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The credit crunch is making it harder to get funds for technology investments so here is my own IT business case evaluation tool to help you make sure that your business case really has strong enough legs to stand up, before you pitch.
As an interim director I have had to review hundreds of business cases, often under serious time pressure and financial constraints, which led me to create a simple business case evaluation tool that has helped me greatly over the years and I think that you will find it useful.
Here are the ten business case criteria that I use to evaluate an IT business case:
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Do businesses really regard their CIO as the Cheap Infrastructure Officer?
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Well that was the thrust of an extremely interesting observation made by Ilhan Aksoycan, who commented on one of my earlier articles about the future role of the CIO.
I am sure that many will dispute the attribution of cheap infrastructure
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Hard times call for hard thinking, supplemented by effective action. Achieving and sustaining our future relevance in the currently turbulent economic context will need a radical new approach to the way we deliver value to our enterprise stakeholders.
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A good first step would be to scrap the role of Chief Information Officer and create
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I am seriously interested in the dynamics of social networking so I have just issued a Twitter challenge: what is the future of the CIO? – in less than 140 characters with tag #ciofuture
The results, or non-results, will be interesting and I will report back
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