This IT investment management framework tightly integrates business requirements with IT investments – from concept to outcome measurement. This ensures better business IT alignment to deliver higher return on IT investments – business strategy drive IT project and investment selection and funding. The rest of the process – selecting, funding, building, deploying, and governing IT investments then follows a business driven path to value creation.
This whitepaper discusses tool selection for running IT like a business. CIOs are under pressure to demonstrate the value of IT. Running IT Like a business can help create and communicate the value of IT. A critical element of this strategy is IT service definition and pricing. CIOs need to select appropriate tools for this function. This whitepaper can help.
This white paper outlines essential strategies for CIOs to implement effective financial management within IT, transforming IT operations into value-driven business units.
This guide introduces an information technology investment and decision making framework to align ICT investments with business objectives. This framework also helps in building a culture of discipline and structured analysis for information systems and technology.
This business case guide provides a template for managers to seek approval and support for IT investments. It provides the steps in the analysis required to ensure that IT investments are planned and documented – requirements are defined, performance metrics are identified, and program costs, benefits, and risks are well defined and understood prior to initiating an IT project.
This guide focuses on creating a business case for a generic project peripheral to an IT investment. The guide helps understand what a Business Case is, when and how one should be produced, what should be included, as well as some of the tools and techniques that may be used to develop a Business Case. (100 pages)
This guide helps develop a business case for IT investments. It provides a structure for the decision-making process, and for presenting this information in a way that makes decision-making easier, and help secure commitment and engagement across the organization and ultimately lead to a greater chance of success for the project.
This in-depth guide provides the process, templates, and guidance to create a business case for investments. The excellent discussion goes beyond financial considerations to include critical non-financial issues to consider when funding an investment. The emphasis is not on fulfilling an administrative mandate for approval of investments but to genuinely understand what it takes for an investment to succeed based upon fact and evidence. Excellent Read! (200 pages)
Explore this white paper to understand how implementing IT-as-a-Service can revolutionize financial transparency in IT operations, aligning costs with business objectives.
With today’s economic pressures, and a business philosophy of “doing more with less,” IT managers find themselves needing to communicate the value of IT and
