Smarter, faster IT decisions: finance has come to play a key role in IT management over the past few years. In fact, more CIOs now report to CFOs than at any time in the past two decades. Reporting relationships aside, as companies struggle to make wise IT investment decisions, companies increasingly look to finance for guidance. But finance is often unable to provide the insights into corporate IT decisions that companies want. Calculating the ROI of a given technology option is not easy, but it doesn’t have to be difficult.

In this live, interactive webcast, experts from Nucleus Research, a company devoted to assessing the ROI of IT investments, will help you learn how to approach ROI the right way, by establishing some key ground rules, defining your terms, and understanding the intricacies of ROI calculations. You’ll learn how to properly gather all costs associated with a project, how to quantify direct and indirect benefits, and how to determine the true payback period. You’ll discover the benefits of determining an average annual figure versus an ROI figure for the life of the project. You will be able to gain confidence in your ability to understand which aspects of an IT project demand the most attention from finance, and where most analysis often goes awry.

In addition, experts from Nucleus will provide several case studies that put this information into a real-world context, and discuss key mistakes to avoid on major IT initiatives, such as ERP and CRM. We’ll also take a look at which emerging technologies bear watching, how e-commerce strategies are evolving, and how business intelligence (BI) and analytics are helping companies harness the true power of IT.

Given the huge percentage of capital spending that most companies devote to IT, it’s time to make sure that those investments are being made wisely. This webcast will give you the tools you need to make the best IT decisions possible.