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From Project to Product Orientation

In: The Road to a Modern IT Factory

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  • Markus Löffler

    (McKinsey & Company)

  • Felix Reinshagen

    (McKinsey & Company)

Abstract

Reducing the costs of IT services has been the ambition of many companies over the last few years. Substantial savings have indeed been achieved by consolidating hardware assets, standardizing technologies, and streamlining processes. Nonetheless, even the most effective cost-reduction drive will hit a glass ceiling at some point: namely, the inherent complexity of infrastructure and applications. Moving from a project-oriented to a product-oriented approach can reduce that complexity and break through the glass ceiling. This approach will be reviewed by taking a closer look at IT infrastructure as discussed by Kaplan et al. (2004) and Chubak et al. (2011). Similar approaches can also be pursued for the application side of the equation.

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  • Markus Löffler & Felix Reinshagen, 2014. "From Project to Product Orientation," Management for Professionals, in: Ferri Abolhassan (ed.), The Road to a Modern IT Factory, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 43-48, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-642-40219-7_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40219-7_4
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