Cardinal Health 🪽

1. ❗ The Challenge

Fragmented planning across siloed teams made it difficult to visualize strategy execution across business units, IT, and finance. Existing tools lacked clarity, scalability, and stakeholder buy-in. Cardinal Health needed a centralized, collaborative roadmap solution to support its multimillion dollars of annual investments.

2. 🎯 My Approach

I led a strategy-first engagement focused on visibility, alignment, and modernization.

Key steps:

• Secured executive buy-in and funding; partnered across IT, business, legal, finance, procurement, and architecture review boards to gain approvals

• Designed a unified data and roadmap structure to support capability mapping, prioritization, funding, and strategic sequencing

• Customized roadmap views, templates, and swimlane formats to visualize dependencies, timelines, and business/IT alignment

• Rolled out integrated roadmap templates with reusable color legends and cross-functional filters adopted by 50+ global teams

• Embedded executive workflows and strategic rollups across Corporate, Pharma, and Medical for a single view of enterprise priorities

• Integrated planning tools (ServiceNow, Jira, Microsoft), automating roadmap updates, notifications, and funding visualizations

3. 🛠️ Frameworks Used

These tools helped prioritize modernization, simplify intake, and drive stakeholder buy-in:

Tools:

• End-to-End Capability Funnel - Mapped initiatives from ideation to value realization

• Business-IT Alignment Map - Connected capability gaps with system needs and funding asks

• Strategic Roadmap Model - Visualized timelines, dependencies, sequencing, and funding status

• API Inventory & Redundancy Review - Identified duplicate tools and streamlined modernization efforts