Annex A – Application Strategy Map

The Application Strategy Map is a diagram depicting three major sections of this document that are key to the strategy. They are:

• Strategic Drivers,
• Strategic Objectives and
• Core Activities.

The Strategic Drivers box on the left side of the diagram includes four drivers:

• GC IT Strategic Plan
• Defence Plan
• Defence Renewal, and
• Technological Environment (Gartner Report)

The middle box identifies six Core Activities. These are:

• Refine Application Governance
• Mature the Use of Enterprise Architecture
• Increase Application Development Agility
• Enable Application Integration
• Mature APM Data and Processes, and
• Pursue Partnerships with External Service Providers.

The box on the right includes these five Strategic Objectives:

• Increase Adoption of Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Applications,
• Reduce Duplication of Functionality,
• Reduce Integration Complexity,
• Improve Application Portfolio Management (APM) Data Quality, and
• Leverage External Expertise and Services.

Finally, the diagram shows a number of relationships from the Core Activities to the Strategic Objectives. These include:

• The group of these three Core Activities:
  • Refine Application Governance,
  • Mature the Use of Enterprise Architecture, and
  • Increase Application Development Agility.
• to a group of two Strategic Objectives that include:
  • Increase Adoption of COTS Applications, and
  • Reduce Duplication of Functionality
• There is a relation from the Enable Application Integration Core Activity to the Reduce Integration Complexity Strategic Objective.
• There is a relation from the Mature APM Data and Processes Core Activity to the Improve APM Data Quality Strategic Objective, and finally,
• There is a relation from the Pursue Partnerships with External Service Providers Core Activity to the Leverage External Expertise and Services Strategic Objective.

Details on all these items can be found through this document.