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IT Business Management

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This perspective states Alescent's posture toward IT Business Management as a common external practice discipline and conventional-equivalent input to the IT Investment Management Practice Area.

Domain Classification

IT Business Management is primarily a Practices-domain construct when it refers to repeatable methods for managing technology as a business function, service portfolio, product portfolio, investment portfolio, operating capability, or economic contributor.

It often overlaps with Technology Business Management, IT Financial Management, IT Service Management, enterprise architecture, portfolio management, sourcing management, and governance.

Alescent Position

Alescent recognizes IT Business Management as a useful umbrella discipline for treating IT as a managed business capability rather than merely a technical support function.

Alescent's position is a yes, and position:

  • yes, IT Business Management helps connect technology operations to business demand, service accountability, financial discipline, portfolio decisions, and operating governance;
  • and, Value Realization requires IT business decisions to be evaluated against value logic, economic Effects, evidence, realization conditions, and sustained outcomes.

Relationship to IT Investment Management Practice Area

IT Business Management is a conventional-equivalent or adjacent input to the IT Investment Management Practice Area.

ITIM may derive inspiration from ITBM service-accountability, demand-management, portfolio-governance, business-alignment, and operating-model concepts. However, ITIM is narrower and sharper than generic IT Business Management. It focuses on how technology-related commitments of capital, cash, time, effort, capacity, platforms, products, partners, and practices are justified, governed, optimized, and converted into realized value.

Value Realization Extension

A Value Realization-based extension of IT Business Management emphasizes:

  • business value rather than IT activity;
  • investment governance rather than budget administration;
  • value realization rather than project delivery alone;
  • economic Effects rather than generic alignment language;
  • evidence-based decisions rather than preference, politics, or inherited operating assumptions;
  • governance of Players, Partners, Platforms, Products, Practices, and Projects.

Preferred Use

Use IT Business Management when derived content must address the broader business management of IT.

Use IT Investment Management when the emphasis is on Alescent's applied Practice and Practice Area for governing technology-related investments and realized economic outcomes.

Prohibited Use

Do not use IT Business Management as a vague synonym for IT governance, TBM, ITFM, or IT Investment Management.

Do not treat technology-business alignment as value realization without evidence.

Do not treat operational management maturity as realized value by itself.