Method and system for assessing and quantifying the business value of an information techonology (IT) application or set of applications
First Claim
1. The method for determining an organization specific value of an information technology application in a system having computer-based infrastructure, user and computer support, as a consequence of an applied variation to that system comprising the steps of:
- (a) deriving a base application value corresponding with the cost of an application use cost construct;
(b) deriving a business experience based coefficient for said cost construct derived in step (a), said coefficient representing the relative productivity contribution represented by said cost construct to said application;
(c) uplifting said base application value to provide an actual application value for said application by generating the product of the value of said cost construct and said business experience based coefficient;
(d) increasing said actual application value by the value of the highest optimized business value of a an enablement attribute construct of said application to provide a maximum business value of said application; and
(e) modifying maximum said business value of said application in correspondence with a derived operational cost of said application to derive the net business value of said application as said organization specific value.
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Abstract
Method and system for assessing and quantifying the business value of an information technology application or set of applications, particularly as those application or applications are subjected to a proposed change or variation. The method includes steps wherein a base application value is derived, following which a business experience based coefficient or factor is derived and, by using that coefficient or factor, the base application value is uplifted to provide an actual application value for an application or applications. A potential business value is derived by operating on the actual application value with a value representing the perceived value of an enablement attribute construct corresponding with the noted change to be applied. The ultimately sought net business value is derived for an application by removing the operational cost of the application from the potential business value. As an adjunct to the method the actual application value may be increased by the value of the highest optimized business value of an enablement attribute construct of the application to provide upper bound maximum business value of an application for comparing the relative results of any given analysis.
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1. The method for determining an organization specific value of an information technology application in a system having computer-based infrastructure, user and computer support, as a consequence of an applied variation to that system comprising the steps of:
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(a) deriving a base application value corresponding with the cost of an application use cost construct;
(b) deriving a business experience based coefficient for said cost construct derived in step (a), said coefficient representing the relative productivity contribution represented by said cost construct to said application;
(c) uplifting said base application value to provide an actual application value for said application by generating the product of the value of said cost construct and said business experience based coefficient;
(d) increasing said actual application value by the value of the highest optimized business value of a an enablement attribute construct of said application to provide a maximum business value of said application; and
(e) modifying maximum said business value of said application in correspondence with a derived operational cost of said application to derive the net business value of said application as said organization specific value. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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9. The method of claim I in which said step (d) of increasing said actual application value includes the step of:
(d1) determining an upper bound for said value of the highest optimized business value of an enablement attribute construct and providing that upper bound as said maximum business value of said application.
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15. A system for determining an organization specific value of an information technology application in a computer based infrastructure, comprising:
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a manual input terminal assembly having a perceptible readout and controllable to provide an input field for receiving treated derivative data and an output field for conveying artful data corresponding with attributes of said infrastructure;
a data interchange assembly controllable to provide an input field for receiving treated data and an output field for conveying treated attribute data corresponding with attributes of said infrastructure;
a memory retained model program controllable to respond to said artful data conveyed from said terminal assembly and to said treated attribute data for generating model derived treated derivative data;
at least one multi-cell aggregation field retained in memory, controllable to respond to said model derived treated derivative data, to said artful data and to said treated derivative data to provide said organization specific value; and
a controller configured for carrying out control of said terminal assembly, said data interchange assembly, said model program and control of said aggregation field to generate said organization specific value.
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26. A system for determining an organization specific value of an information technology application in a computer based infrastructure, comprising:
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a manual input terminal assembly having a perceptible readout, an input field for receiving treated data and an output field for conveying artful data corresponding with attributes of said infrastructure;
a data interchange assembly having an input field for receiving treated data on an output field for conveying treated attribute data corresponding with attributes of said infrastructure;
a memory retained dedicated model program responsive to said artful data conveyed from said terminal assembly and to said treated attribute data for generating model derived treated derivative data;
multi-cell aggregation fields with first and second hierarchal levels retained in temporary memory, controllable to respond to said model derived treated derivative data, to said artful data and to said treated derivation data to provide said organization specific value; and
a controller configured for carrying out switching control of said multi-cell aggregation fields.
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29. The method for determining organization specific net business values of first through nth information technology applications in a system having a computer infrastructure, users and computer support, as a consequence of an applied variation to that system, comprising the steps of:
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(a) deriving base application values corresponding with an application use cost construct for respective ones of said applications;
(b) deriving a business experience base factor for each said cost construct derived in step (a), each said factor representing the relative productivity contribution represented by a said cost construct to its corresponding application;
(c) uplifting said base application value for each of said applications by operating upon each with a said business experience based factor to provide actual application values for each said application;
(d) deriving a potential business value for each of said applications by operating upon each said actual application value with a value corresponding with a perceived value of an enablement attribute construct corresponding with said variation; and
(e) deriving a said net business value for each said application by deriving and removing the operational cost of the corresponding said application from a respective said potential business value.
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38. The method for determining an organization specific net business value of an information technology application with a system having a computer-based infrastructure, user and computer support, as a consequence of an applied variation to that system, comprising the steps of:
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(a) deriving a base application value corresponding with an application use cost construct;
(b) deriving a business experience based factor for said cost construct derived in step (a), said factor corresponding with the relative productivity contribution represented by said cost construct to said application;
(c) uplifting said base application value for said application to provide an actual application value by operating upon it with said business experience based factor;
(d) deriving a potential business value for said application by operating upon said actual application value with a value representing a perceived value of an enablement attribute construct corresponding with said variation; and
(e) deriving said net business value of said information technology application by deriving and removing the operational cost of said application from said potential business value.
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