Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross suggest ways to measure the effectiveness of IT Governance. They apply a simple framework that measures progress against four key objectives.
There are various techniques applied to manage project portfolios. This paper discusses using Earned Value Management and Treemaps. The latter provides a very powerful visual technique.
Most IT-enabled business projects are designed to underachieve in realizing the expected benefits often incorporated in the project’s deployment plan in the first place!