Free Tips for Creating
Effective Business Cases
Tips and Views
20 Ways to Find Tangible Payoffs Others Miss
(A VALUE-on-DemandTMWhite Paper) 14 pages
Most business cases fail because the tangible savings are judged inadequately
by senior decision-makers. Yet, too often the "missing savings" actually
existed, but were just overlooked. This white paper profiles the most common
and easily identified tangible savings area that are missed so that business
case "holes" can be filed before they are submitted to the scrutiny of
management.
ROI NEWS and VIEWS (Vol. 1, No. 1)
(A VALUE-on-DemandTM e-letter) 6 pages
This e-letter is a brief update, compiled by TDF, of important ROI-related
happenings for people who believe that good ROI management drives good IT
value.
How to Build an Intranet
Business Case that Gets Management To Say “Yes”
(A VALUE-on-DemandTM White Paper) 18 pages
The process by which an intranet business case is constructed can make the
difference between receiving management’s “yes” or “no” for a given funding
request. The VALUE-on-Demand™ methods illustrated here are designed to help
avoid typical problems of missed benefits and costs, overlooked decision
participants, and systems, faulty reasoning, etc. Use this process to help
create a better intranet business case in less time.
Hidden Costs that Threaten Data Warehouse Payback
(A VALUE-on-DemandTM White Paper) 8 pages
There are many unrecognized threats to achieving an adequate return on your
data warehouse investment, depending on the complexity and uses planned for the
system. This white page identifies six mistakes that organizations commonly
make that can reduce their ROI. Some of these will be more costly than others,
depending on your situation, but all demand attention when developing a
thorough business case to justify your investment. Based on David De Long’s
year-long study of data warehouse work practices, resulting in his PhD
dissertation: “‘My Job is in the Box: A Field Study of Tasks, Roles, and the
Structuring of Data Base-Centered Work.”
ROI Articles by TDF
Like a quick overview of practical ROI-related methods for IT investment
justifications? Check out the 30+ short (average 650 words each) articles. To find an article of interest, go to the
Datamation web site at www.datamation.com. Once there, use Datamation’s web
site search engine, by entering the keywords “TDF and ROI”.
Examples of articles available:
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The courage to tout intangibles
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Turn "soft" benefits into hard savings
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Follow Sherlock's lead to a better ROI
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Benefit's biggest hits
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The risk of positive thinking
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A feature too far
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What price procrastination?
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Telling stories sells business cases
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Exposing the hidden costs of data-warehouse ROI
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Deflecting political lightning
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Find the hidden truth
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When management won't tell
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It's reasons, not 'rithmetic
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The top 10 reasons NOT to do an ROI business case
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ROI: you've got some explaining to do
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And many more...
For more information, fill out the inquiry form
or call Ron at 609-443-0477.
Lite Side of ROI
"So, Henry! Are we rich or not?"
Claire Boothe Luce, to her husband, Henry Luce, Founder of Time-Life, Inc., upon
his questioning of a $7,000 clothing bill.
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