Harnessing IT for business advantage all comes down to technology-enabled applications. So it's no surprise that an organization's application management strategy has a direct impact on how well the enterprise operates and competes.

The size and complexity of the applications portfolio and the number of projects in play at any given time are increasing. But the investment-recovery time of applications has collapsed dramatically — to less than two years. Application managers are under more pressure than ever to rapidly deliver results across the entire applications portfolio while reducing the natural disruptions of change.

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  • Well Balanced Portfolio
  • "The greatest challenge for today's application managers is moving beyond project-by-project fire fighting to a well-balanced business-aligned portfolio orchestrated across all their developed and purchased applications."
  • — Jeff Comport, VP Distinguished Analyst
  • Business Operations
  • "The challenge for Application Management is to operate flawlessly and to innovate relentlessly -- all within the context of the organization's short- and long-term objectives."
  • Governance
  • "Don't impose governance on your applications processes from the outside. Instead, make sure governance is active, and part of the everyday applications management process."
  • Process Agility
  • "The dominant challenge for the IT organization is to respond to increasing demands from the business for process agility and excellence. This will change the way that IT organizations structure and govern themselves and how they approach their applications portfolio."