Our Framework

This unique framework was developed by director David Jacobs, first conceived in the 1990s, because industry, on a global basis, was having trouble being confident that business computerisation was delivering any net benefit! It therefore concentrates on practical ways to generate maximum value from IT in a business or organisational context in a way that is powerful and effective.

BVMF® provides easy to understand visual models and a set of associated techniques. There are many 'Unique Selling Points' (USPs) to BVMF® - it works with any other method, approach or practice so nothing is lost, and crucially defines the essential ingredients of IT business value in a way that other methods do not. Arising in the first place from the first, second and third hand experience of one qualified individual in its conception rather than being produced by a committee, BVMF® is highly focused, concentrated and consistent. It works!

Structure

BVMF® centres around 100 integrated models that describe and define the main challenges to overcome at a macro level. The models also provide a solution and way forward starting to move from macro to micro solution mode. These models, ever increasing in number, are arranged into a logical sequence and outer wrapper of modules. Supporting the models there are 500 things to think about and do called Concepts, Principles, Guidelines and Techniques (CPGTs).

Physicality

The BVMF® models are defined and made available to those trained and certified in BVMF® in PowerPoint. The Concepts, Principles, Guidelines and Techniques are documented in PowerPoint and Word and are also available to BVMSs (those trained and certified in BVMF®, known as Business Value Maximisation Specialists). BVMF® is ever expanding and improving. We train business analysts, project managers, product owners/managers, etc to become Business Value Maximisation Specialists (BVMSs) - a role industry has long found difficult to enact and a role that gives a whole different meaning to computer assisted business in respect of the net benefit (value) achievable.

BVMF® Components

Here below is a list of components of BVMF® we are compiling. In due course this will detail all significant BVMF® components. There are approximately 100 models, 500 Concepts, Principles, Guidelines and Techniques (CPGTs) and a significant and growing number of related, supporting artefacts.

One set of models present and clarify the problems and challenges at macro level and point the way to macro level addresses and solutions as well presaging a number of CPGTs to support the enactment of micro level redresses and solutions. The second set of models present solutions and redresses to the problems and challenges outlined by the first set of models.

Each model has a number of CPGTs associated. Each relationship however is not exclusive; so these associations are tend to be 'many to many'.

While this table is being populated we recommend using the FAQs page and the Home page's News feed's webinar recordings and slide packs to see more BVMF® models, modules and techniques (CPGTs). [Note: March 2026, this BVMF component listing is being replaced by the BVMF Index; please contact us for more information].