Contents Activity A 2 Activity B 2 Introduction 2 Background and justification for IT4IT adoption: 3 Reason behind choosing IT4IT 3 Benefits of IT4IT adoption 3 Implication of IT4IT for cloud computing 4 Roadmap of IT4IT 4 Challenges Delta Lloyd encountered during the adoption process 4 Outcomes of IT4IT™ adoption in Delta Lloyd 5 Conclusion 6 Reference 7   Activity A Date of activities Searched websites Time taken (minutes) 08.04.2017 https://blog.opengroup.org/2015/10/22/it4it-reference-architecture-version-2-0-an-open-group-standard/ 30 08.04.2017 http://pubs.opengroup.org/it4it/refarch20/m/chap05.html 30 08.04.2017 http://www.cloudcomputingintelligence.com/news/item/2523-open-groups-it4it-standard-for-cloud-devops-and-agile 45 08.04.2017 http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetid=20510 08.04.2017 http://m.hp.com/ch/de/hp-news/details.do?id=1815984&articletype=news_release 75 08.04.2017 http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/the-financial-case-for-moving-to-the-cloud/ 80 08.04.2017 https://books.google.co.in/books?id=etF2CwAAQBAJ&pg=PT52&lpg=PT52&dq=why+IT4IT++should+be+adopted&source=bl&ots=B9e2TpBT5I&sig=SsQWAMKkNAeNvl6n5Nu_aFNUIKc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwih6KOuzJTTAhXGtI8KHSawAdAQ6AEISDAI#v=onepage&q=why%20IT4IT%20%20should%20be%20adopted&f=false 270   Activity B Introduction This research paper is primarily concerned with the implementation of IT4ITtm in Delta Lloyd. in this assignment, researcher is trying to excavate, the reason behind adopting T4ITtm in workplace. Management of Delta Lloyd is facing trouble with their IT system; in order to mitigate IT related issues Delta Lloyd has adopted T4ITtm. With the help of this system, IT related problems could be curtailed within organization. Delta has announced that they adopt IT4IT open standards to handle its IT related issues (Simonsson & Ekstedt, 2006, July). Delta Lloyd is banking service provider organization and management has to provide efficient service in accomplishing customers’ demand. It is the sole responsibility of the management and employees of the organization to take care of the customer’s demand. In order to sustain the position of the organization in the global competitive market, it is necessary to adopt this technology. Delta Lloyd is a large financial institution with 6665 employers and total turnover of the organization is 620 million pound. Now the organization is trying to step into Medical Insurance sector. Background and justification for IT4IT adoption: This is considered as the unique approach as provides common information model to manage entire IT system. Precisely, it can be said that IT4IT is known as architectural model, which is developed for modeling IT management software (Johns, 2002). This is actually changing the game for IT in Delta Lloyd; being the large scale financial organization, Delta Lloyd has to keep data of millions of their customers. It is the responsibility of management to keep data secure and safe to avoid any hacking. Reason behind choosing IT4IT The open group IT4IT is reference architecture to guide the process of designing, procurement and implement IT system within workplace. There are certain reasons behind choosing IT4IT and those reasons are:  Delta Lloyd has millions of customers and keeping their data safe become the major trouble  Most of the profit margin of the organization has been wasted due to lack of proper IT management  IT managers of Delta are not efficient to manage IT related issues (Silic & Back, 2014)  Implementation of Cloud computing has become the major challenge for the organization as there is no specific IT implementation process  IT4IT is responsible for designing and implementing entire IT system  By implementing IT system, the organization can able to reap of entire profit margin  Data can be stored and updates automatically; previously, Delta is facing trouble with the IT implementation process as well as data automation process.  This support Delta in Business innovation process  Previously, customers have reported that their website is quite complex and not user friendly. Now, IT4IT helps in removing complexities and making websites (Pubs.opengroup.org, 2017) Benefits of IT4IT adoption  Implementing IT4IT is beneficial for the growth of the organization; it helps in recruiting and developing an efficient team  IT4IT adoption maintain the work flow of the organization (Lewis, 2017)  In the era of digital advancement, pace of change and complexity is overwhelming, digital disruption like formation of Cloud Computing is common aspect. IT4IT Reference Architecture is a vendor of IT management, which creates value chain activities of IT in an integrated manner. Implication of IT4IT for cloud computing  Cloud computing is adopted by the organization in order to mitigate operational cost of the information technology. If IT4IT is able to define, design and procure IT system properly then it will help of Cloud computing to reduce operational cost.  IT4IT is defined an operating model to provide Delta Lloyd support for real-world use-cases in which cloud computing is included (Cloudcomputingintelligence.com, 2017).  If it is seen from an engineering perspective then it can be understood that Cloud Computing is providing n opportunity to the users from all over the world access organizational data. Implementation of IT4IT is assisting cloud computing to keep data secure and safe.  Information can be accessed easily by users and suppliers   Roadmap of IT4IT IT4IT Reference Architecture standards has a value chain and three layers reference architectures From the analysis of the diagram, it has been understood that this Reference Architecture is providing holistic guidance while implementing IT management capabilities for a financial organization. It is structured as the peer to reference architectures like ARTS/NRF, ACORD, BIAN and TMF Framework. These four values system is playing vital role in controlling IT system. the road map of IT4UT Reference Architecture helps in providing prescriptive guidance on a specific service model backbone like common data model. It also supports real-world use-cases like Agile, DevOps and most importantly Cloud-sourcing (Pubs.opengroup.org, 2017). Challenges Delta Lloyd encountered during the adoption process The rate of appropriation normally begins low, quickens until around half of the group has received the innovation, then decelerates, in the long run moving toward zero, as about everybody in the group has embraced the innovation. IT4IT was intended to tackle the issues many endeavors have with the mistake inclined, moderate, manual exercises related with connecting capacities, for example, code administration, bundling, discharge administration, sending, and setup administration. It assists with these difficulties by endorsing a solitary structural system over the esteem chain. Problems with different technology adoption: • Deficiency of leadership/sustenance for revolution • Ease level – result of trouble • Time to mark variations and regulate • Thoughtful of and aptitude to device (Lewis, 2017) • Social inferences – changes in teamwork communication classes • Current procedures or actions • Budgetary urgencies • Difficulty/obtainability/time for exercise • Confrontation to knowledge new technology • Work pressure/overload • Charge • Proof of cost • Dependability – will it remain to afford value • User receipt • Presentation Outcomes of IT4IT™ adoption in Delta Lloyd The administration of Delta Lloyd trusts that it conveys an incentive from multiple points of view. IT divisions keep running on the IT4IT standards and structure will receive substantial benefits in cost funds and computerization that authorizes assets for IT advancement for the lines of business. Utilizing institutionalized information relics and connections will shape an establishment for Big Data investigation and business knowledge that were impractical over the IT esteem chain some time recently (Cloudcomputingintelligence.com, 2017). ITIL offers a sensible proclamation of prerequisites for better-grained IT administration forms. In any case, ITIL moves specifically from the largest amount idea of the Service Lifecycle to its 25 granular procedures. The IT4IT Standard will give an imperative center ground by characterizing the real esteem surges of Strategy to Portfolio, Requirement to Deploy, Request to Fulfill, and Detect to Correct. ITIL besides leaves numerous ambiguities in how to actualize and execute a conclusion to-end IT administration capacity, particularly as far as process joining. Ordinarily ITIL prepare proprietors do not know about their adjacencies nor their place in the esteem stream to bolster an IT Value Chain-based IT working model. The allurement is to enhance the different ITIL forms locally. Be that as it may, wherever the administration of Delta Lloyd are inside an IT association it is vital to comprehend their capacity in the more extensive esteem chain and their part in driving an incentive for the business by measuring administration results to the business – not restricting their work to doing ceaseless change on one IT prepare (Cloudcomputingintelligence.com, 2017). At last, in light of its solid data demonstrate, the IT4IT benefit spine will give them the premise to report out to the business on their administrations; for instance, on where the issues/issues are in their administration quality or conveyance. By sorting out their administrations and administration conveyance around the IT4IT benefit model and data display, the administration of Delta Lloyd get the incentive for their IT authority. The IT4IT Customary gives an establishment whereupon finest practice-based procedure copies like ITIL might run.  Gives a standard reference prototypes to a DevOps toolchain  Distinguishes the lines regularly found in the oversaw IT condition, encouraging more noteworthy perceivability into work-in-process  Gives a way to accommodating Kanban with customary process systems  Gives a mapping of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) ideas into customary venture and portfolio administration Conclusion From the overall analysis of the paper, it has been understood that like any other large financial institution, Delta Lloyd has IT portfolio process still those organizations are suffering from several issues like Poor quality of data, poor data consistency, inconsistence service, lack of proper IT portfolio management process and chances of hacking. Along with that poor tracking issues, lack of holistic portfolio and absence of correlation among logical, physical and conceptual domains. 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