Best Practices for Application Consolidation   Digitalization has imparted several benefits and new avenues for the growth of organizations. But just adopting technology is not enough. You must also scrutinize the changes that digitalization brings. Along with new digital technologies come new business processes. Due to the complex nature of existing applications in large organizations, enterprises find it difficult to adopt these new processes. Hence, enterprises must often initiate application consolidation exercises.

A robust application consolidation strategy must be built to accomplish the goal of a smooth transition from old to new digital technology. With application consolidation, you can streamline your resources,…

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Using the Tragedy of Commons theory for application portfolio guidance Many times, business and application leaders bring their rationalization efforts as far as a plan, but stumble getting the business engaged to execute the plan. They question the reasons for spending money on an IT problem and do not understand how they contribute to the problem, so nothing happens.  

Many design principles laid out by Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrum can provide a useful analog for business and application leaders in addressing the application portfolio problem. Some of them are…

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Does the Tragedy of the Commons apply to application portfolios? Many business and application leaders are known to address a bloated application portfolio. They should look at the decades of research in a widely known economic problem, The Tragedy of the commons, for guidance. We discuss here today what The Tragedy of the commons mean.

Application leaders have struggled to achieve meaningful outcomes from application rationalization efforts as they do not have the authority to standardize business processes. The state they are in has parallels…

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