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Return on Investment

Where is the ROI in IT? CIO.com, November 2002. "New Survey Shows that CIOs Are Counting Their Pennies—But Not Measuring the Results of Their IT Investments..."

Beyond ROI in e-government: introducing the Public Value of IT, By Andrea Di Maio, Research Vice President at Gartner. Interchange of Data Between Administrations, 16 December 2003. "This article looks at why traditional benchmarking approaches and financial methods to appraise return on investments (ROI) do not work to really assess the benefits of e-government investments..."

Calculating security ROI is tricky business, By Marcia J. Wilson. Computerworld, July 24, 2003. "Return on security investment has become a hot topic. IT departments have traditionally been viewed as cost centers, though they have learned to provide a business-case analysis for IT initiatives. Information security departments are trying to figure out how to do the same thing..."

ROI backlash: Why is it not meeting CIO expectations? By Rob O’Neill. MIS Magazine, March 2003. "For a year or more, executive management has been intent on reining in IT through increased management control and stringent ROI metrics, but within IT, the backlash has already started..."

ROI 101: Making the Business Case for Technology Investments, By Rebecca Wettemann. CIO, May 14, 2003. "Return on investment (ROI) is a textbook methodology for financial managers - and is rapidly being recognized as a critical metric for understanding the value of a technology investment. But you don't have to be a financial wiz to build a business case for technology - you just need to know how the financial Wizzes do it..."

ROI: Reasons why bashing it isn’t enough, By Richard Wood, Rob O’Neill. MIS New Zealand, May 2003. "MIS asks IT bosses to put the return on investment metric into business perspective. Only a couple of years ago, return on investment (ROI) was hailed at management level as the way to bring IT to heel in the aftermath of the dotcom crash..."

ROI's Secret Ingredient - Numbers aren't everything. Don't underestimate the importance of weaving a good story into your business case, by Jack Keen. CIO Magazine, June 15, 2003. GOOD BUSINESS CASES are calculated based on numbers, but they are approved based on stories. My favorite example is the business case created for a notoriously penny-pinching founder and chairman of a billion-dollar services company. All the numbers shouted savings. But what sold the aging chairman was the CFO's pitch that spending money on better human resources systems would return his faltering firm to its former glory...."

Indirect Return on Investment - By showing companies how e-government can improve their bottom line, CIOs can help business and themselves, By William D. Eggers. Public CIO, August 2003. "Donna Klein is an accountant at J. Cleo Thompson & James Cleo Thompson Jr., a small Texas oil and gas producer with 20 full-time employees. As part of her job, she has the unenviable task of filling out all the government paperwork that allows the firm to conduct business without running afoul of the law. To do her job well, Klein has learned something she was never taught in accounting class: the art of navigating government red tape. Each month she completes 11 different forms for four separate state agencies -- and that doesn't include the federal paperwork. "I spend about one week each month just doing government paperwork and reporting," she said..."

Security ROI can't be proved, By Eddie Schwartz. Computerworld, July 25, 2003. "I would like to provide a counterpoint to Marcia Wilson's article regarding Security ROI. I am in the camp of people who don't believe that security as an IT discipline can demonstrate ROI effectively. There are a number of reasons for this statement..."

Traditional Return on Investment measures do not work in Government, says Gartner. eGovernment News – 16 July 2003 – Global – Policy/Strategy. "Research company Gartner issued on 9/07/03 a note warning that private-sector methods are a good start, but not necessarily the solution to quantify the return on IT investments in government..."

ROI Calculators - Resources by Nucleus Research. Computerworld, February 9, 2004. "Need to make a business case for a big IT investment? These spreadsheet-based workbooks, developed by ROI consultancy Nucleus Research Inc., will help you calculate the bottom-line value of ERP, supply chain, storage management and other IT projects. Plug in your data, and these workbooks do the math! You can calculate the following..."

The Tao of ROI - It's definitely a journey. Not an end in itself, By Sandra Winters. Darwin Magazine, June 1, 2004. "ROI ANALYSIS IS AN important part of your due diligence for new IT investment. How could you even think of participating in a new business venture or investing in another company without it? While ROI analysis is a must-do for any self-respecting management team, ROI is often misused and little understood..."

Return on Investment In Information Technology: A Guide for Managers. Center for Technology in Government, August 2004. "Abstract - New information technology (IT) systems are serious, and potentially risky, investments for government agencies and nonprofit organizations. This guide is designed to help public sector managers better understand how a return on investment (ROI) analysis can take some of that risk out of their next IT investment."

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