Establish a Center of Excellence for Enterprise Applications
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.
Module 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.
Activities:
Outputs:
1.1
Evaluate business needs and priorities.
Project vision
1.2
Identify key stakeholders and the project team.
Defined roles and responsibilities
1.3
Align CoE with business priorities.
Strategic alignment of CoE and the business
1.4
Map current state CoE.
CoE current state schematic
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:
2.1
Gather requirements.
Classified pains, opportunities, and existing practices
2.2
Map the CoE enhancement process.
CoE refinery model
2.3
Sketch future state CoE.
Future state CoE sketch
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:
3.1
Build CoE capabilities.
CoE potential capabilities
3.2
Identify risks and mitigation efforts.
Risk management plan
3.3
Prioritize and track CoE initiatives.
CoE initiatives roadmap
3.4
Finalize stakeholder presentation.
CoE stakeholder presentation
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