How to Structure Business Transformation Projects : The Case of Infineon’s Finance IT Roadmap

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Röglinger, Maximilian ; Bolsinger, Manuel ; Häckel, Björn ; Walter, Matthias:
How to Structure Business Transformation Projects : The Case of Infineon’s Finance IT Roadmap.
In: Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application. Vol. 17 (2016) Issue 5 . - pp. 5-21.
ISSN 1532-4516

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Although project management, benefits management, change management, and transformation management are everyday terms in many organizations, projects still experience high failure rates. Particularly business transformation projects are prone to fail because they affect multiple layers of the enterprise architecture, involve many stakeholders, last several years, and tie up considerable amounts of corporate capital. In order to handle their complexity, it is recommended to structure business transformation projects into portfolios of interdependent, yet smaller and thus manageable projects. So far, there is little guidance on how to achieve this. To share first-hand experience and stimulate research, we present and reflect on a project conducted with Infineon Technologies where we co-developed Infineon’s Finance IT roadmap. The Finance IT roadmap served as the foundation for transforming Infineon’s Finance IT setup to tackle future challenges of financial management in the semiconductor industry from a business, process, and IT perspective.