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Ameen Abozaid
Planned lessonARC-010-L05

The modernization business case

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make a case a CFO can evaluate.

Planned topics

  • Benefits: revenue enabled, cost avoided, risk reduced; each with an estimate and confidence.
  • Costs: build or buy, migration, dual running, training, retirement, and ongoing run.
  • Compare with doing nothing, including the cost of delay and risk.
  • State assumptions and sensitivities; verify numbers with finance.
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Demonstration

a one-page table: option, cost over five years, benefits, payback, risk, with "do nothing" as the baseline row.

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Why include "do nothing" as an option?

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It is the baseline that shows the real cost and risk of leaving things.

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