The Information portfolio management process ensures the overall coordination and uniformity of the
entire information provisioning throughout an organization. The structure of the information
provisioning is an important issue in this respect. This refers to the manner in which the information
provisioning is broken down and what the relationship is between its various components. In the case
of information portfolio management attention is also devoted to the totality of all the required and
planned changes and potential solutions for the entire information provisioning. At the uppermost
level all changes are brought into line with each other and optimum cohesion is achieved between the
business processes and the information provisioning in the future. Lastly, information portfolio
management defines what arrangements are made about the deployment of IT tools. This involves the
establishment of an infrastructure and development architecture.
The name has been changed from that used in the previous model and its detail reflects the devotion
of greater attention to the various types of architecture which play a role in this process.