IT Cost Management

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, the students will be able to: Complete the amount of software and the amount of data that invested in asset; Make a diagram / schema of the ABR pictures end development of the business picture; Explain ICT investment as an asset; Explain a timeline view of ICT-based evaluation of ideas; Explain the required concept for accounting business case and be able to place financial estimation of intangible benefits; Produce a risk analysis using spreadsheets; Make IT or IS department’s budget and strategic planning of information systems; Calculate the total IT investment; Adjust the assessment of the strategy.

Topics

1. The evaluation of IT investment – a 50 year odyssey
2. The elusive nature of ICT benefits
3. The role of instinct in ICT benefits assessment
4. The total ICT investment
5. Costing ICT
6. Issues and techniques of ICT evaluation
7. ICT cost control; ICT business case accounting
8. Risk analysis
9. Evaluation of the IT function
10. Ranking and scoring
11. Value for money and health checks
12. Designing IT surveys for benefit measurement
13. Evaluation and ABR project management.