Establish a Center of Excellence for Enterprise Applications
Optimize your organization’s enterprise application capabilities with a refined and scalable methodology.
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If the organization overlooks the need for a Center of Excellence (CoE) for its enterprise application, the impact will be felt company-wide, including:
- A lack of governance to identify and promote business priorities.
- A lack of accountability and traceability due to unclear ownership.
- Process redundancies, duplication, and inefficient workarounds.
Investing in an enterprise application CoE can help the organization:
- Consolidate best practices around the application.
- Develop a governance mechanism for managing changes in the application ecosystem.
- Pinpoint and deliver opportunities for process efficiencies across the organization.
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Create a Vision for the CoE
The Purpose
- Understand the importance of developing a CoE for enterprise applications.
- Determine how to best align the CoE mandate with business objectives.
- Complete a CoE project charter to gain buy-in, build a project team, and track project success.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Key stakeholders identified.
- Project team created with defined roles and responsibilities.
- Project charter finalized to gain buy-in.
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| 1.1 | Evaluate business needs and priorities. |
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| 1.2 | Identify key stakeholders and the project team. |
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| 1.3 | Align CoE with business priorities. |
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| 1.4 | Map current state CoE. |
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Module 2: Design the CoE Future State
The Purpose
- Gain a thorough understanding of pains related to the lack of application governance.
- Identify and recycle existing CoE practices.
- Visualize the CoE enhancement process.
- Visualize your ideal state CoE.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Requirements to strengthen the case for the enterprise application CoE.
- CoE value-add refinery.
- Future potential of the CoE.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Gather requirements. |
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| 2.2 | Map the CoE enhancement process. |
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| 2.3 | Sketch future state CoE. |
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Module 3: Develop a CoE Roadmap
The Purpose
- Assess required capabilities and resourcing.
- List and prioritize CoE initiatives.
- Track and monitor CoE performance.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Next steps for the enterprise application CoE.
- CoE resourcing plan.
- CoE benefits realization tracking.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Build CoE capabilities. |
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| 3.2 | Identify risks and mitigation efforts. |
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| 3.3 | Prioritize and track CoE initiatives. |
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| 3.4 | Finalize stakeholder presentation. |
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