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IT Budget Reform

December 3, 2010
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Print PDF Guest post by Raf Burde and Niket Desai Nearly all companies do some kind of annual budget at both the business unit and corporate levels. While many find the process unsatisfying and frustrating, little has been done to challenge this outdated approach. One source of frustration comes from a long planning process that doesn’t match our rapidly evolving business environment. Today’s companies require heightened financial flexibility, visibility, and precision from both their business ...

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How to Analyze Non-Discretionary IT Budgets

October 28, 2010
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Print PDF Guest post by Kevin Caceres and Sean Sell When faced with cost pressures, our reaction is often to delay or scale-back projects or cut discretionary projects altogether.  To make matters worse, critical projects are not funded while the non-discretionary IT budget – often two to four times as much as the discretionary budget – continues to grow untouched. We’d like to share some thoughts on how to better understand and attack waste in ...

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Tackling Total Cost of Ownership

October 13, 2010
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Print PDF Guest post by Sean Sell Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis is intended to determine the lifetime costs of acquiring, operating, and changing something. It is primarily used to make apples to apples comparisons in large capital investments, and, if done properly, can bring out hidden costs of ownership. The term is regaining popularity largely because of the questions about cloud computing. TCO to Support Vendor Claims Although the concept has been around ...

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13 More IT Cost Cutting Ideas

July 27, 2010
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It’s always interesting to me which blog topics generate interest. Two weeks ago, I asked the #CIO Twitter community to offer their ideas for IT cost cutting and the summary was one of the more active posts lately, especially on LinkedIn groups like the Forbes CIO Network. I have summarized the comments below. Thanks to Robert Marchant, Jerry Rosenbaum, Puneet Dhawan, Reuben Thomas, Krishna Pulipati, Curtis Todd and Roger Jennings for their thoughtful comments…...

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Thoughts on IT Cost Cutting

July 19, 2010
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Print PDF During a recent business re-org, one of our long-time insurance clients took the opportunity to strengthen their enterprise IT function by centralizing it.  One of their first orders of business is to review the IT estate for opportunities to simplify.  Before I get into Diamond’s answer to this, I thought it would be interesting to see what others would do.  So, I asked the Twitter #CIO crowd for their top 3 ideas for ...

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