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Cost/Benefit

Why should organizations fund the performance of projects? Well, to make more money than they'd make without 'em! This area is all about the techniques for demonstrating how these benefits outweigh the related costs.

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Instant Messaging: Breaking the Bad ROI Rap
- by Rebecca Wettemann
Do the benefits of instant messaging on the corporate desktop outweigh the costs?

Targeting Perfection
- by Tracy Mayor
See how the Six Sigma process methodology applies to IT and what it can and cannot do for you.

A Three-Step Assessment
- by Darlene Barrientos Crane and Marjery Mayer
Learn which two elements are often missing from investment analysis. Financial calculations are just a part of the foundation of information needed to ensure business value from technology.

Measure for Measure
- by John Thorp
Without a strong measurement system, the basis for well-informed decisions will crumble, and the quality of decisions will be suspect.

The Good, the Bad and the Performance-Driven
- by Tony Friscia
The best companies take advantage of economic slowdowns to strengthen their organizations and find ways to gain competitive advantage.

Value Judgments
- by Richard Pastore
Meet the winners of the Enterprise Value Awards. Find out which companies not only understand process, but live it.

ROI is a Matter of Setting Priorities
- by Michael Atherton
Applying faster technology to a system that has slow, ill-conceived or non-adaptive processes will not achieve the desired returns.

The Total Value of Opportunity Approach
- by Audrey Apfel
How to use the total value of opportunity (TVO) methodology to measure the business value of IT investments.

META Report: IIS Users Should Invest in Security, Not Migration
- by Meta Group Staff
As a result of the code flaws and higher profile of Microsoft's software, IIS users must assign more resources simply to tracking and installing new patches.

Technology Briefing: VPN Security
- by Gerald Williams
As more employees work at home and become mobile, corporations need to allow easy access to their networks. Virtual Private Networks--which create connections between servers or a workstation and a server using public switched facilities--are a flexible solution.



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