Focused Green IT Benefits

Leave high-level measures to the enterprise sustainability initiative and focus the IT organization on metrics that are in their path of control. ...

... "To sustain focus and support for a green IT strategy, CIOs must select granular performance metrics that enable comparison and prioritisation, such as percentage of equipment entered into recycling programs and power usage efficiency (PUE) or KW/CPU hours delivered. " ...

Via Silicon: CIO Green Guide

Project 10 to the 100 Polls Open for Voting

What projects, if implemented, will have the greatest impact on helping the most people? Google's project idea generation process has been organized into themes and voting its being used to prioritize the projects. Vote now through October 8. ...

... "Project 10^100, a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. Your response was overwhelming. Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted more than 150,000 (or around 10^5.2) ideas, from general investment suggestions to specific implementation proposals. " ...

Via Google, Project 10 to the 100: Vote Here

Evaluating IT Projects in Healthcare Space

AHRQ publishes updated toolkit to support evaluation of healthcare IT projects, including goals, objectives, and quantitative and qualitative benefits. ...

... "Many people feel more comfortable in the realm of numbers and, as a result, frequently design their evaluations solely around quantitative data. But this approach provides only a partial picture of your project. Quantitative data can lead to conclusions about your project that miss the larger picture. " ...

Via Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: IT Project Evaluation Toolkit (PDF)

Holistic Business Case

It's better to be more inclusive in defining project costs and benefits in the initiation process. Let the CFO understand your thought process and refine from there with finance's help, especially if the business is responsible for delivering benefits. ...

... "CFOs see [a project's] budget in [its] totality. There are a lot of other costs that sometimes get left out of the IT project pitch. " ...

Via ZDNet Asia: Gartner on Speaking CFO Language

Project Value Delivery

I like the idea of transforming business cases into the value delivery story with the enabling plan. We should strive for this in the information technology space. Our historical challenge is being able to identify and articulate business value in the first place. But, as we mature, planning for the achievement of value is the next goal. Project plans will not be able to end at system go-live or stabilization. Plans will have to be extended to user adoption, competency demonstration, and organizational process performance and maturity. ...

... "So, we’ve got to change the business case and make it value-focused; centred around the value proposition. Then we’ve got to make the project plan value-focused ... " ...

Via CIO Australia: The New Business Case

Focus on the Positive

Don't forget information technology's role in improving business productivity --- focus on the positive impact --- even common infrstructure, such as telephony, provides the opportunity to drive business benefits. ...

... "Even something as familiar as a telephone system can present challenges for users when changes are introduced. To overcome this, we ran a number of demonstration days, where key individuals from the business were shown the full functionality of the system. " ...

Via iTnews Australia: IT is key