Chapter 16. Develop Return on Investment

“Follow the money.”

Deep Throat (Hal Holbrook)[1]

[1] All The President's Men, Alan J. Pakula, Director; Carl Bernstein (book), Bob Woodward, Writer, 1976.

So you're nearly there. The final process in developing a complete, state-of-the-art business case is to finalize your project costings and to calculate the financial return on investment (ROI; see Figure 16.1).

Figure 16.1. Develop cost and ROI scenarios

You will probably do this after the RAP is complete, but, as for all our plan ning and project management processes, you'll have to completely involve your stakeholders.

In many cases, you will have ...

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