Business leaders and IT departments can hold very different views on the priority and outcomes of application modernization, and these opposing views often hinder or block modernization efforts.
While everyone wants modern applications that support organizational objectives, executive leadership and IT leaders often view the investment with different costs and benefits in mind. Consequently, only 50% of modernization projects are currently getting approved, according to research presented at the Gartner Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit this year.
In this article we outline the reasons for this low approval rate, and what IT departments can do to obtain buy-in and alignment with executive leadership that would lead to project progress.
What’s blocking buy-in?
A recent independent study by EvolveWare on the State of Application Modernization found that 40% of IT team respondents said that boosting productivity is a top priority for modernization, alongside retiring mainframe infrastructure (37%), and reducing the dependency on legacy code (36%).
However, the report found a disconnect when comparing these priorities …