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I need to put together a report that consits of what the companies current IT looks like, it's future requirements, the costs for what is needed and the ROI of such. Does anyone know of a template or modular methodology that I could use to facilitate this.
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by wordworker

Costs:
* Warm bodies: #FTE, #contract, their salaries
* Current infrastructure: SW, HW assets
* Future needs - storage, OS upgrades, new hires/new HW, software licenses

ROI is tricky. What's the cost of NOT upgrading? What's the cost of NOT developing that new system?

Sorry to be so vague, but this is quite a broad question you've posed. Maybe some other folks can point you to templates.

by oldefar

Jeff hit the key points on costs.

I am guessing that the companies in question are current or potential clients of your firm's services. Their ROI will be related to filling available time slots, with the most profitable services, with the shortest time between billing and payment receipt. Along the way there are a number of legal requirements they must comply with. Your company of course providing the technology tools that enable this versus manual operation or competitor solutions.

Business objectives - ability to expand and leverage fixed costs for higher profits.
Business requirements - tasks that must be done, regulations that must be followed, records that must be kept.

ROI - costs of your solutions versus revenues their business can generate plus penalties avoided.

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