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Business Value of Virtualization

Invention, creativity, ingenuity, risk and opportunism have always thrived during times of strife and crisis. It is safe to say that the wild financial market fluctuations over the past weeks define strife and crisis. How does a company overcome the hurdles it is facing in the near term as well as put a solid foundation in place for the long run? In a word, virtualize.

Social Networking - What is the Business Value?

Social networking has become widely adopted in the consumer and personal market place, but has not gotten the anticipated traction in the business world. I’ve been mulling over this market dilemma for a long time and have developed some ideas to explain the lagging business adoption.

How Business can Help IT Deliver 'Real Value' to the Business

Organisations need to change their focus from being functionally driven to being process driven to be really successful in their adoption of BPM. This is not always as hard as it first sounds. Most of the organisational and technical building blocks almost surely already exist within the organisation in some form or other.

HCR Releases Business Value ROI Workbook for IT Initiatives

This free Excel tool is a comprehensive general-purpose business value model (ROI calculator) to support the development of business cases for enterprise-scale information technology-based projects. It provides a robust structure to help organizations assess the business value (costs, benefits, TCO, and ROI) of technology projects/initiatives.

This workbook can be used as a standard corporate business case template for technology-based initiatives. It can also be used by consultants and technology vendors to articulate the business value of their products and solutions.