ITIL recommends implementing Service Portfolio Management as a way to actively manage IT investments, with transparency in its operations and spending. Selecting which and when projects should be executed is an important but complex task. It is all the more complex if one includes operational costs, which represent a significant component of the IT budget. We investigate techniques to provide d...

An investment model for the lifetime analysis of capital investments, for example instruments, in the clinical chemistry laboratory has been developed. All costs have been considered in relation to the actual time they were incurred. Based on the criterion of minimal costs for clinical chemistry tests, the economic lifetime of investments can be estimated. The model described can be an importan...

In this article, we present a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach for evaluation of information technology (IT) security investments. For this purpose, we model security scenarios by using defense trees, an extension of attack trees with countermeasures and we use economic quantitative indexes for computing the defender’s return on security investment and the attacker’s return on attack...

There have been many approaches towards investing in innovation projects. There has been very little discussion about the need to align such investments with the mission, vision, goals, leadership style, value discipline and risk appetite of an organization. This paper reviews existing approaches to innovation related investments and suggests the setting up of a proper innovation portfolio mana...

The study extends research on the impact of commodity futures investments on portfolio performance by incorporating levered futures directly into the optimization problem. Differences in portfolio performance between fully collateralized and levered futures arise primarily in the presence of investment constraints. The attractiveness of portfolios is also affected by differences in commodity in...

In this paper, we study the effect of information-technology (IT) investments on firms’ customer-satisfaction performance. Although much of the prior work on the business value of IT at the firm level focused on financial and accounting measures, this paper explores the effect of IT investments on more qualitative outputs, such as improved customization, product variety and customer convenience...

The article includes the results and conclusions from empirical researches that had been done. The research focuses on the impact of investments made in small and medium-sized enterprises financed from EU funds on the competitiveness of these companies. The researches includes financial results in sales revenue and net income, expenses, and many other new products/services on offer, higher qual...