Ways for Preparing an Effective IT Scorecard
Summary: Effective methods or ways that would assist to create the best of IT scorecards for your organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------For judging performances many top IT organizations make use of various metrics defined by management gurus. But quite frequently the same old metrics is used that is not updated with changing times. Effective IT scorecards are said to be in sync with the business ideas and IT plans and need to be updated periodically so as to maintain its effectiveness and usefulness. Therefore, we suggest four ways or principles which can be adopted for developing best IT scorecards as defined by the experts: 1. Clear Strategy: Metrics that you wish to use must have a cause-effect relation in accordance to the goals set by the organization. It should also cover the strategy factor. 2. Progress Mapping: Once you are done with selection of metrics, you need to focus on mentioning short term goals and long term goals so that you have an idea whether the metric is going as per plan or not. This is a must. 3. Dedicated Metrics:
The scorecard should be able to track the various levels in architecture and a different metrics for the various levels and the audience at large in the organization. 4. Drill Down Data: The scorecard should be able to report a detailed metrics to its stakeholders. Not only this, it should also be capable of providing data in great detail whenever required. Adopting these four effective methods will definitely help to prepare an effective scorecard that will give you the exact result you want to know.