BVMF® History

David Jacobs' letter to the IT industry, "It doesn't have to be this way", is published in Computing Magazine. Next wave of BVMF® courses are scheduled to train more Business Value Maximisation Specialists (BVMSs).

David and Howard (as BVMF Ltd) conduct a special invitation-only BVMF® course to train 24 Business Value Maximisation Specialists (BVMS), which is the new industry role that has been missing for years.

David presents a fourth time for IIBA UK taking a second ‘Closer Look’ at BVMF®’s Foundation models and techniques. David initiates the “70% Fail To 70% Succeed!” programme at several public sector live events. David forms a partnership with Howard Lock to commercialise BVMF®, aiming to roll out training programmes to the market/industry.

David presents a third time for the IIBA UK taking a ‘Closer Look’ at BVMF®’s Foundation models and techniques, records a podcast for CIOs and senior execs/managers and deploys a variety of online articles on BVMF® via Open Access Government (OAG) online.

David presents for a second time for the IIBA UK on his journey to roll out BVMF® by facing the ‘Elephant in the Room’, i.e. the huge amount of industry failure (75% of projects) and lack of a relentlessly value-focused ‘method’. The first ever BVMF® certified professional gains BVMS status.

David starts to train business IT professionals in BVMF® for them to become Business Value Maximisation Specialists (BVMSs).

David presents on ‘progressing from business analysis to business value maximisation using BVMF®’ to members of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) UK.

David is asked to fix the contention between a university’s Registry and its corporate IT dept around the specification of an electronic services system. He does this using BVMF®, to the relief of both parties and the benefit of students and staff at the university.

David refines BVMF®. He presents BVMF® to members of industry bodies including BCS PROMS-G, NCC, APM and the Post Office’s Business Analysis team. Various publications print articles by David on ‘maximising IT business value’ including Conspectus and Consultants’ Advisory.

Seeing the record of project failure in the 1990s, David Taylor, President of Certus, the IT Directors’ Association, calls out “We evidently need a whole new approach”. David (Jacobs) says that he's been working on such a new approach for more than a decade and contributes to Wiley’s book by Andrew Holmes entitled ‘Failsafe IS Project Delivery’.

David gives his first presentation Mediating between Business and IT to Gain Maximum Value - the first public airing of Business Value Maximisation Framework (BVMF®)

David joins the new Business-IT Bridging Group (BIT) under the auspices of the BCS and acts as a leading member.

David wins over a disgruntled telecomms billing manager who is disappointed with IT in general and who says his [value-focused] approach is a ‘breath of fresh air’. 

David writes article, “A New Friendship Between Business and IT,” for The FT IT Review which was not published due to being “too controversial” (it stated the truth on the number of projects failing and broadly how to fix the problem!).
Computing magazine publishes David’s letter on the importance of optimised business processes.

Corporate IT Strategy magazine publishes David’s first ever article on the betterment of IT project results.

David starts documenting ideas on “how to bridge the business-IT gap to get more value”.

David does some nifty programming in 4GL and SQL for a fast-growing insurance company.

David finds himself mediating between fractious business and IT departments to resolve conflicts. It works well.

David trains across from marketing information analysis and research into full time computer analysis and programming.

David writes his first ever commercial software for a construction company to receive high commendation for “really helping the business”.

Working in marketing information, analysis and research, David writes pioneering market forecasting software for the air cargo industry.

David gains a BSc Hons in Management Science at Warwick University, including options in Computing, Market Research, Economics and Quantitative Methods.

David Jacobs works with his father in advertising and marketing seeing how executives drive business strategies with numbers.