Executing technology mapping and governance

Companies have an ambition and a strategy to fulfill that ambition. In the modern, digital company, technology will undoubtedly play an important role in fulfilling that ambition. But, as with every other aspect within the governance of a company, the deployment and management of technology needs proper planning. First, technology must be assessed against the goals a company wants to achieve. In other words: technology must add value to the business goals. Second, a company must be ready to adopt new technology. This means that it must have trained, skilled staff that is able to work with it. With that, we have identified the two main blockers to the successful implementation of technology, including the cloud:

• It might not add value to the business
• There are no human resources available who can work with it

Technology mapping can help here. It typically starts with defining the use cases: what will the technology...