"IT Investment - Making a Business Case is about how to demonstrate the value of spending large sums of money on IT. The book looks at the business reasons for IT investment and explains how to demonstrate that the large sums of money required for IT investment are used to improve business processes and practices. The book shows how to use this approach to prioritise projects."--Jacket.
Note
"Shows how to present an IT project's expenses in terms of an investment in business practices and processes." "How to prove the value of an IT investment, how to get an IT project going on the right track, five essential corner stones of an IT business case, business outcomes, strategy, stakeholders, technology, risk, how to do business case accounting, How to judge one business case against another"--Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Front Cover; IT investment making a business case; Copyright Page; Contents; About the author; How to use this book; Preface; Chapter 1. Why a business case for IT investment; Chapter 2. Preparing an IT business case; Chapter 3. The art of evaluation; Chapter 4. The business outcome; Chapter 5. The stakeholders; Chapter 6. Strategic alignment and IT benefit indentification; Chapter 7. Technology Issues; Chapter 8. Risk project and systems; Chapter 9. Business case accounting; Chapter 10. Evaluating a business case; Chapter 11. Using the business case for IT project management.
"IT Investment - Making a Business Case is about how to demonstrate the value of spending large sums of money on IT. The book looks at the business reasons for IT investment and explains how to demonstrate that the large sums of money required for IT investment are used to improve business processes and practices. The book shows how to use this approach to prioritise projects."--Jacket.