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  • Unlocking the Power of Zero Cost Transformation - Unlocking the Power of Zero Cost Transformation: Business Acceleration with Minimal Investment

    Unlocking the Power of Zero Cost Transformation: Business Acceleration with Minimal Investment

    Enterprises face the complex challenge of balancing IT investment for growth with maintaining operations amidst global economic uncertainties. The Zero Cost Transformation approach has emerged as a solution, emphasizing repurposing savings from streamlined processes to fund innovation. It involves leveraging cloud solutions and proprietary tools and aligning expenses with business outcomes. Additionally, enterprises should implement the Net Economic Value Added™ (NEVA) approach to assess transformation success, focusing on the impact of innovation on core operations rather than just technology cost reductions. It enables enterprises to navigate economic challenges by prioritizing sustained innovation-led growth over short-term cost efficiencies.

    April, 2024

  • IT Best Practices - Using Economic Value to Justify IT Investments

    Using Economic Value to Justify IT Investments

    For a new IT investment to be approved, the CIO must be able to write a business case that speaks directly to executive management in the language of shareholder value. For many companies, this means understanding the basic concept of Economic Value Added (EVA)--a powerful tool for calculating the business value of an IT investment. This report is an "EVA primer," providing a simple example of the EVA calculation for a fictitious company and the improvement in EVA from a proposed IT investment. The report also provides insights into why improved asset turnover is often the best path to improving the economic value of an IT investment. (5 pp., 3 figs.) [Executive Summary]

    November, 2005

  • Research Bytes - Using EVA to Justify IT Investments: Executive Summary

    Using EVA to Justify IT Investments: Executive Summary

    For a large new IT investment to be approved, the CIO must be able to write a business case that speaks directly to executive management in the language of shareholder value. This article is an Executive Summary of our full report, Using Economic Value to Justify IT Investments, which provides a basic introduction to the concept of Economic Value Added (EVA) and its use as a powerful tool for calculating the business value of an IT investment.

    September, 2005