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IT Investment Business Case Hub – Page 5

Business Case Guide

This excellent and in depth guide provides insight into the process, technique and templates for business case preparation and evaluation. MUST Read!

Business Case Process Guide

This guide is focused on the process more than the content of an investment business case. It provides templates and examples to illustrate the business case preparation and approval process. You will have to sift through some situation specific information to leverage this document but it is worth it.

Guide to IT Investments Metrics and Methodologies

This guide offers a thorough methodology for CIOs to evaluate IT investments. It covers business case development, cost-benefit analysis, and strategic alignment of IT projects with organizational objectives. Key recommendations include implementing a tiered approach to project evaluation and enhancing decision-making with robust financial metrics.

Total Value of Opportunity Methodology

This paper introduces Gartner’s Total Value of Opportunity (TVO) methodology “a metrics-based, standard methodology for comprehensive investment analysis of any IT-enabled business initiative.”

A New Approach and Framework for IT Business Cases

The authors argue that organizations pay lip service to IT investment management – they insist on a business case for every IT investment but do not apply the rigor to what is contained in it. The resulting lack of IT investment results is both expected and can be fixed using a better business case framework developed by the authors.

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