Posts Tagged ‘Value realization’
Whether a purchase delivered after go-live, and who checks once the project closes.
In the book: Chapter 1: The Illusion of Value (1) · Chapter 3: Value Drift (1) · Chapter 6: Tech Bloat as Governance Failure (1) · Chapter 7: Value Is Not Promised; It Is Proven (4) · Chapter 9: The Value Control Loop (2) · Chapter 11: Outcome Credibility Markets (1) · Chapter 12: Compounded Value (1) · Chapter 14: Who Controls Value Engagement? (1) · Chapter 15: The Value Lattice System (1) · Chapter 17: VIGOR: Governance and Realization (1) · Chapter 19: Preemptive Value Architecture (1) · Chapter 20: The Buyer Value Practice (1) · Chapter 21: Decision Artifacts That Govern Outcomes (1)
Auditors Couldn’t Find the Data Behind a Program’s Savings Claims
A federal buying program cleared its coverage target. The savings it exists to produce were reported on a fraction of the same spend, and the evidence connecting the two was not available.
Read MoreAn IT Standard Once Required Saying Whether Investments Paid Off
ISACA once published a standard whose last process required a verdict on whether an investment delivered its value. It no longer stands alone, and the obligation it carried has no home.
Read MoreMost Companies Set Goals for Purchases and Never Check Them
Define, evidence, verify, correct. Most organizations run the first arm well and stop. An open loop leaves every purchase downstream of it running on trust rather than record.
Read MoreHow a Purchase Stops Paying Off Without Anything Breaking
Organizations are built to detect failure. Value rarely fails. It drifts, through three forces that each look reasonable at the moment they operate and leave the record looking clean.
Read MoreWhen One Person Tracks Purchase Results, the Record Leaves Too
When judgment is concentrated at a named point, value inherits that point’s fragility. A standard governs without one, and it keeps governing after the named person has moved on.
Read MoreWhy Offices Set Up to Track Purchase Results Keep Getting Cut
The industry’s answer to unrealized value is a new office. An office can be defunded. A standard cannot. The remedy arriving as furniture is a category error.
Read MoreYou Shouldn’t Need Extra Tools to See Whether a Purchase Paid Off
When value is governed by a standard, the record is legible by default, and no one has to install a separate channel to see it.
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