The “IT Cost Optimization” category is an essential resource for CIOs, IT executives, and other technology leaders. It provides a wealth of articles and documents focused on strategies and techniques to streamline IT operations, reduce costs, and maximize the value of IT investments. This category, part of our CIO Reference Library, aims to help organizations effectively allocate resources, prioritize projects, and improve overall IT efficiency.
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By staying up-to-date with the latest trends and practices in IT cost optimization, CIOs and IT leaders can make informed decisions that help their organizations achieve greater operational efficiency and better financial performance. Visit this category regularly to discover new content and resources supporting your IT cost optimization journey.
This guide helps build an initial or indicative business case for an investment. This business case established the strategic context of the proposed investment, confirms
This guide helps create a business case for an IT investment. This business case establishes the strategic context and fit, confirms the case for change, identifies the investment option that maximizes business value, prepares a proposal for procurement, and seeks the necessary funding and management approvals for successful implementation.
This document discusses benefit assessment of an investment proposal. Benefits management is vital in ensuring that an initiative achieves what it set out to do. It involves articulating what benefits are expected from the initiative, how it will be known that the benefits are achieved, and the assessment of what has eventuated against what was planned. Managing benefits extends beyond the lifecycle of a project or program. It requires a structure that survives long after the project/program team has disbanded.
An implementation business case provides justification for a particular implementation approach/solution for an IT investment – the primary purpose is to recommend a solution that maximizes the return on investment.
This document provides an overview of a comprehensive investment lifecycle management framework to identify, select, fund, build, deploy and monitor investments – from investment proposals, to business cases to implemented solutions and key decisions in between.
This document discusses an approach to analyze and prioritize strategic options for an investment – a critical step in getting the biggest bang for the investment dollar is to identify solution options, and then pick the right option to implement. Strategic option analysis is critical to investment decisions.
This comprehensive guide provides policy, principles, process, framework, and examples for a complete and thorough management – identify, select, evaluate, fund, deploy, monitor – of major investments. You can adapt this guide to create your own Information Technology investment management process and framework.
This presentation discusses the key building blocks of a business case and the steps needed to assemble them into a meaningful instrument to communicate the value proposition of an initiative.
This guide describes the five case model for developing business cases and provides step-by-step guidance on writing a business case using this model.
This guide to writing good business cases first discusses what is a good business case and then describes the process for creating one with numerous references to resources for creating business cases.
