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IT Governance at Deutsche Bahn
Deutsche Bahn, the German rail company and a major European logistics and transport company, established its IT governance program resulting in significant drop in documentation effort, planning conflicts and cost sink holes.
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“planningIT has enabled us to mature in our ability to proactively manage IT"
- Project Goal: Reduce documentation effort, planning conflicts and cost sink holes
- IT Snapshot: ca. 700 applications of which over 50% require a detailed risk assessment
Project
Deutsche Bahn has strategic management processes in place to define and prioritize IT project portfolio for following year. To improve IT decision making abilities and ensure risk mitigation, Deutsche Bahn implemented planningIT to solve pressing issues such as:- How can more transparent and efficient decision making process be achieved?
- How can the integrity and consistency of data and visualizations of decision support material be ensured and easily generated when it’s needed?
- Regulatory boards and laws require a risk analysis be taken for applications provided by IT. What IT governance procedures and collaborative planning processes needed to be put in place to meet requirements?
Benefits
- Dramatically reduced effort to maintain and consolidate roadmaps of planned support
- Significantly faster decision making and less project conflicts due to collaborative planning
- Reduced overall service costs as a result of alignment of service quality levels across landscape
- Reliable, efficient, traceable risk assessment processes