The Serviceware Digital Value Model enables CIOs and CFOs to make a data-driven assessment of the value created by IT services and investments. Communicate business cases rather than technology cases with stakeholders. Use standard terminology, best practices for planning, forecasting, allocation, cost transparency, simulation, scenarios, benchmarking, cloud cost management, vendor management, project portfolio management and Green IT / sustainability. The Serviceware Digital Value Model (DVM) combines a TBM*-optimized data model with a comprehensive set of best practices. DVM thus enables a holistic view of people, processes and data of all IT services.
* "Technology Business Management (TBM) is a discipline that improves business outcomes by giving organizations a consistent way to translate technology investments to business value.“ (www.tbmcouncil.org)
Creating IT Cost Transparency
Watch Dr. Christopher Boortz, Strategic Service Consulting, explaining the Digital Value Cost Model from Serviceware. It is a flexible data model, based on the TBM taxonomy, encompassing a comprehensive set of steering KPI, templates for standard, AI-enhanced IT Financial Management processes, as well as tailored and proven consulting best practices. Gain insights on how to accelerate digital transformation in your organization.
With a holistic view on value creation in the company, all costs of an IT organization can be captured, correlated and analyzed in-depth and down to the smallest detail with the Digital Value Cost Model. From data to dashboard, decision-relevant information is created in real time.
Define your Cost-to-Value-Flow: Use AI to map costs from your ERP world to Cost Pools, IT Towers and services. Establish cost flow relationships along your whole IT value chain, technical service to business service to customer/product/capability/value stream, to create E2E transparency.
Enable Benchmarking: Combine internal and external benchmark data to identify outliers and areas that merit further analyses to derive concrete cost saving and value improvement potential as well as initiatives to realize them.
From CIO to technical service owner, allow each role to steer their area of responsibility to get relevant reports and KPIs. Proactively manage IT costs and performance. Link decisions and the resulting costs. Apply an iterative, ROI-driven and agile approach to improving the quality and granularity of your data. Get structured top-down insights across 100% of technology spent by default. Refine and detail the model only where the steering benefits cover the costs for data improvement and maintenance.
Provide an overview of IT cost drivers as well as value drivers and the expected impact of changes to these drivers. Optimize cost-value ratio as you steer demands towards reduced service volume consumption and rightsizing/streamlining service scope as well as service levels (SLA). Enable supply-side cost optimization through benchmarkable service unit cost analysis, steer vendor costs, right-source labor and optimize software and hardware resource capacity. Increase productivity along the ITFM process due to automation and workflow support.
The steering logic that comes with the Digital Value model ensures that your strategy is successfully translated into operational management. Profit responsibility, targets, key performance indicators (KPIs) and measures can be assigned to responsible persons in IT, Finance, HR and other Shared Services.
Key Performance Indicators gauge your company's output against your set of targets and objectives. So, let's talk about:
What measurable impact does IT have on the positive business development and digital performance of your company?
Sample KPIs:
How can IT as a whole or in sub-areas be managed more efficiently and which precise performance and cost parameters can be improved?
Sample KPIs:
What does IT cost and what is the value of the services it provides? How can IT services be charged and compliance guaranteed?
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The ignition spark on your way from data to dashboard is the underlying calculation model, the Digital Value Model. It provides enough flexibility to incorporate enterprise-specific tags and attributes when allocating costs, while managing budget and demand are standardized in the processes layer, all with a focus on uncovering those value creating opportunities.
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