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improving the integrity of IT investment proposals
 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. a cautionary tale about over-expectation and over-selling
 If IT had delivered every benefit promised over the past twenty years, our businesses would be so cash-rich by now that it would be positively embarrassing to read the Balance Sheets. But they are not. So can business Emperors still be seduced by technology Sorcerers? Return on Integrity Many of us have seen the acronym ROI, used in a business proposal to claim hoped-for return on investment. But I believe that the term ROI more accurately reflects quite a different measure: Return on Integrity. Disappointment and unexpected cost are still the most likely outcomes of investment in IT. Why? We are already well into the 21st Century and yet we remain firmly stuck in the outdated IT-centric paradigm of the 1990s. The prevailing focus remains exclusively on IT, with scant recognition that IT is only a subsidiary component of an Information System; paradoxically, this Continue reading article » |
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