The Principles of IT4IT™

Since its conception, more than a trillion dollars has been spent on IT framework training, certification and implementation, with particularly important work being done with ITIL and COBIT. But the full recovery of this value has sometimes been elusive.

Other mature industry verticals, such as retail or telecom, and professionalized management functions such as HR and Finance, all have a standard approach and reference architecture. The lack of such in IT is driving up cost.

IT4IT is the IT industry’s response. It is a prescriptive IT reference architecture.

It reduces cost, simplifies, and brings end-to-end traceability to your IT production.

Furthermore, it is becoming increasingly apparent that IT is a production-organized business. Like a manufacturer, IT takes demand from the business lines, then produces and delivers services.

And what kind of method would a manufacturer employ to increase efficiency and drive-down cost?

It would use the Value Chain concept. The Value Chain is tested and proven; it is business-based and can be measured.

IT4IT provides the structure and tools for organizations to manage their IT function as if it were a business in its own right, and achieve the same level of business discipline, predictability and efficiency as other functions in the business.

It enables IT management to work across the entire Value Chain in a better, faster, cheaper way with less risk and without involving a wholesale organizational change. You can map your current landscape onto IT4IT, and you can do it incrementally.