Simple ROI and TCO Models

Alinean is a developer of research, methodologies and software tools to measure and quantify the value and return on investment from Information Technology. Their IT ROI and Value analysis tools used for ROI Selling for IT Vendors, and to improve IT Governance for CIOs.
Businesscase.com offers a variety of easy-to-use tools that deliver clarity and understanding for day-to-day business decision making and creation of solid business cases. Aimed at novice users.
CIOview provides a portfolio of software models that allow IT professionals to determine their optimal IT infrastructure based on workload models.
Delphi Group (Perot Systems) offers a TCO modeling solution and ROI analysis.
Gartner Group is a provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry. Gartner offers consulting services to create ROI and TCO models.
The company develops Enterprise Decision Management software as a basis for IT cost/benefit analysis and portfolio management.
Primary Matters is a software development and management consulting company focused exclusively on understanding and improving all aspects of the impact of business initiatives on operations. They offer products and services that enable customers to understand the costs driving their current operations, to evaluate forward looking operational and technological initiatives, and to make sound business decisions.
Offers consulting and analysis services regarding Customer Value Delivery , Employee Value Delivery , and Product/Service Configuration.
Yankee Group is a provider of research and analysis on the global information technology industry. They offer custom and semi-custom TCO/ROI modeling and technology selection tools.

Research on Business Value

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Project on Industrial Technology and Productivity.
Papers on Information Technology and Business Value.
PROductivity From Information Technology (PROFIT) Initiative is based at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Its key objective is to study the use of information technology in both the private and public sectors to enhance productivity in many areas ranging from finance to transportation, and from manufacturing to telecommunications.
His research concerns the optimal use of information in investment decisions; business valuation issues; corporate governance; and recently intangible investments (intellectual capital).  In particular, the measurement, valuation and reporting issues concerning intangible investments. 

Economics of Information Security, Privacy, Digital Rights, and IP Protection

Compendium of academic research papers on the Economics of Privacy.
A very comprehensive resource web page, with emphasis on academic research papers, conferences, people, etc.
A comprehensive bibliography of academic papers.

A community website and mailing list for security practitioners — a portal, repository and sandbox in which practitioners can think creatively, collaborate, and research new ideas about security metrics. This community promotes a rational, empirical approach to information security management for decision-makers and security practitioners.

Stakeholder Value

AccountAbility (UK) is an international, not-for-profit, professional institute dedicated to the promotion of social, ethical and overall organizational accountability, a precondition for achieving sustainable development. AccountAbility is dedicated to promoting accountability for sustainable development by:

  • Creating a credible assurance standard and underlying accountability framework
  • Providing quality professional development and certification
  • Advocating an enabling public policy environment for organisational accountability
  • Developing innovative 'ideas-for-action' through research and practise

It is a democratic, multi-stakeholder membership organisation with an innovative and inclusive governance structure to ensure that it can operate effectively and respond to the needs and aspirations of its membership.

Other Interesting Links

Archwise offers tools and services to define business architecture. Business architecture provides the top-level context for all activities of the organization and the basis for planning and reporting.
Part of Carnegie Mellon University, CASOS brings together computer science, dynamic network analysis and the empirical study of complex socio-technical systems. Computational and social network techniques are combined to develop a better understanding of the fundamental principles of organizing, coordinating, managing and destabilizing systems of intelligent adaptive agents (human and artificial) engaged in real tasks at the team, organizational or social level. Whether the research involves the development of metrics, theories, computer simulations, toolkits, or new data analysis techniques advances in computer science are combined with a deep understanding of the underlying cognitive, social, political, business and policy issues.
The Center for Policy Modeling is part of Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. Agent-based modeling, memetics, and much more.
The Center for Social Complexity is part of George Mason University. It's mission is to advance the knowledge frontiers of pure and applied social science, by using and developing computational and interdisciplinary approaches that yield new insights into the fundamental nature of social phenomena at all levels of social complexity-from cognitive networks to the world system.
The Hollywood Stock Exchange® (HSX) is an integrated marketing, research and technology company driven by its patented entertainment stock market. HSX syndicates the data collected from the Exchange as market research to entertainment, consumer product and financial institutions and as original programming to radio, television and print media.
The Iowa Electronic Markets are real-money futures markets in which contract payoffs depend on economic and political events such as elections. These markets are operated by faculty at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business as part of our research and teaching mission.
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory provides an international forum for interdisciplinary research that combines computation, organizations and society. The goal is to advance the state of science in formal reasoning, analysis, and system building drawing on and encouraging advances in areas at the confluence of social networks, artificial intelligence, complexity, machine learning, sociology, business, political science, economics, and operations research.
Economics and Social Interactions Research Program: Cognition and economics continues to be a major research theme at SFI. Research on exploring empirical approaches for investigating the economic implications of social interactions is currently underway. Related to work on social intereactions is research on evolutionary game theory and population games. The goal is to understand the evolution of strategic interaction in populations of players with a variety of interaction technologies, including both global random matching and local interaction. Other areas of interest include the evolution of social norms, state and market formation, and market efficiency.