Building an AI Investment Case That Can Be Tested
A pilot cannot rescue a case whose baseline, costs, or thresholds were never written down. Measure review time first, count every cost, and set the stop rule before the results arrive.
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Build, Buy, Keep, Replace, or Stop Decisions
A council compares complete strategies for its benefits system, separates migration from future exit, and calculates when a higher-priced option pays off.
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Technology Budgets and Total Cost of Ownership
A partial four-million estimate becomes nine million over the same three years. Reconcile the costs, then test the assumptions behind the next case.
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Exit Cost
Estimate planned and urgent exits separately: data transfer, logic changes, rebuilt operations, contracts, and transition work all affect the cost.
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Choosing a Data Platform
When every product checks every box, the feature matrix has stopped deciding anything. Here is what to compare instead, and the procedure that makes it hold up.
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Total Cost of Ownership
Estimate total cost of ownership over a stated period and workload: license, integration, operation, review effort, and exit, with sensitivity shown.