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 business case development guide describes a best practice based approach to developing investment proposals specific to information technology investments – establish a clear need, define benefits, and explore strategic options. This guide includes things sometimes omitted by others specifically, technology selection, organization readiness, and procurement.
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 guide describes the key questions that must be answered to evaluate the benefits realized from the program – business operations work as planned? benefits being realized as promised?
This guide describes the key questions that must be answered to evaluate the entire program – does the business case make sense to continue investment? is it realistic? are key stakeholders on board? is there an implementation plan? how meaningful and realistic is it?
This guide presents a step by step process to embed stage gates into your program delivery. It describes the purpose of each stage gate review and the key questions that must be asked and answered before the program is allowed to proceed.
This guide describes the key questions that must be answered to evaluate the business case for the program – does it make sense? is it realistic? are key stakeholders on board?
This guide describes the key questions that must be answered to evaluate the implementation strategy for the program – does it make sense? is it realistic? are key stakeholders on board? is there a plan? how meaningful and realistic is it?
This guide describes the key questions that must be answered to evaluate the organizational readiness for program implementation – will business operations work as planned? will benefits be realized as promised?
