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Achieving Business Objectives through Strategic IT Investment: Gone are the days when IT spending was simply another line in the budget, like telephones, maintenance, or transportation. Today, IT spending is increasingly recognized as an investment that will enable the business to continue growing well into the future. But like all good investments, reliable information is essential....; Tags: ZDNet, IT-spending, investment, IT investment, decision-making, transportation, IT infrastructure, information technology, customer service, Webcast, performance, phone; Webcasts 2008-03-31
A Process Model Of Business Value Creation From IT Investments: The history of Information Systems (IS) as a discipline has been accompanied by vigorous debate on how, and indeed whether, IT investments contribute to improving organisational performance and hence in delivering value to the organisation. A number of models have been put forward to describe the relationship between IT expenditure...; Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, Model, Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-02-14
Who's Accountable for IT Investments? Senior Executives Need to Take Charge: Successful companies use the portfolio method to manage their enterprise IT projects and services. Although the complex problems facing IT management today have been some 40 years in the making, they can be fixed by any organization willing to look hard at its existing portfolio practices, understand what is not...; Tags: Strategy, PRTM, information technology, IT investment, IT administration, accountability; White papers 2005-09-01
Good Enough! IT Investment and Business Process Performance in Higher Education: This report evaluates a study that was designed with the hope of improving the understanding of the complex set of issues surrounding the performance of higher education business processes in higher education, and the influence of information technology (IT), leadership, culture, and other factors on process performance. The state of...; Tags: Operational planning, Performance management, education, business process, performance, leadership, information technology; White papers 2005-06-01
Reaching Efficient Frontiers in IT Investment Management: What Financial Services CIOs Can Learn From Portfolio Theory: Heavily dependent on information technology, financial services firms globally spend over Euro235 billion on IT, representing for large banks 15 percent to 22 percent of their overall non-interest expense. Unfortunately, their investments too often fail to generate anticipated returns and worse many firms do not even know which are paying...; Tags: Strategy, Financial Planning, Financial services, IBM Corp., IT investment, financial service, CIO, information technology, dividend, bank, asset, financial; White papers 2005-02-09

DoD Enterprise Performance Management (DoD-EPM): Optimizing IT Investment Results Across the Enterprise: DoD Enterprise Performance Management (DoD-EPM) is the strategic management of business and IT priorities, investments, and projects across a Federal enterprise. The objective of DoD-EPM is to take full advantage of the synergies across enterprise architecture, portfolio management, and program management office (PMO) disciplines to get maximum strategic value and...; Tags: Business intelligence, Strategy, Headstrong Corp., enterprise performance management, performance management, U.S. Department of Defense, strategic management, enterprise architecture, investment, information technology; White papers 2004-10-20
Managing IT Investments in the High-performance Business: Strategic Information Technology Effectiveness (SITE): The paper presents that Accenture has established an alliance with Mercury to facilitate and accelerate the implementation of Mercury IT Governance. It also augments the tool support to deliver greater value: tested configurations, standard templates and low-cost tool support services all contribute to de-risk and speed up implementation with a...; Tags: Strategy, Accenture Ltd., IT governance, alliance, high-performance, information technology, tool; White papers 2004-06-03
The Boom And Bust In Information Technology Investment: The growth rate of business investment in information technology boomed in the 1990s and 2000 before plunging in 2001. This boom and bust raises some natural questions: what were the reasons for the accentuated swings in growth rates, and, more importantly, what do those reasons portend for the future of...; Tags: Strategy, Federal Reserve Bank, IT investment, business investment, information technology, dot-com, telecommunications; White papers 2004-04-15
Making Smart IT Choices: Understanding Value and Risk in Government IT Investments: There is a need to evaluate information technology (IT) choices because IT innovation is risky business in every organization. Government managers need to evaluate IT choices because they are among the most complex and expensive decisions they are expected to make. This document presents a well-tested methodology for evaluating IT...; Tags: Strategy, information technology, innovation; White papers 2004-04-01
Upfront: Decision Support Outweighs Compliance in IT Investments: For the Chief Financial Officers of some of the leading companies, a need for better decision support capabilities is the top driver of corporate investment in the finance function. This paper depicts about a survey conducted by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, three-quarters of respondents cited gaps in corporate decision...; Tags: Data mining, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Sarbanes-Oxley, Penton Media Inc., decision support, compliance, finance, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, IT investment, business case, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, survey, information technology; White papers 2004-01-01
Federal EPM: Maximizing the Return on IT Investments Across the Enterprise: Federal Enterprise Project Management (Fed-EPM) is the strategic management of business and IT priorities, investments, and projects across a Federal enterprise. The Federal EPM framework provides for strategic IT delivery capabilities. This includes PMO capabilities to support better planning, management, and delivery of projects. It also includes PMO capabilities to...; Tags: Headstrong Corp., strategic management, IT investment, information technology, project management, strategy; White papers 2003-10-09
Information Intensity And Impact Of IT Investments On Productivity: An Industry Level Perspective: Does it pay to invest in IT? Research over the last two decades has resulted in mixed findings. While many studies have shown a positive and significant relationship between IT (Information Technology) investments and firm productivity and performance measures, the question of causality remains: Do higher IT investments contribute to...; Tags: Strategy, IT investment, information technology, performance, industry; White papers 2003-06-11
Building Business Value Into Your IT Investments With Portfolio Management: The webcast elaborates that CFOs face an increasing number of options as they invest in technology-enabled change. At the same time, they also face the daunting task of removing layers of cost from their organizations without sacrificing their ability to compete in their market space. Challenged to overcome past IT...; Tags: Strategy, CFO Publishing Corp., IT investment, information technology, CFO, investment, finance, business process, technique, Webcast, financial, tool; Webcasts 2003-02-26
Evaluating IT Investments In Construction - Accounting For Strategic Flexibility: When investing in IT applications, Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) managers do not only obtain direct benefits, such as immediate cost and time savings, but also the option of adding future applications to the original investment as the business and technical environment changes. The paper shows the major risk to be the adoption...; Tags: Strategy, Investment, Stanford University, risk, IT investment, stock price, accounting, stock, wireless, environment, benefit, information technology; White papers 2003-03-01
IT Governance Best Practices: Maximizing Return On IT Investments: In this webcast the speakers tell about the best practices in IT governance to maximize return on Investments. It defines the different roles of CFOs with the clear strategic objectives. A single portfolio has to be made across all IT and non-IT investments. One has to ensure IT/business alignment by...; Tags: Penton Media Inc., IT governance, information technology, IT investment, financial management, ROI, best practice, Webcast, benefit, environment, financial, strategy; Webcasts 2002-12-04
Obtaining Business Value Through A Downturn: In today's uncertain economic environment, it has become increasingly difficult to justify investments in information technologies. At times, the challenges faced in moving forward on critical IT investments seem insurmountable. However, evidence shows that companies who are able to invest during a downturn face better business prospects in the recovery...; Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., IT investment, information technology, Webcast, environment; Webcasts 2002-11-05
Real Options: The IT Investment Risk-Buster: From the executive summary: ‘Business success has always been closely correlated with an executive’s talent for framing options. The real gift of leaders is their vision to frame deals, deploy technology and intellectual property, and see possibilities that most people overlook. Successful technical innovation is also largely the story of...; Tags: Strategy, Leadership, CMP Media, IT investment, CIO, vision, information technology, talent, intellectual property, leader; White papers 2002-07-01

Additional Resources

A Policy Framework for Investment: Investment Policy: This paper addresses one of the policy areas covered in the Policy Framework for Investment within the context of the OECD Initiative on Investment for Development - investment policy.1 The purpose of this paper is to examine how investment policy contributes to an environment that is attractive to domestic and...; Tags: investment, environment, benefit; White papers 2005-10-25
The OECD Initiative on Investment for Development: A Policy Framework for Investment: Investment Policy: This paper addresses one of the policy areas covered in the Policy Framework for Investment within the context of the OECD Initiative on Investment for Development - investment policy. The purpose of this paper is to examine how investment policy contributes to an environment that is attractive to domestic and...; Tags: OECD, environment, benefit; White papers 2005-07-05
Tax exhaustion, Firm Investment, and Leasing: A Test Of The Q Model Of Investment: This paper incorporates tax exhaustion into a "Q" model of investment to see whether its performance is improved. In addition, leased investment is fully incorporated into the model, in part because tax exhaustion creates incentives to lease investment products and because investment models explain decisions to use equipment, not the...; Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Capital structures, leasing, tax, investment, incentive, finance, performance; White papers 1996-01-01