Real Options: The IT Investment Risk-Buster
- Topics:
- Project Management
- Tags:
- CIO,
- CMP Media,
- Information Technology,
- IT Investment,
- Management,
- Strategy,
- Vision
- Source:
- CMP Media
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Overview: From the executive summary: ‘Business success has always been closely correlated with an executive’s talent for framing options. The real gift of leaders is their vision to frame deals, deploy technology and intellectual property, and see possibilities that most people overlook. Successful technical innovation is also largely the story of research scientists and engineers that have creatively linked new discoveries with lucrative markets. CIOs, with their deep understanding of developing technologies, also can assume the role of building a vision for future and linking new resources to company's value-creating engines. However, as they do, the traditional measures for evaluating the return and the acceptable risk of technology purchases no longer fit the bill. CIOs need a new way to measure the return on IT investments.’ The paper provides real-options approach to value IT projects.
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Format: HTML | Date: Jul 2002 | Pages: 7
