
4.5.1IT investment portfolio and program management
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