This IT Strategy Roadmap Guide gives CIOs and senior IT leaders a proven system to turn strategy into a roadmap that earns board confidence. It unifies strategy, portfolios, and risk into a single transformation framework, ensuring every initiative is aligned, governed, and measurable.
Its unique value lies in merging more than twenty established standards — including TOGAF, ArchiMate, IT4IT, BPMN, ISO 27000, GDPR, and the Balanced Scorecard — into one integrated process. Instead of juggling disconnected frameworks, leaders gain a consistent method supported by automated dashboards, KPIs, and heat maps that keep execution transparent and defensible.
Built for enterprise-scale environments, this guide provides both the framework and the tools to create credible roadmaps, embed compliance, and deliver results you can prove.
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This guide equips you with deliverables and decision tools that translate strategy into board-ready execution. Each element is designed to produce a roadmap that aligns portfolios, embeds compliance, and demonstrates value.
- Visible Enterprise Portfolios: Map processes, applications, technologies, and functions so you can decide where to invest and streamline resources.
- Integrated Risk and Compliance Views: Track incidents, sensitive data, and availability with heat maps and dashboards, producing compliance evidence your board will trust.
- Roadmap Templates and Architecture Epics: Convert strategy into prioritized projects and programs, giving you a clear, defensible execution path.
- Normalized KPI Indexes: Compare performance across initiatives with standardized metrics that prove progress and guide prioritization.
- Unified Standards Framework: Work from a single, merged model combining TOGAF, ArchiMate, IT4IT, BPMN, ISO 27000, GDPR, and more, so decisions are consistent and credible.
Together, these elements give you a roadmap that is clear, measurable, and trusted — the kind of deliverable that strengthens executive confidence and drives transformation forward.
