The difficulty of calculating the return on an IT investment often has weakened the case for funding such initiatives. Financial managers and other decision makers expect requests for IT funding to be ...

As they say, you manage what you measure. Accordingly, an entire industry has developed around performance measurement and performance management. Popular tools include the Balanced Scorecard, ...

Performance measures must align with portfolio use and features. Avoid Sharpe and similar ratios due to flaws; consider alternatives like trimmed alpha, median returns, and value at risk. CAGR is ...

The objective of performance management is to track organizational performance through specific performance measures, commonly referred to as an IT scorecard. While the use of IT scorecards can ...

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