Pick the winners...

Most business cases for IT enabled business change programmes set out to demonstrate a return on investment (ROI) in a set period.

But this is not enough, you need to know which programmes and investments are likely to show the best ROI, and which best support your business strategy. And then focus on this subset of programmes concentrating on making these a success, rather than diluting efforts by taking on too much.

This calls for an approach to evaluating your programme portfolio taking into account risk, costs, ROI, complexity, value, alignment to strategy etc. It allows companies to actively manage their portfolios for business value, making timely adjustments to reflect changes in their business environment and strategic priorities and to monitor these investments throughout their lifecycle.

Fujitsu’s Value Management approach combines our experience in business and IT consulting with the market-leading ProSight tool to do just this. ProSight’s strength lies in its visual power to manipulate the portfolio on screen, conducting what-if scenarios and seeing the impact of adding or removing investments in graphical form. For individual programmes, Fujitsu can help build the business case through:

• An insight into what existing and future technology could mean for your business
• Benefits Realisation which identifies the specific benefits projects should bring, and builds a programme to ensure that those benefits are realised
• Providing financing options to ensure that the costs and savings are distributed across capital and operational expenditure, according to your financial objectives