IT Value Mapping

IT Value Mapping is a technique that quantifies and visually depicts IT capability of an organization.

It creates diagrams, or value maps, to depict the state of key business and IT components at any given point in time. More importantly, it also depicts the impact of each component’s “state” on business value.

• Current IT Capability – alignment and value – can be assessed by analyzing and comparing these diagrams
• Similarly, an assessment of planned IT decisions can also be made by viewing their impact on IT Capability through these diagrams – without a single dollar being spent on implementation

The technique is based on a unified framework that provides one view of the business:

• Top to bottom: Seamlessly links business and IT capability
• Left to right: links key components of IT capability – from strategy to implementation

It also recognizes the hierarchy of these components and links them - from IT Capability to applications, servers etc.

External events or decisions, all, have an impact on IT value. IT Value Mapping shows us the “what”, “where”, “when” and “how” of this impact.

By making this connection between “decisions” and their impact on “value”, it helps us improve IT ROI.