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โ€œIT ์ž์‚ฐ๋„ ํˆฌ์ž ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์ฒ˜๋Ÿผโ€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋†’์ด๋Š” IT ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์ „๋žต

18 January 2026 at 21:30

๊ธˆ์œต์—์„œ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํˆฌ์ž์ž์˜ ์žฌ๋ฌด ๋ชฉํ‘œ์™€ ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ๊ฐ๋‚ด ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋งž์ถ˜ ํˆฌ์ž ๋ฌถ์Œ์„ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์„ ๋œปํ•œ๋‹ค.

์ด๋Ÿฐ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์€ IT๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์—๋„ ์ ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋ผ์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. IT๋Š” ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์— ํฌํ•จ๋œ ๊ฐ ์ž์‚ฐ์˜ ์šด์˜ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ๊ธฐ์—… IT๋Š” ๋ ˆ๊ฑฐ์‹œ, ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜, AI ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹ ํฅ ๋˜๋Š” ์ตœ์ฒจ๋‹จ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ๋’ค์„ž์—ฌ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ ๋ฒ”์ฃผ์—๋Š” ๋ฏธ์…˜ ํฌ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ปฌ ์ž์‚ฐ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋ผ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ชจ๋“  ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ๊ธฐ์—…์— ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๊ฐ€์น˜, ์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ฐ€์น˜, ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ํšŒํ”ผ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๋Šฅ์ด ๋™์ผํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด, CIO๋Š” IT ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ?

IT ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ทน๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ 5๊ฐ€์ง€ ํ‰๊ฐ€ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณธ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ์…˜ ํฌ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ปฌ ์ž์‚ฐ

๊ธฐ์—…์ด ์ผ์ƒ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์€ ๋ณ„๋„ ๋ฒ”์ฃผ๋กœ ๋ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ค‘์š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์€ ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ , ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์Šคํƒ ๊นŠ์ˆ™ํ•œ ๊ณณ์— ์ˆจ์–ด ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ž์‚ฐ์€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ โ€˜๋ฏธ์…˜ ํฌ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ปฌํ•œ๊ฐ€โ€™๋ฅผ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ERP ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์€ 24์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์šด์˜๋˜๋Š” ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง๊ณผ ์—ฐ๋™๋ผ ๊ธฐ์—… ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ขŒ์šฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— 24์‹œ๊ฐ„ 365์ผ โ€˜๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ํ•„์š”ํ•œโ€™ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋กœ HR ์• ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ด์…˜์ด๋‚˜ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋ถ„์„ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์€ ์ง์›์ด ์šฐํšŒ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋กœ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๋ฉด ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์ •๋„ ์ค‘๋‹จ๋ผ๋„ ํฐ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์—†์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๋” ์„ธ๋ฐ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ๋Š” IT ์„œ๋ฒ„, ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ, ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ์ง€์—๋„ ๊ฐ™์€ ์œ ํ˜•์˜ ๋ถ„์„์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค. IT๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ํ™•๋ณดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฆฌ์†Œ์Šค๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ž ๊น์€ ์—†์–ด๋„ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฆฌ์†Œ์Šค๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€? IT๊ฐ€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ฏธ์…˜ ํฌ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ปฌ ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ์‹๋ณ„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์ตœ์ข… ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ชฉ๋ก์„ ์žฌ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด ์ƒํ˜ธ ํ•ฉ์˜๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์ž์‚ฐ ํ™œ์šฉ๋ฅ 

SaaS ์ธ๋ฒคํ† ๋ฆฌ, ๋ผ์ด์„ ์Šค, ๊ฐฑ์‹ ์„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” SaaS ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ์ „๋ฌธ์—…์ฒด ์ž์ผ๋กœ(Zylo)๋Š” โ€œSaaS ๋ผ์ด์„ ์Šค์˜ 53%๊ฐ€ ํ‰๊ท ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ์‚ฌ์šฉ ๋˜๋Š” ์ €ํ™œ์šฉ ์ƒํƒœโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์ถ”์ •ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ํœด๋ฉด ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ์ผ์ด ์šฐ์„  ๊ณผ์ œ์—ฌ์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅธ๋ฐ” โ€˜์…ธํ”„์›จ์–ด(Shelfware)โ€™ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” SaaS์—๋งŒ ๊ตญํ•œ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ ˆ๊ฑฐ์‹œ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ตฌํ˜• ์„œ๋ฒ„์™€ ๋””์Šคํฌ ๋“œ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ, ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ๊ณ„์† ์ง€๋ถˆํ•˜๋Š” ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์—์„œ๋„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์…ธํ”„์›จ์–ด๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋Š”๋ฐ, IT๊ฐ€ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์— ์ซ“๊ฒจ ์ธ๋ฒคํ† ๋ฆฌ ์ ๊ฒ€๊ณผ ๋…ธํ›„ํ™” ์ ๊ฒ€์„ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ์ž์‚ฐ์€ ์„ ๋ฐ˜์— ์˜ฌ๋ ค์ง„ ์ฑ„ ์ž๋™ ๊ฐฑ์‹ ๋œ๋‹ค.

IT ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ์„ฑ๊ณผ์™€ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์„ ๊ทน๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ์…ธํ”„์›จ์–ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. IT๊ฐ€ ์…ธํ”„์›จ์–ด ํ‰๊ฐ€์— ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋‚ด๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ปจ์„คํ„ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ํˆฌ์ž…ํ•ด ์ž์‚ฐ ์‚ฌ์šฉ ํ˜„ํ™ฉ์„ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ „ํ˜€ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ์น˜ ๋˜๋Š” ์ œ๊ฑฐ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ‘œ์‹œํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์ž์‚ฐ ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ

IT ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ๋„ ์œ ํšจํ•˜๊ณ  ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ์œ ํšจํ•  ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ๋‹ด๋Š” ์ผ์ด๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ž์‚ฐ ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ IT ๋ฆฌ์†Œ์Šค๋ณ„๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์†”๋ฃจ์…˜ ์—…์ฒด์˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์ข…๋ฃŒ๋‚˜ ๋…ธํ›„ํ™” ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜ ์—…์ฒด ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •ํ•œ๊ฐ€? IT ๋ถ€์„œ๋Š” ํŠน์ • ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๊ณ„์† ์šด์˜ํ•  ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ์ธ๋ ฅ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด COBOL๊ณผ ์–ด์…ˆ๋ธ”๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•œ ์ปค์Šคํ…€ ๋ ˆ๊ฑฐ์‹œ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์€ ์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ์ด ์ข‹์•„๋„ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ์ธ๋ ฅ ์ง€์† ์—ฌ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ณ€์ˆ˜์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน์ • ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด๋‚˜ ํ•˜๋“œ์›จ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์šด์˜ ๋น„์šฉ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ๋น„์‹ธ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ๊ธฐ์กด IT ๋ฆฌ์†Œ์Šค๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ IT๋ฅผ ์ฑ„์šธ ์ƒˆ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ ํ†ตํ•ฉ๋  ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ๋กœ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€?

๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธ๋œ IT ์ž์‚ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” โ€˜๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌโ€™ ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์†Œํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ๊ต์ฒดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์ž์‚ฐ IP ๊ฐ€์น˜

ํ™˜๋Œ€ ์‚ฐ์—…์—์„œ ์ผํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œ CIO๋Š” ํ˜ธํ…” ์˜ˆ์•ฝ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๊ณผ ํ•ด๋‹น ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ด ๊ตฌ๋™๋˜๋Š” ๋ฉ”์ธํ”„๋ ˆ์ž„์ด 30๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋„ ๋ฉˆ์ถ˜ ์ ์ด ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ž๋ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด CIO๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์ปค์Šคํ…€ ์ฝ”๋“œ์™€ ์ „์šฉ ์šด์˜์ฒด์ œ๋ฅผ ์„ฑ๊ณต ์š”์ธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ผฝ์•˜๊ณ , ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„๋„ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ „๋žต์  ์šฐ์œ„๋กœ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” CIO๋Š” ์ ์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค. ์ž์‚ฌ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋” ๋‚ซ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” โ€˜์ž์ฒด ํŠน์ œ ์†Œ์Šคโ€™๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ๋งŽ๋‹ค. IT ํŠน์ œ ์†Œ์Šค๋Š” ๋ ˆ๊ฑฐ์‹œ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ  AI ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์ผ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ IT ์ง€์‹์žฌ์‚ฐ(IP)์œผ๋กœ ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก์€ ์ž์‚ฐ์€ IT ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์—์„œ ๋ณด์กดํ•  ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋‹ค.

์ž์‚ฐ TCO์™€ ROI

๋ชจ๋“  IT ์ž์‚ฐ์ด ์ œ ๋ชซ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ํ˜„๊ธˆ์ด๋‚˜ ์ฃผ์‹ ํˆฌ์ž์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋Œ€์ƒ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์€ ์ธก์ • ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค˜์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. IT๊ฐ€ ์ž์‚ฐ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ํŒ๋‹จํ•  ๋•Œ ์ฃผ๋กœ ์“ฐ๋Š” ์ง€ํ‘œ๋Š” TCO์™€ ROI์ด๋‹ค.

TCO๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ž์‚ฐ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๊ฐ€๋Š ํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€ํ‘œ์ด๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์„œ๋ฒ„ ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” 4๋…„ ์ „์— ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ƒˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด์ œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ์—๋Š” ๊ตฌํ˜• ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ๋…ธํ›„ ์„œ๋ฒ„ ๊ตฌ์—ญ์ด ์ƒ๊ฒผ๊ณ  ์ปดํ“จํŒ…์„ ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํŽธ์ด ๋” ์ €๋ ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

ROI๋Š” ์ƒˆ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋„์ž…ํ•  ๋•Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ง€ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์„ค์ •ํ•ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์— ํˆฌ์ž…ํ•œ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ํˆฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ์–ธ์ œ ํšŒ์ˆ˜๋˜๋Š”์ง€ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์‹œ์ ์„ ์ •ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์†์ต๋ถ„๊ธฐ์ ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•œ ๋’ค์—๋„ ROI๋Š” ๊ณ„์† ์ธก์ •๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์—…์€ ํˆฌ์ž์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์ด๋‚˜ ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ์ด ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋ ค ํ•œ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํˆฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„ํš๋Œ€๋กœ ํ˜๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋„์ž…์„ ์ •๋‹นํ™”ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ผ€์ด์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋€Œ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์˜ˆ๊ธฐ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ๋ณต์žก์„ฑ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•ด ํˆฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ์†์‹ค์„ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ์—…์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋ฝํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

TCO๋“  ROI๋“  ์–ด๋–ค ์ง€ํ‘œ์—์„œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋ฉด, IT ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋Š” ์†์‹ค ์ž์‚ฐ์ด๋‚˜ ๋‚ญ๋น„ ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์ง€๋ผ์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

IT ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋Œ€์›์น™ โ€œ์ƒ์‹œ ๊ด€๋ฆฌโ€

IT ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋Š” CIO๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์‹œ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์—…๋ฌด์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์š”์ฒญ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๋•Œ๋งŒ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ๊ต์ฒดํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์„œ๋ฒ„๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ์žฅ ๋‚˜ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ์—์„œ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๋•Œ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด๋‹ค.

CIO๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ ํŽธ์„ฑ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ์ƒ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” CEO, CFO ๊ฐ™์€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋„ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค. CEO์™€ CFO๋Š” ์ƒˆ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋„์ž…์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ โ€˜๋ณธ์ „์„ ์ฐพ๋Š”์ง€โ€™์—๋Š” ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๋ณด์ด์ง€๋งŒ, IT ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ์ „์ฒด ์ž์‚ฐ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ค์ง€, ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋†’์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ค ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ๊ต์ฒดํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๊ฐ™์€ ํฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ CIO์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌป๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค.

IT ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋†’์ด๋ ค๋ฉด CIO๋Š” ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ทน ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. CIO๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ IT ์ž์‚ฐ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝํ•˜๊ณ , IT ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์— ์ง์ ‘ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์กฐ์ง ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์›๊ณผ ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ์ ๊ฒ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์— ์ฐฉ์ˆ˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

IT ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋Š” CFO์™€ CEO์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ๊ณต๊ฐ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šด๋ฐ, CFO์™€ CEO๋Š” ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ์žฌ๋ฌด ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์™€ ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋ฅผ ์ƒ์‹œ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. IT ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์˜ ๊ฐ€์‹œ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์•„์ง€๋ฉด CIO๊ฐ€ ์ƒˆ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ์ถ”์ฒœํ•˜๊ณ , ํ•„์š” ์‹œ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ž์‚ฐ ๊ต์ฒด๋‚˜ ์—…๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ ์Šน์ธ์„ ๋ฐ›์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ์ผ๋„ ๋” ์ˆ˜์›”ํ•ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
dl-ciokorea@foundryco.com

IT portfolio management: Optimizing IT assets for business value

16 January 2026 at 05:01

In finance, portfolio management involves the strategic selection of a collection of investments that align with an investorโ€™s financial goals and risk tolerance.ย 

This approach can also apply to ITโ€™s portfolio of systems, with one addition: IT must also assess each asset in that portfolio for operational performance.

Todayโ€™s IT is a mix of legacy, cloud-based, and emerging or leading-edge systems, such as AI. Each category contains mission-critical assets, but not every system performs equally well when it comes to delivering business, financial, and risk avoidance value to the enterprise. How can CIOs optimize their IT portfolio performance?

Here are five evaluative criteria for maximizing the value of your IT portfolio.

Mission-critical assets

The enterpriseโ€™s most critical systems for conducting day-to-day business are a category unto themselves. These systems may be readily apparent, or hidden deep in a technical stack. So all assets should be evaluated as to how mission-critical they are.

For example, it might be that your ERP solution is a 24/7 โ€œmust haveโ€ system because it interfaces with a global supply chain that operates around the clock and drives most company business. On the other hand, an HR application or a marketing analytics system could probably be down for a day with work-arounds by staff.

More granularly, the same type of analysis needs to be performed on IT servers, networks and storage. Which resources do you absolutely have to have, and which can you do without, if only temporarily?

As IT identifies these mission-critical assets, it should also review the list with end-users and management to assure mutual agreement.

Asset utilization

Zylo, which manages SaaS inventory, licenses, and renewals, estimates that โ€œ53% of SaaS licenses go unused or underused on average, so finding dormant software should be a priority.โ€ This โ€œshelfwareโ€ problem isnโ€™t only with SaaS; it can be found in underutilized legacy and modern systems, in obsolete servers and disk drives, and in network technologies that arenโ€™t being used but are still being paid for.

Shelfware in all forms exists because IT is too busy with projects to stop for inventory and obsolescence checks. Consequently, old stuff gets set on the shelf and auto-renews.

The shelfware issue should be solved if IT portfolios are to be maximized for performance and profitability. If IT canโ€™t spare the time for a shelfware evaluation, it can bring in a consultant to perform an assessment of asset use and to flag never-used or seldom-used assets for repurposing or elimination.

Asset risk

The goal of an IT portfolio is to contain assets that are presently relevant and will continue to be relevant well into the future. Consequently, asset risk should be evaluated for each IT resource.

Is the resource at risk for vendor sunsetting or obsolescence? Is the vendor itself unstable? Does IT have the on-staff resources to continue running a given system, no matter how good it is (a custom legacy system written in COBOL and Assembler, for example)? Is a particular system or piece of hardware becoming too expense to run? Do existing IT resources have a clear path to integration with the new technologies that will populate IT in the future?

For IT assets that are found to be at risk, strategies should be enacted to either get them out of โ€œriskโ€ mode, or to replace them.

Asset IP value

There is a CIO I know in the hospitality industry who boasts that his hotel reservation program, and the mainframe it runs on, have not gone down in 30 years. He attributes much of this success to custom code and a specialized operating system that the company uses, and he and his management view it as a strategic advantage over the competition.

He is not the only CIO who feels this way. There are many companies that operate with their โ€œown IT special sauceโ€ that makes their businesses better. This special sauce could be a legacy system or an AI algorithm. Assets like these that become IT intellectual property (IP) present a case for preservation in the IT portfolio.

Asset TCO and ROI

Is every IT asset pulling its weight? Like monetary and stock investments, technologies under management must show they are continuing to produce measurable and sustainable value. The primary indicators of asset value that IT uses are total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI).

TCO is what gauges the value of an asset over time. For instance, investments in new servers for the data center might have paid off four years ago, but now the data center has an aging bay of servers with obsolete technology and it is cheaper to relocate compute to the cloud.

ROI is used when new technology is acquired. Metrics are set that define at what point the initial investment into the technology will be recouped. Once the breakeven point has been reached, ROI continues to be measured because the company wants to see new profitability and/or savings materialize from the investment. Unfortunately, not all technology investments go as planned. Sometimes the initial business case that called for the technology changes or unforeseen complications arise that turn the investment into a loss leader.

In both cases, whether the issue is TCO or ROI, the IT portfolio must be maintained in a way such that losing or wasted assets are removed.

Summing it up

IT portfolio management is an important part of what CIOs should be doing on an ongoing basis, but all too often, it is approached in a reactionary mode โ€” for example, with a system being replaced only when users ask for it to be replaced, or a server needing to be removed from the data center because it fails.

The CEO, the CFO, and other key stakeholders whom the CIO deals with during technology budgeting time donโ€™t help, either. While they will be interested in how long it will take for a new technology acquisition to โ€œpay for itself,โ€ no one ever asks the CIO about the big picture of IT portfolio management: how the overall assets in the IT portfolio are performing, and which assets will require replacement for the portfolio to sustain or improve company value.

To improve their own IT management, CIOs should seize the portfolio management opportunity. They can do this by establishing a portfolio for their companyโ€™s IT assets and reviewing these assets periodically with those in the enterprise who have direct say over IT budgets.

IT portfolio management will resonate with the CFO and CEO because both continually work with financial and risk portfolios for the business. Broader visibility of the IT portfolio will also make it easier for CIOs to present new technology recommendations and to obtain approvals for replacing or upgrading existing assets when these actions are called for.

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