About VITA™ iValue is at the vanguard of the trend to quantify the effect corporate decisions have on shareholder value. Nearly half of corporate capital expenditures are for information technology. Often these funds are released without a careful, disciplined, and rigorous economic assessment. The result is an unnecessarily high number of technology failures for shareholders. Now, iValue can help you assess the effect of an IT system on shareholder value. We take a comprehensive approach to IT decisions that combines an intuitive understanding of the ways information technology can create or destroy value, with an analytical measurement of the estimated impact. iValue has developed a proprietary tool, VITA™, designed to measure the value of an information technology system. It can be used:

• before a system is built, to decide whether make an investment
• while a system is being built, to guide the development effort
• after a system is built, to assess whether to decommission legacy systems 
• for comparing system alternatives, to decide which to pursue or to manage them as a portfolio 
• to determine the degree of importance of a system 
• to reveal critical success factors for a system 
• to weigh whether to make or buy a system
• for sizing the benefits of merging or divesting a system

The VITA™ measurement process itself can be incorporated into the strategy, operations, and organization of a company, to instill economic discipline applying information technology. When a system needs to be evaluated, the measurement process establishes:

• what questions to ask 
• what the answers should look like 
• how to do the analysis to get the answers