The Business Case Checklist: Everything You Need to Review a Business Case, Avoid Failed Projects, and Turn Technology into ROI - Softcover

Pro, Business Case

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982376197 ISBN 13: 9780982376195

Publisher: Business Case Pro LLC, 2009

Synopsis

Most IT initiatives fail. Use The Business Case Checklist to avoid adding your technology project (and career) to the list of casualties. This is the first professional-grade checklist that helps business case writers and ROI reviewers make faster decisions and better technology investments. In this checklist, you'll find: 1. 12 fundamental questions to ask of any business case. 2. A business case template for all your technology investment decisions. 2. 73 best practices to implement this checklist and help you make faster, better technology investments immediately. 3. The 5 universal principles for technology investment, offering you lessons from 25 years of experience and 51-book research. 4. An investment grade to guide and communicate your decision. The Business Case Checklist will help you: -- Justify your technology investment if you are a project manager or technology executive. -- Sell your technology with a fact-based business case if you offer technology products, services, or solutions. -- Review business cases quickly and effectively if you are a decision maker asked to fund technology investments.

About this title

About the Author:

John Finneran is an IT value expert and a business writer. Along with 32 articles for The Motley Fool, he has authored The Business Case Checklist and is drafting a new book, The One-Page Business Case. John's article on the perils of entrepreneurship (at least for him), The Fat Startup, has had over 30,000 readers. He is also outlining a book based on this article. His personal website is www.johnffinneran.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Business Case Pro LLC
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0982376197
• ISBN 13: 9780982376195
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48