How to Profit: 2

The Profit Business Value Approach™

1. A model called The Layers of Focus, used to identify those issues having a significant impact on business value
2. A number of associated Concepts, Principles, Guidelines and Techniques (CPGTs) used to address the issues highlighted by The Layers of Focus

The CPGTs are arranged into Modules:

• Role Definition for Business Value Specialists
• Functional Concepts
• Computer Culture Assimilation
• Principles of Automation (redefined)
• Business Practice and Contingency
• Decision Making (value based)
• Practical Functional Design (value based)
• Strategic Effectiveness

A brief description of each Profit From Information module

• Role Definition for Business Value Specialists
  Profit from Information has redefined the role of the multi-skilled intermediary that ‘bridges’ between the business and IS/IT to include the crucial business value elements. The role and its skills are the foundation of The Profit Business Value Approach™. We provide assistance with skill development for professionals wishing to perform such a role as consultants or in-house.

• Functional Concepts
  A set of concepts used to ensure information systems give maximum support to business objectives

• Computer Culture Assimilation
  Guidelines to help harness the potential of auto-assisted processing into the business – with maximum effect and minimum disruption

• Principles of Automation (redefined)
  Ensures that people and software combine in the most effective way, using their respective best characteristics. Includes sub-module Data and Process Representivity that helps to maximise the quality of the real world-information system data transportation functionality in respect of information accuracy as well as optimising process appropriateness between the real world and the system

• Business Practice and Contingency
  Ensures that, once a system is live, the combination of humans and computers works more effectively and efficiently than previously, and not less so.

• Decision Making (value based)
  Guidelines for decision making that give full emphasis to value and benefits against the business’s objectives

• Practical Functional Design (value based)
  Principles and techniques for imbuing design with the flexibility and dynamism required to maximise business value

• Strategic Effectiveness
  Macro level strategies to engender maximum business value across time, phases, projects, programmes, etc

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