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IT budgeting 101: Best practices for strategic IT investment
IT spending should be a strategic tool for improving the business, but a lot of IT departments fall into the common trap of being reactionary with their IT spending. I recently did a Webcast called Achieving Business Objectives through Strategic IT Investment where I had a broad discussion with Josh...
Tags: Budgeting, Information Technology, IT Investment, Best Practice, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
Blog posts 2008-04-15
New study says that offshoring is freeing up more money for new IT investments
Info-Tech Research Group has released the results of its study on U.S. IT spending. The Canadian researchers expects that IT departments will increase spending from $840 billion in 2006 to $884 billion in 2007, a rise of 5.24%. By 2010, Info-Tech expects spending to reach $1.033 trillion.Key pointsA few key...
Tags: IT strategy, It Management, IT leadership, It Jobs, Info-Tech Research
Blog posts 2007-06-06
New study says that offshoring is freeing up money for new IT investments
Is offshoring helping U.S. IT departments by freeing up money for new tech?That's what a new study from Info-Tech Research says, as I blogged about:http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=498How does this affect your opinion of offshoring? Have you seen any real world examples of this happening?Snake eating its tailI live the need for higher...
Tags: Outsourcing, Jason Hiner, information technology, IT investment, offshoring, offshore
Discussion threads 2007-06-06
Is there a benchmark for IT investment cost?
Is there a benchmark for IT investment cost?I am an IT consultant and my current project is with an insurance company. I am proposing a new project to automate the operations of the company. The company's gross revenue last year was around US$10million. Based on the last 3 years, it's...
Tags: gross revenue, information technology, IT investment, it management, lion0423, revenue
Discussion threads 2004-10-05
Download: Resource pack for financial management of IT
TechRepublic contributor Peter Hennigan has provided five recent articles offering advice on everything from leasing to IT investments. We’ve gathered those articles into one convenient download and included valuable resources, such as spreadsheets and checklists, to help you put Hennigan’s advice to use immediately.Download the compilation, and you’ll have the...
Tags: Beth Blakely, financial, financial management, information technology, IT investment, Peter Hennigan
Technical articles 2003-01-31
Portfolio management keeps IT aligned with business strategy
Keeping IT synchronized with the corporate business strategy can be much easier if CIOs apply the principles of financial portfolio management to IT investments. Financial expert Peter Hennigan explains how this method can work for your organization.There’s a great deal of talk these days about how CIOs need to align...
Tags: Strategy, Peter Hennigan, IT investment, information technology, IT Organizations, asset class
Technical articles 2002-11-25
When it comes to IT investment, CIOs need to take the helm
Making sure every IT investment is adequately analyzed is no easy task, especially given the closer scrutiny IT budgets get today. Learn how CIOs need to take charge to accomplish major objectives.You can’t pick up an industry publication these days without reading that everyone from the CFO to the software...
Tags: Strategy, Peter Hennigan, information technology, IT investment, investment
Technical articles 2002-09-20
Is that IT investment paying off? Check the TCO
Calculating the cost of intangibles like employee training can be an exercise in guesswork. Accounting expert Jack Fox offers these tips to make calculating total cost of ownership a little less onerous.Calculating value for non-material resources can be an exercise in frustration. For example, how does a CIO calculate the...
Tags: ROI/TCO, Jack Fox, IT investment, TCO, training, information technology
Technical articles 2000-01-07
IT Investment Strategy
The 90's saw a period of unprecedented creativity and investment in IT, launched by the emergence of the Internet as a widespread mass communication medium; the World Wide Web as a means of linking textual "pages"; the search engine; the rapid reduction in prices of computer workstations; and the adoption...
Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, University At Buffalo, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management
White papers 2005-12-12
Achieving Business Objectives through Strategic IT Investment
Gone are the days when IT spending was simply another line in the budget, like telephones, maintenance, or transportation. Today, IT spending is increasingly recognized as an investment that will enable the business to continue growing well into the future. But like all good investments, reliable information is essential....
Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, IT-spending, Strategy, Investment, Management, Finance
Webcasts 2008-03-31
UK Local Authorities Drive National CRM Programme With an IT Investment of Just £7,000
The National CRM Programme is an e-government initiative helping local authorities across the UK deliver better service to citizens. The London Borough of Tower Hamlets hosts the service, and with the help of Microsoft Gold Partner Silversands, implemented a collaboration tool based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. From here, comprehensive...
Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, Authority, Microsoft Corp., CRM, National CRM Programme, E-government, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Strategy, Government, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
Case studies
Effective IT Portfolio and Investment Planning: Getting the Most Out of Your IT Investments
For most IT executives, the annual dance of creating next year's IT investment plans has become increasingly complex. The plan must be sound enough to communicate how IT will help the business meet its goals, while remaining agile enough to adjust to an ever-changing competitive landscape. IT executives need to...
Tags: Information Technology, Investment, IT Investment, Strategy, Management
White papers 2006-10-01
Consulting Services Help Building Services Provider Maximize IT Investment
CPG Corporation CPG is a Singapore-based infrastructure, building development and management services provider with clients throughout Asia Pacific. The company needed rapid and effective IT deployment, best new technology utilization, proactive support, and guidance on IT issues. CPG also wanted to maximize business value from its IT investments to drive...
Tags: Consulting Service, Information Technology, IT Investment, Microsoft Corp., Consulting, Strategy, Management
Case studies 2007-12-01
Media Leader Increases Speed, Quality of Published Stories With Focused IT Investment
Swiss media giant Ringier wanted to transform its work environment to heighten journalist productivity to gain an edge in a competitive industry. The 7,000-employee company envisioned an "Integrated newsroom" in which its journalists around the world had technology tools to support collaboration and advanced communications. With help from partners Peaches...
Tags: Journalist, Information Technology, Media, IT Investment, Leader, Microsoft Corp., Ringier, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Office Suites
Case studies 2008-08-25
Consultants Help Business Maximise IT Investments, Meet Demands for Five Years
1st - The Exchange is a business unit of the United Kingdom-based outsourcing services provider Vertex. 1st - The Exchange wanted to enhance its financial services application for its Exweb portal and also establish a reliable development environment to fulfil future customer demands. It increased its Microsoft Development Consulting service...
Tags: Consultant, Information Technology, IT Investment, Microsoft Corp., Portals, Strategy, Internet, Management
Case studies 2008-10-01
Plastics Manufacturer Protects IT Investments, Boosts Efficiency With E-Learning
King Plastic is a leading manufacturer of polymer sheets, slabs, and massive shapes used in applications ranging from marine craft to food service products. Seeking to centralize accounting and financial reporting, streamline its manufacturing operations, and improve customer service, King Plastic worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Tribridge to implement...
Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Information Technology, IT Investment, Microsoft Corp., Plastics, King Plastic, E-learning, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software
Case studies 2008-11-05
How Software-as-a-Service enables companies to receive the benefits of BI without additional IT investment
This interview between Steve Lucas, Vice President of On Demand Software and Services for Business Objects, and Ron Powell, Co-Founder of the B-EYE Network, explains how Software-as-a-Service enables companies to receive the benefits of a complete BI platform without additional investments in their IT infrastructure.
Tags: Software-as-a-service, Information Technology, IT Investment, Benefit, Business Objects, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Managed Hosting, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Databases, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
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King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center Optimizes IT Investment and Leverages Best Practices
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center wanted to elevate IT operations and standards to best-practice levels and ensure enterprise-wide visibility and insight into daily operations, including critical medical supply inventory levels. The challenge was to ensure stability and scalability of the center's Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system in both...
Tags: Hospital, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, IT Investment, Medical Supply, Best Practice
Case studies 2008-07-01
Protect Your IT Investment With KVM IP Management
The numerous benefits of remote KVM IP access and management have made them the new must have technologies for IT managers. With KVM IP companies can reduce downtime, slash travel expenses; lower cooling costs and restrict server room access which increases security. Unfortunately many remote access and management solutions are...
Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, Small And Medium Business, Minicom Advanced Systems, Smb/Sme, Remote Access
White papers 2009-02-19
HP connects IT investment, value, and transparency
HP's primary strategic message about the future direction of project portfolio management PPM involves helping IT departments improve their ability to quantify project costs, benefits, and derived value. Michael Krigsman thinks the strategy is sound, but it's no silver bullet. by Michael Krigsman
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, IT Investment, Michael Krigsman, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
Blog posts 2009-06-22


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