Topic: business value of IT

 This paper describes an eight (8) step process to develop IT Strategy - "...to make IT a strategic business enabler, enhance shareholder value, and mitigate risk."

This business case template provides an outline to create a business case for your IT Investments linked to business value.

 Align business and IT strategy using Tracy and Wiersema’s Value Discipline model and "technology themes"

 This paper explains in depth the Economic Value Added (EVA) framework, its proper use and compares the framework to other value measurement frameworks.

 This paper presents a research study to evaluate six computing models using Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) framework.

An excellent guide to Economic Value Added (EVA) - it introduces the framework and provides good guidance on it use. The handbook approaches the topic from a general manager's perspective (not from a quant jock's perspective) so it makes the concepts easier to understand.

This cost estimation guide provides invaluable information on cost estimation - throughout a project's lifecycle and its connection to other levers of value creation such as risk.

 This paper explores the connection between IT value and IT Balanced Scorecard/IT Strategy Maps. It describes patterns of IT value i.e. ways in which IT creates/enables value, connects IT value with cascaded and linked strategic objectives and discusses how IT values are described in BSC’s perspectives.