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Tackling Total Cost of Ownership

October 13, 2010
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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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A Resurgence of Portfolio Management?

January 21, 2010
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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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The Problem with Pay-Per-Service in Healthcare and IT

September 18, 2009

I caught part of a Charlie Rose interview with Jay Rockefeller this morning (episode not online yet) and heard the senator say that pay-per-service healthcare is a bad idea.  Being deeply immersed in the cloud computing discussion that hangs its hat on a similar payment model, I paid more attention than I might normally.  He said it’s bad because it encourages providers to add more services to make more money – regardless of their appropriateness. ...

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