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Management of Large-Scale Transformation Programs: State of the Practice and Future Potential

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Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research and Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET 2012, TEAR 2012)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 131))

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In addition to continuous, evolutionary optimizations, most enterprises also undergo revolutionary transformations from time to time. Knowledge about current corporate practice for coherent IT and business transformation is therefore very valuable. In this paper we present the results of an empirical study on the management of large-scale transformation programs that focuses on IT as much as business aspects. Companies that rate themselves as mature with regards to transformation management, assess certain transformation management components different than less mature companies. Cost reduction, revenue improvement, and agility improvement are the most relevant goals of transformation programs – all these are business goals and not IT goals. Current state of the practice transformation management can be classified into three approaches: Value-driven, ungoverned and change-driven. We found that no single management approach covers all these areas appropriately yet.

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  1. Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Gerrit Lahrmann, Nils Labusch & Robert Winter

  2. SAP AG, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, Basel, Switzerland

    Axel Uhl

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  1. Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen, Müller-Friedberg-Strasse 8, 9000, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Stephan Aier

  2. Industrial Information and Control Systems, Royal Institute of Technology, Osquldas väg 10, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Mathias Ekstedt

  3. Chair for Informatics 19 (sebis), Technische Universität München (TUM), Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748, Garching bei München, Germany

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  5. IBM Research, San Jose, California, USA

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Lahrmann, G., Labusch, N., Winter, R., Uhl, A. (2012). Management of Large-Scale Transformation Programs: State of the Practice and Future Potential. In: Aier, S., Ekstedt, M., Matthes, F., Proper, E., Sanz, J.L. (eds) Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research and Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation. PRET TEAR 2012 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34163-2_15

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