The Complete Guide: Application and Technology Roadmaps
November 24, 2025
Map your organization’s future with the complete guide to application and technology roadmaps
Businesses that lack a clear technology roadmap are more likely to overspend on redundant tools, face interruptions to business continuity, miss strategic opportunities, and get trapped in reactive, ad-hoc decision-making. A structured roadmap aligns business technology to business strategy and gives you the confidence to anticipate technological impacts, retire legacy systems safely, prioritize modernization where it matters most, and effectively communicate impactful change and achieve buy in from stakeholders from across the organization.
Building on foundational concepts of application rationalization and application portfolio management, this guide explains how to master application and technology roadmap best practices to:
- Turn lifecycle insights into actionable plans
- Connect IT with business strategy
- Align disparate stakeholders
- Manage cost, risk, and complexity
- Drive digital transformation
Whether you’re an enterprise architect, IT leader, or business stakeholder, this guide gives you practical, proven steps to move from fragmented systems and vendor uncertainty to a clear, prioritized plan for change, whether that’s modernizing your business, building AI maturity, or planning M&As.
What you’ll get inside:
- Clear definitions and examples of technology and application roadmaps, plus the measurable business benefits they deliver.
- A frank look at the common challenges in technology roadmapping and concrete tactics to avoid or mitigate them.
- A practical 3-step playbook to create your first roadmap. Actionable steps you can start applying now.
- Visual illustration of a technology roadmap in action, showing when technologies are in development, live for the enterprise, ready to be phased out, and fully retired.
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November 24, 2025
Map your organization’s future with the complete guide to application and technology roadmaps
Businesses that lack a clear technology roadmap are more likely to overspend on redundant tools, face interruptions to business continuity, miss strategic opportunities, and get trapped in reactive, ad-hoc decision-making. A structured roadmap aligns business technology to business strategy and gives you the confidence to anticipate technological impacts, retire legacy systems safely, prioritize modernization where it matters most, and effectively communicate impactful change and achieve buy in from stakeholders from across the organization.
Building on foundational concepts of application rationalization and application portfolio management, this guide explains how to master application and technology roadmap best practices to:
- Turn lifecycle insights into actionable plans
- Connect IT with business strategy
- Align disparate stakeholders
- Manage cost, risk, and complexity
- Drive digital transformation
Whether you’re an enterprise architect, IT leader, or business stakeholder, this guide gives you practical, proven steps to move from fragmented systems and vendor uncertainty to a clear, prioritized plan for change, whether that’s modernizing your business, building AI maturity, or planning M&As.
What you’ll get inside:
- Clear definitions and examples of technology and application roadmaps, plus the measurable business benefits they deliver.
- A frank look at the common challenges in technology roadmapping and concrete tactics to avoid or mitigate them.
- A practical 3-step playbook to create your first roadmap. Actionable steps you can start applying now.
- Visual illustration of a technology roadmap in action, showing when technologies are in development, live for the enterprise, ready to be phased out, and fully retired.