Business Case Report

High-Performance IT Requires A New Approach To Making Investment Decisions

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Updated Apr 04, 2025

Summary

Traditional accounting-driven (ROI-driven) business cases are an obstacle to high-performance IT (HPIT) strategies when the dominant IT style includes cocreating, amplifying, or transforming. They favor safe, cost-focused business strategies over bold innovation and undervalue adaptivity and resilience. To help their firms better meet their goals, tech execs need new ways to evaluate innovative proposals that recognize and align with the complete range of business strategies. This report gives you practical guidance and tools — including links to a customizable financial model, certification for how to apply it, and a sample pitch deck for using the model — to build next-generation iterative business cases by acting like business-driven investors rather than accountants.

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