Creating a Preliminary Business Case for an IT Investment
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
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Creating a Business Case for an IT Investment
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.
Strategic Assessment of Investment Proposal
The Strategic Assessment is intended to provide stakeholders with a high degree of confidence that the investment they are considering aligns with the organizations strategic priorities and responds to a true business need. Stakeholders can consider the rationale for a proposed investment at an early stage, and determine if the proposal warrants the development of a business case.
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.
Better Business Case Overview
This business case framework and approach is designed to improve the outcome of major investments using a structured approach that integrates disciplined decision making with program management and assurance. This approach provides an intuitive process to ensure key aspects of an investment proposal are considered and supported and a standard communication tool for engaging key stakeholders throughout the lifecycle and the various decisions at key points along it.
Creating an Implementation Business Case for an IT Investment
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.
Creating a Culture of Innovation
Innovation is the answer then culture is the imperative. This whitepaper discusses creating an innovation culture to support and sustain innovation.
Strategic Planning Process
This guide describes a 7 step strategic planning process that can be adapted to create your own IT strategy process.
Business IT Management
This white paper describes business IT management as a set of core capabilities to ensure a sustainable model of IT use for business value creation. So, the role of business it management is to plan and monitor IT capability life cycle to ensure that IT performance is in line with business needs, reduces risk and is cost efficient.
Effective IT Planning
This white paper introduces the concept if strategic planning for information technology, discusses a framework for IT planning, and related processes to make the IT planning initiative produce results.