IDG Contributor Network: 5 mistakes to avoid when building the business case for IT

At Nucleus we’ve been working with clients to build the business case for their technology projects for the better part of two decades. Early on, we issued our “ROI Manifesto,” which outlined the concept of developing business cases around current and planned IT expenditures—ultimately, to align CIOs and IT executives with their peers in finance. While this concept has become more accepted today, at the time, it was radical thinking:Now, more than ever before, companies a