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The CMF

Our Capability Framework gives your organisation the tools for success.

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Business organisations, both public and private, are constantly challenged to innovate and generate real value. CIOs are uniquely well-positioned to seize this opportunity and adopt the role of business transformation partner, helping their organisations to grow and prosper with innovative, IT-enabled products, services and processes. The rise of generative AI and other constantly changing digital tools increases opportunities – and challenges. To succeed, the IT function needs to manage an array of interrelated and interdependent disciplines focused on the generation of business value. 

In response to this need, IVI developed the IT Capability Maturity Framework™ (IT-CMF™) and other frameworks. 

Our frameworks are comprehensive suites of tried and tested practices, organisational assessment approaches, and improvement roadmaps covering key digital capabilities needed to optimise value and innovation in the technology function and the wider organisation. The frameworks enable organisations to devise more robust strategies, make better informed decisions, and perform more effectively, efficiently and consistently. 

 

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Our Frameworks are: 

  • Integrated management toolkits covering key capability management disciplines, with organisational maturity profiles, assessment methods, and improvement roadmaps for each.
  • A coherent set of concepts and principles, expressed in business language, that can be used to guide discussions on setting goals and evaluating performance.
  • Unifying frameworks that complement other, domain-specific frameworks already in use in the organisation, helping to resolve conflicts between them, and filling gaps in their coverage.
  • Industry/sector and vendor independent. Our frameworks can be used in any organisational context to guide performance improvement.
  • Guide by a rigorously developed approach, underpinned by the principles of Open Innovation and guided by the Design Science Research methodology, synthesising leading academic research with industry practitioner expertise.
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Testimonials

“IT-CMF™ provides us with a structured and systematic approach to identify the capabilities we need, a way to assess our strengths and weaknesses, and clear pathways to improve our performance.”

 – Suresh Kumar, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, BNY Mellon 

‘To successfully respond to competitive forces, organisations need to continually review and evolve their existing IT practices, processes, and cultural norms across the entire organization. IT-CMF™ provides a structured framework for them to do that.”

 – Christian Morales, Corporate Vice President and General Manager EMEA, Intel Corporation 

 “We have successfully applied IT-CMF™ in over 200 assignments for clients. It just works. Or, as our clients confirm, it helps them create more value from IT.” 

 – Ralf Dreischmeier, Senior Partner and Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group 

“I believe IT-CMF™ to be comprehensive and credible. Using the framework helps organisations to objectively identify and confirm priorities as the basis for driving improvements.”

 – Dr Colin Ashurst, Senior Lecturer and Director of Innovation, Newcastle University Business School 

Our online portal details the latest iteration of the IT-CMF™ across four Macro Capabilities, broken into 36 Critical Capabilities.

Explore the IT-CMF™ in detail

To find out more about our frameworks, training, assessment and benchmarking solutions, please get in touch. 

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