This study puts in context “running IT like a business” making the vital connections that must be made with issues of business IT alignment, IT value, IT Organization design, and IT finance.
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 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.
This is a simple primer to prepare a business case to justify IT investments. It covers a typical business case template and discusses all its sections.
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.
This case study discusses a framework for allocating budget dollars among various divisions and departments of an organization. This framework can be adapted for use with IT dollars. Good discussion!
This vendor driven whitepaper provides two case studies that illustrate the need for transparency in IT costs. You will have to step over the self promotion to get to the meat but it is worth it.
This white paper examines today’s public sector budgeting landscape, features and benefits of different solutions, and key selection criteria and considerations.