Client Challenge

ICICI is concerned that it is spending an increasing amount of human and capital resources maintaining an ever-growing inventory of applications and supporting infrastructure. While self-discipline has helped maintain order, ICICI feels it can do much better to manage its Technology Portfolio (Applications, Tools and Infrastructure) across the Bank and Group Companies.

As is often the case within fast growing organisations, many cases of duplication of application development effort, as well as proliferation of tools in use, had come to ICICI management’s notice. Often, there are valid reasons cited that justify the need for specific development when something very similar already exists in the Group's application/tools portfolio. Common justifications include prioritization, not a 100% fit, span of control etc.

ICICI management had determined that the time is right to initiate steps to simplify the estate and address the increased costs that each duplication was introducing.

How We Helped

Enterprise Blueprints continues to assist the Application Portfolio Management Office in:

  • Developing an inventory of all of ICICI’s technology assets including cost to build and maintain, the business value produced and the expected life span
  • Using this information to provide reports on the performance of the technology assets in relation to the cost to own and value delivered
  • Identifying hotspots and opportunities to reduce the cost and complexity in project execution

Outcomes Achieved

It is in this context that ICICI embarked upon an initiative to set up an Application Portfolio Management Office. The primary mission of the office is to facilitate simplification of the overall IT landscape while at the same time increasing the business value delivered through existing assets. It will create better knowledge of all the Bank’s current assets and their capabilities while working with all the Bank and group companies to promote greater sharing of applications, tools and best practices. The objectives of APM are to:

  • Simplify IT landscape
  • Optimise Costs
  • Optimise Resources Utilization
  • Reuse - better sharing of Applications & tools
  • Reduce redundant efforts maintaining multiple application inventories
  • Reduce multiple redundant data collection efforts for Audit & Compliance

From our Client


Seema Achan,
Application & Technology Portfolio Management

Over the past one year, Enterprise Blueprints has been helping ICICI Bank with the adoption and implementation of the concept of Enterprise Architecture within our IT estate. They have been instrumental in helping us with not just setting up our EA roadmap but also in the ground level transformation process which is happening within the bank. I find it great that they are able to de-mystify many of the jargons around EA and instead have been able to come up with simple, logical and systematic framework and best practices to achieve the laid out outcomes. Once we build a firm EA using their expertise in the setting up the formalized EA practice within the bank.