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- 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...
- White papers 2005-02-09
- 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...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- 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...
- White papers 2003-10-09
- 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...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- 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...
- Webcasts 2002-11-05
- 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...
- Webcasts 2003-02-26
- 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...
- White papers 2004-10-20
- Managing IT Investments In The High-Performance Business
- Most companies spend too much time debating how much money to spend on IT and not enough time determining how to manage and allocate their IT spending capital and expense. For chief executive officers and chief information officers seeking high-performance results from the use of IT, the real challenge is...
- White papers 2004-06-03
- SOA: Tailwind For IT Investments
- Service-oriented architecture is about to overturn what most business leaders think they know about IT. CEOs who ask the right questions - and act quickly on the answers - will be surprised by how much more they can get out of their existing IT investments. Several early examples show why.
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Measuring The Business Value Of IT
- There's an old management axiom: You can't manage what you don't measure. Yet many organizations do a very poor job or no job at all of measuring the business value of their IT investments; but maximizing the business value of IT investments is the primary objective of good...
- White papers 2006-09-25
- 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...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- 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...
- White papers 2006-02-14
- 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...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- 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...
- White papers 2003-06-11
- 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...
- White papers 2004-04-15
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- UK's Nationwide Building Society Seeing Benefits from Expanded Unisys IT Services and Enterprise Computing Technology
- Unisys support services, mainframe upgrade and advanced storage solutions help boost Nationwide's growth strategy and optimise IT investment
- Research articles 2007-05-17
- Bringing New Clarity To Brand Management And Strategy
- This paper documents a recent breakthrough in measuring the relationship between brand health and value creation. The breakthrough was achieved by pairing the world's most authoritative brand database with the most accurate metric of financial performance. The result is the first econometric model that calculates brand values based entirely on...
- White papers 2002-02-07
- Fresh Look at Strategy Under Uncertainty
- Although even the highest levels of uncertainty don't prevent businesses from analyzing predicaments rationally, says author Hugh Courtney, the financial crisis has shown us the limits of our tools—and minds. Hugh Courtney's book, 20/20 Foresight: Crafting Strategy in an Uncertain World, was published the...
- Articles 2009-02-27
- 10 things about Microsoft's PDC 2009: The good, the bad and the ugly
- By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Microsoft's 2009 developer conference wrapped up yesterday in Los Angeles. Not since PDC 2003 has Microsoft talked so much and said so little. As I listened to the keynotes and have reviewed the sessions, words "series finale" repeatedly popped...
- News items 2009-11-20
- Developing an Online Strategy
- An increasing number of marketing activities including advertising, direct marketing, relationship-building, customer service, and channel support are now Internet-based. It's essential to identify the activities that can move effectively to the Web and ensure that they're produced to the same rigorous standards as traditional marketing activities. An online strategy can...
- Articles 2007-12-18
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