Projects need owners not sponsors

Get the right names on IT Project Title Deeds

IT people can be difficult to understand at the best of times, especially when describing our beloved technology. But it’s even more confusing for everyone when we deliberately avoid using plain language for non-technical aspects of project management.

For example we still persist with the inconvenient conspiracy that allows IT projects to have highly visible ‘Sponsors’ but invisible or READ MORE

Perfect Pitch

Want more business investment for your IT budget? Here are six quick tips to increase your chances of bringing in more business funding for the IT department.

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improving the integrity of IT investment proposals

TCO = TRUE cost of ownership

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Why do operating budgets become heavily backloaded towards the past, rather than towards future opportunity? Because too many organizations prefer to base business cases for a proposed system on corporate accounting policies, instead of forecasting the true cost of ownership, thereby creating an increasing legacy of sunk costs for years to come.

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how to evaluate IT business cases

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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 READ MORE