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Cheat Sheet: How to write a business case
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This is a practical resources for how to build a business case. Every time I'm asked to write up a business case to justify a request, I cringe. I know I'm going to have to go out to Google and wade through a sea of vendor white papers or people selling books and services to find a template or something I can use as a starting point.

To make it easier on myself, I'm going to post the most useful Web resources I could find in one spot. Here. Please help me build this list or add your own 2 cents about building a business case.

Calculating ROI to cost justify IT security and compliance budgets
http://roiforitsecurity.blogspot.com/2007/11/calculating-roi-to-justify-information.html

Justifying New Tech Investments: Developing the Business Case
http://www.softwaremag.com/L.cfm?doc=0405-ThoughtLeadership-R-Breslauer

Business Case Tutorial Series - How to write an effective business case
http://www.prosci.com/tutorial-business-case-mod1.htm

How to write a business case
http://www.accountis.com/documents/accountis_articlebcase1.pdf

The Business Case for Investing in Security Awareness
http://www.thesecurityco.com/kzscripts/default.asp?cid=25

Writing a Business Case
http://nlplatt.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/writing-a-business-case/

Sample business plan, marketing plan or sales plan sample structure and example format/template
http://www.businessballs.com/freebusinessplansandmarketingtemplates.htm#free%20business%20plan%20marketing%20plan%20sample%20template

Best practices for a quality SOA business case
http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1274203,00.html

Guidelines for Developing a Business Case & Business Case Template
http://dhsresources.hr.state.or.us/WORD_DOCS/DE0096C.doc

How to Develop a Business Case
http://home.pacifier.com/~axis/S10case.html

Business case guidance
http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/core/page.do?pageId=5820975

Developing the Business Case for IT Investment
http://www.google.com/searchhl=en&rlz=1T4GFRC_en___US214&q=developing+a+business+case

Developing the Right Business Case (video)
http://www.podtech.net/home/2551/developing-the-right-business-case

Developing a Business Case for an XML Authoring System
http://www.idealliance.org/papers/xml2001/papers/html/03-03-03.html

Guidelines for Developing a Project Business Case
http://www.nd.gov/itd/planning/buscase.html

Developing Your Shared Services/Outsourcing Business Case
http://www.sourcingmag.com/content/c070115a.asp
ASKED: Dec 12 2007  1:09 PM GMT
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