Presentation
Introducing MaxVal and BVMF®
We've developed a presentation to introduce our consultancy, advisory and mentoring services along with key concepts and principles of our Business Value Maximisation Framework (BVMF®).
To arrange for a free presentation and discussion of your interests please contact us. Our sister training company BVMF Ltd runs BVMF Prelim and Q&A online sessions on Zoom most Thursdays from 6pm; contact us for more information.
By the end of 2026, we aim to offer a free multi-criteria IT Business Value Capability Assessment (ITBVCA)™ using the unique IT Effectiveness Spectrum™ measurement mechanism that David has developed that we are currently updating and refining for wider use.
David Jacobs presenting ‘Delivering Maximum Business Value from IS Projects’ for the British Computer Society’s Project Management Group (BCS PROMS-G) in the early days of BVMF's development. This presentation introduced David's Business Value Maximisation Framework (BVMF®).
Presentation Review
Delivering Maximum Business Value from IS Projects
- University College London, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT
- Joint meeting of BCS North London Branch and BCS Project Management Specialist Group
- Event review by Dalim Basu, Chairman, BCS North London Branch
As an IS project manager, everybody tells you that you need to align business and IT, but nobody tells you how. Organisations expend a vast amount of time, effort and money on information systems and yet achieve disappointingly modest levels of business value, or net benefits. Business people wonder why information systems so often fail to address business objectives. IT people wonder why business people keep changing their requirements, or do not know what they want in the first place.
Will any amount of IT be able to help?
David Jacobs, director of Maximum Value Limited, now MaxVal Consultancy, was the presenter at the event.
“When people try to put business and technology together, they may find there's no filling in the sandwich,” explained David.
To fill the gap, he introduced some concepts from his Business Value Maximisation Framework (BVMF®) to the improvement of information systems business value, or net benefits.
David felt that an appreciation of the way that business uses and processes information goes a long way towards bridging the gap in terms of generating value.
David defined Information System Business Value, or ISBV, as the degree to which an information system helps a business to achieve its objectives.
He described IT effectiveness as “the degree to which a physical IT system supports the ISBV”.
To improve business value, net benefits and ROI, David advised considering ways to:
- Formulate a way of working that may use information systems at strategic points, where beneficial
- Generate business value rather than purely deploying software
- Improve organisational understanding of the use of information