Business Case for IS Investment: Draft

Business Case for Investment: Outline The key to showing why investing in any type of business expenditure, such as Information Systems (IS), is creating a business case document. Executives want to see a plan and some sort of prototype done with other businesses or on a document showing the hardware and software needed for an IS. The key project manager and key stakeholders are responsible for creating a good business case for investment. They should also include testing protocols and standards to keep the project focused and with a specified budget. Security to all enterprise systems such as databases, servers, and the organizations ERP requires attention in a business case as well. The document writers must also show the ROI and how the new technology will integrate into the organization's legacy systems. This is a daunting task for a team to take on and extremely time consuming. With these steps and plans, we will outline the prototyping environments and processes, testing design to include procedures and standards, source of accessibility, and integration. Prototyping environments and processes Choosing the correct prototyping methods requires careful planning and analysis for the type of business that an IS is being implemented. When planning, stakeholders need to determine where a high-functioning prototype will receive funding, or if a lower quality parts estimate will be adequate. The decision will come down to the cost versus the potential benefit, and there is no standard measure for this first level prototyping decision (Lokesh & Jain, 2010). The prototyping process uses a trial and error approach to discovering how a system should operate. The flow of the prototyping process includes collection requirements, develop/refine prototype, review