Perhaps I am a stickler for this with my Lean background, but to me every Business Opportunity or Business Driver should have a measurable and monitor-able positive business impact. Even extra time we take to create re-usable artifacts should be measured to insure that they eventually pay off (or at least most of them do - we need to be allowed to "fail fast", as well). So while it is easy to think of measure for cost reduction, revenue generation, even improved agility (lead-times and first-time through percentages), other Business Drivers can prove trickier. Is the motivation for modernization "agility", "cost reduction", both, or something else? Are we looking to measure GRC in terms of efficiency (ie, lower cost and higher speed)?
As I've been doing the Business Opportunity Assessment, I've been putting the metrics I'd use to measure the continual improvement of the governance of data important to this opportunity in the Description section. What do others think?
Cheers,
David Lyle