From Chaos to Harmony
I discovered over the weekend that November 9th was Chaos Never Dies Day. According to one description, “Chaos Never Dies Day takes the stance that the perfect, quiet moment we’re all striving for and anticipating doesn’t – and likely never will – exist, and that we should make the most of now, chaos-and-all, and embrace the moment.”
What a perfect time to reflect upon the seemingly never-ending quest to manage change and chaos within the enterprise. Keeping with the spirit of the holiday, perhaps an appropriate approach is to embrace and optimize chaos rather than seek to eliminate it from our lives.
At Troux, we help temper chaos by providing our customers with Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) solutions to implement and maintain a successful Enterprise Architecture (EA) program. Done right, EA can empower organizations to analyze the chaos and make smart decisions across operational and transformational initiatives.
Navigating your way through massive amounts of data and technological change coming from various silos to get to a set of relevant, complete, accurate, and timely information has historically created decision-making challenges in business. Today that problem grows more acute as the pace and breadth of change increases and expands. Since these dynamics affect the entire enterprise, it’s important that decisions are made with an understanding of the connected enterprise – not in isolation. Leaders need business context to understand how each decision impacts the whole of enterprise.
With Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM), organizations move from chaos to harmony by understanding and optimizing the connected set of enterprise portfolios: goals and strategies, business architecture, applications, technology, information, and investments. With a full scope of your assets – both tangible and intangible – you can understand how change affects all parts of your connected enterprise.
It’s that simple… and that involved. It isn’t an easy task and everyone must be onboard to make it work. But, it can work. We have seen it time and again.
Take a look at some how our customers leveraged EPM to embrace the chaos:
Mosaic – The Fast Track to Success: Mosaic is a multi-billion dollar global Fortune 500 company that helps the world grow the food it needs. When the company’s CIO laid out a vision for IT a plan was developed to support the change from a tactical approach to decision-making toward a strategic approach that would focus on business outcomes and measurable contribution to Mosaic’s long-term success. Mosaic partnered with Troux to establish an Application Portfolio Management program that identified millions of dollars in recurring cost savings in just 17 weeks.
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership – Transparency Across the Connected Enterprise: Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) is one of Europe’s largest asset management companies and part of Lloyds Banking Group. Managing funds worth more than £145 billion. When business leaders decided to significantly increase their change budget, strategic planners knew they would need access to improved decision making data and level of transparency across the enterprise they never had before. Engaging with Troux, SWIP embarked on holistic approach and was able to capture and store mission-critical decision making data from across the enterprise in just 12 week.
It’s not easy to function amid chaos, and it is next to impossible to eliminate it, but at Troux we believe in finding ways to make chaos work for you.
