4 Easy Budget Cuts Every IT Manager Can Find

The first article in this series, Understanding the ROI of Value Creation, is about safeguarding IT budgets shared an approach to protecting IT budgets by reallocating non-value creating IT spend to efforts creating tangible business value. The second article, How to Recapture IT Spending, then explored ways to recapture non-value IT spending as a means…

How to Recapture IT Spending

The first article in this series about safeguarding IT budgets shared an approach to protecting IT budgets by reallocating non-value creating IT spend to efforts creating tangible business value. While that approach can protect or even expand IT budgets, it may not be enough. A second approach — recapturing non-value creating IT spend — can…

Understanding the ROI of Value Creation

Despite the apparent economic recovery, many companies continue to focus on cost-reduction and, in the process, persist in demanding reduction of already-stressed IT budgets. In this environment, creative approaches are required to ensure availability of funding for critical IT services and initiatives. One way IT executives can safeguard their IT budgets and preserve funding for…

3 Reasons to Get IT out of the IT Dept.

A fellow professional recently shared this conversation with me: “Recently, an HR director I work with stopped me in the hallway and asked, ‘Have you had to get new shoes since you started with [our company]?’ I first thought this guy was giving me grief that my shoes needed to be shined or that he…