October 13, 2010
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 forever, TCO ...
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January 21, 2010
by Chris Curran and Jim Quick Portfolio management was all the rage 5-6 years ago, driven in part by some good management thinking from people like Peter Weill at MIT CISR and Dr. Howard Rubin and in part by some software tool vendors. Back then, most organizations added some kind of portfolio thinking or at least dabbled with it. While most of the interest seemed to be in the IT organization, some organizations actually drove ...
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