DeepRoots  Strategic Foundation

As important as it is to understand what DeepRoots™ is, it's just as important to understand what it is not.

DeepRoots™ is an execution methodology that is focused on building organizational capabilities and embedding them deep within the culture of an organization. But that begs the question, "How do I know that I'm building the right capabilities?"

Strategic Foundations

DeepRoots™ was not built to answer that question. Instead, the application of the methodology assumes that it is executed under the guidance of a comprehensive IT strategy that defines the capabilities that are required. This strategy should also be developed from two key perspectives:

• Business Driven: It should be customer and business driven and therefore provide linkage between business priorities and the underlying IT initiatives that make up the IT strategy (we recommend using a methodology such as IT Service Value Management to assess and prioritize from a business perspective.)
• Maturity Aligned: It should be envisioned within the context of an IT Maturity Framework (we recommend the IT-CMF: IT Capability Maturity Framework) which will focus the organization on the development of capabilities appropriate to the current state of maturity

From these strategic foundations, the DeepRoots™ methodology is a powerful tool to develop the needed capabilities and embed them deep within the culture of the organization.