When the Pressure Mounts.
When the Pressure Mounts. A senior CIO shares a simple four-question framework to evaluate IT investments under pressure, helping leaders make sharper, high-stakes decisions. A Simple Framework to Evaluate IT Investments Under pressure, most IT investment decisions deteriorate. Urgency replaces clarity. Noise replaces judgment. Leaders approve projects they would normally challenge, or delay decisions that demand speed. After three decades in global boardrooms, I have seen one pattern repeat: the problem is not the investment. It is the way it is evaluated. This article lays out a simple framework built for pressure situations. It strips away complexity and forces decisions back to first principles. It also challenges a widely held belief that speed and scale should dominate investment thinking. If you are making high-stakes technology decisions with incomplete information, this is the discipline that protects both capital and credibility. The Real Problem Is Not the Technology In...