About BVMF®
What, Why and When
BVMF®: A Unified Framework for Optimal IT Value, Success, and ROI
BVMF® is uniquely different to other methods, approaches and frameworks.
Totalling around 100 models and 500 associated techniques, it defines the fundamental principles for gaining optimum value, success and ROI from business and organisational IT projects, work and transformations.
Many of the models and techniques are necessarily new although others naturally and essentially connect to what we already have.
BVMF® does not try to reinvent the wheel but is able to underpin, cohere and enhance what we already have, building value capability in a stridently effective way, and supercharging our ability to gain much more success, ROI and net benefit.
Bridging Business & IT Since 1981
In 1981, a young professional automated his company’s monthly sales and marketing statistics, earning early praise and sparking the idea for the Business Value Maximisation Framework (BVMF®).
Over the next two decades, David Jacobs honed his skills in bridging the business-IT gap, documenting methods to improve collaboration and outcomes amid widespread calls for better integration.
By the late 1990s, following his transition from analyst/programmer to business analyst, BVMF® had evolved into a well-defined approach focused solely on maximising value, success, and ROI.
For twenty years, David refined BVMF® through experience, research, and rigorous reasoning, presenting his ideas to industry bodies like the BCS, APM, NCC, and IIBA.
Since 2021, the commercialisation of BVMF® has accelerated, driven by the need to reverse decades of IT project failures, culminating in the “70+% Fail To 70+% Succeed!” initiative launched in 2024 at public sector events.
Why BVMF® Is Powerful and Different
David heard the persistent cry for business and IT to work together more productively and saw that the collateral for how to do this was just not there in any coherent and effective detail. No wonder the cry to ‘bridge the gap’ is still a phrase so sadly often used to this very day!
The power of BVMF® exhibits many unique selling points (USPs) even though we try not to ‘sell’ it but prefer to make you aware it exists and is available to help you bridge the proverbial gap, with a vengeance! As the cliched term bridging is a means to an end, BVMF® leads you to the end, i.e. more, much more success, value, ROI, organisational satisfaction and optimism about the use of IT in businesses and organisations.
This is NOT an exhaustive list of points of difference:
Relentless Focus on Business Value
BVMF® is relentlessly, in truth obsessively focused on maximising business outcome, value, success and ROI as its MAIN aim, i.e. does not work tangentially to this objective.
Integrates Diverse Disciplines
It coheres and underpins many disciplines that otherwise remain disparate such as business strategy, IT leadership, project management, business analysis, architecture, software design and deployment, organisational culture and policy, etc.
Inclusive for All Stakeholders
It has been fashioned to be fully inclusive of these groups of professionals, i.e. anybody and everybody involved in the computer-assisted transformation of business processes… it is the first comprehensive framework and approach that allows all involved to see and understand HOW value and success arise in this specific and specialised environment (IT has various specific characteristics which were not addressed by the other methods until BVMF did so).
Clear, Understandable Analogies
Professionals using BVMF® do not need to replace their existing methods and disciplines , they use BVMF® to cohere, underpin and enhance the whole endeavour towards maximum success, value and ROI – BVMF® does not try to reinvent the wheel where parts of that wheel are fairly satisfactory, it supplies the missing components (‘jigsaw pieces’) and refocuses the existing components so the whole value jigsaw works more coherently and productively. As you can see, to make things understandable to all, we deliberately use analogies as much as possible such as football, golf, motoring, cooking, etc. Business value is like a chain (another analogy!) or a layer cake; it cannot tolerate any weak or missing links. With BVMF® you can see which links are strong, which need strengthening and which are missing. Or, if you prefer the layer cake analogy, your cake (maybe for your wedding?) will be ultimately tasty, stable, tall, impressive and well worth its cost.
Detailed Value Blueprint
Going deeper, BVMF® lays out the business-IT value cake’s ingredients and recipe steps in a detailed way never before available… you will see layers you recognise from traditional/conventional business/IT folklore and some you do not recognise because they have been missing.
Enhances Existing Methods
BVMF® does not try to be a method for writing software or even running a project – it improves these and other related disciplines focusing them on value, success and ROI as the primary aim, not a tangential hope, the wing and a prayer journey we’ve had for the last 40 years.
Value-Centric Process Improvement
You can use any amount of BVMF® and it will provide significant even dramatic results, boosting the likelihood and predictability of success, value and ROI.
Flexible Usage Options
You can deploy BVMF® ad hoc or more systematically via the value maximisation capability assessments and maturity progressions which are provided.
Universal Clarity
BVMF® is deliberately understandable to all involved leading to the business, IT and other professionals working in a much more coherent way, with everybody working toward the same aim/goals using tools, models and techniques not previously available.
Scalable Impact
With its 100 models and 500 techniques, BVMF® helps you define the value (outcome) you desire, predict/forecast it, track it, boost it, and keep on repeating these steps so that results by far outperform past industry norms.
Macro-to-Micro Alignment
The unique macro to micro correspondence means that big picture aspirations and objectives are connected through a set of layers to the detail needed to ensure no value is lost along the way. The gap between business and IT is not only logically and credibly dissolved/bridged, but the process is laid out in a way that all can participate in, creating the kind of payback industry has been seeking for so long. Industry needs to wait no longer.