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IT Governance Knowledge Archive – Page 59

Benefit Assessment of Investment Proposal

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.

ITIL V3 Introduction

This presentation provides an introduction and overview of ITIL V3. It defines and describes ITIL, discusses its key concepts, lifecycle, roles, functions and processes. Good place to start your ITIL journey or quickly refresh your understanding.

Management of Portfolios

This best practice brief whitepaper discusses management of portfolios from a new product development perspective – agruing that how you spend your money is more important than how much you spend, it makes the case for portfolio management as the guide.

Project Portfolio Management Framework for Interdependent Projects

Traditionally, management of portfolio frameworks and methodologies have focused on independent projects undertaken in the same funding cycle. This paper discusses a project portfolio management (PPM) framework that includes a model and approach to optimizing a portfolio of interdependent projects.

Project Portfolio Management Maturity Framework

This paper describes a framework for project portfolio management maturity (PPM) or classification – companies/organizations can fall into one of the four categories and consequently have a different PPM strategy to improve their capability.

Key components of a business case

Example: Key Elements of a Business Case

This comprehensive business case example illustrates a proven framework for clearly defining organizational issues, analyzing strategic responses, estimating costs and benefits, and managing stakeholder engagement and risk—making it ideal for executives and CIOs to use as a reference or template when planning strategic investments.

ICT Project Solution Implementation Guide

This document provides guidance on building, delivering and implementing an it investment aka project or solution. A project or solution must be delivered in accordance with the promise of value or contract established at the business case stage so on-time and on-budget are really the beginning of successful project delivery.

ICT Investment Assessment Template

This template provides an easy to use yet in-depth and meaningful checklist of questions to assess an investment proposal – it can be used to guide the development of your own business case as well.

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