Modernizing The IT Portfolio: A Primer
CIO, Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
When making decisions about the IT portfolio, CIOs must balance the need to add new-and-cool stuff with the need to avoid obsolescing components that are no less important for having stopped being new and cool years ago.
Making the case for modernizing the IT portfolio is a lot like making the case for changing the oil in your car. The case in favor: If you don't do it, eventually the engine will burn out.
But the ROI for doing it right now? It's an actuarial problem. Delay modernization today and there's a statistical certainty that bad karma will follow. But when that risk will become reality is uncertain, too.