@inbook{21a0fba56870445c85e209cb264e074d,
title = "How to manage the application portfolio over time: A qualitative analysis",
abstract = "The ability to understand, or even to anticipate, business needs is the necessary input to create value for the whole organization and so to transform IT into «business technology». In this context, it is important to capture expectations and to rationalize the application portfolio, in order to avoid obsolescence, manage related costs, and support the convergence with companies{\textquoteright} business goals. The purpose of this paper is to understand if it is possible to define a useful model to manage the application portfolio over time. To answer this question, the case of Edison S.p.A. has been analyzed. Against a critical situation, the IT Management of the company investigated a way of increasing the control over the application portfolio and defined a strategy for its migration to an integrated platform, in order to increase the level of alignment between IT and business processes and to prepare for changing requirements in the future.",
keywords = "Application portfolio, Business strategy, Change management, IT governance, IT management",
author = "Roberto Candiotto and Silvia Gandini and Giulia Palmarini",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.",
year = "2016",
month = jul,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-40265-9_13",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation",
publisher = "Springer Heidelberg",
pages = "181--191",
booktitle = "Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation",
address = "Germany",
}