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Governance and Investment Management

Is reality exhausted by what is, or does it leave room for all that could be?

Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought

We do not desire a thing because we judge it to be good; on the contrary, we call the object of our desire good, and consequently the object of our aversion bad.

Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

An enterprise wants to direct its resources to investments that will deliver the most value. In Chapter 4 I discussed business value in the context of the value we can expect IT investments to generate. This chapter will look at how to decide which IT activities to fund in order to garner that value.

IT investment management has been seen as a process of weighing the merits of a proposed IT initiative, ...

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