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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
- 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
- Get Clean, Stay Clean - Competitive Advantage through Data Quality
- The purported benefits of advanced IT investment are many. Systems promise to provide executives with comprehensive, timely, and accurate data to support better decision making. Whether the strategic goal is better customer targeting and servicing Customer Relationship Management, streamlined logistics Enterprise Resource Planning, or an integrated view of the enterprise...
- Tags: Data Quality, Information Technology, Competitive Advantage, IT Investment, Netrics, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- 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
- 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
- Proactive Services and Quick Response Help Service Firm Maximize Value of IT Investment
- Rapidly growing HDR relies heavily on Microsoft software to provide employees with access to business resources around the clock. For many years, HDR purchased telephone support incidents from Microsoft Services as needed. As HDR expanded globally, it needed more cost-effective and proactive support to ensure successful deployment of new technologies...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, Microsoft Corp.
- Case studies 2007-05-01
- Should CIOs Capitalize Or Expense IT Investments?
- CIOs frequently wonder whether to capitalize or expense an IT investment initiative. Often these decisions are made with insufficient financial analysis — it is not as simple as doing the math and making the call on a standalone basis for individual projects. The consequence of flawed decisions can get in...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, IT Investment, Forrester Research Inc.
- Research reports 2006-12-28
- 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
- 10 ways to effectively estimate and control project costs
- Building a better bottom line is just as important for an IT department as it is for the whole organization at the enterprise level. It involves an understanding of the main drivers of IT costs, aligning IT spending plans with overall business strategy, using financial resources efficiently, viewing IT expenditures...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, IT-spending, Strategy, Management
- Download resources 2006-05-31
- IT Investment Decision MakinG
- Getting to "yes" and avoiding "no" Getting to "yes" requires accessing and influencing key decision makers especially those in the finance department. And along the way, there are plenty of others who can say "no"
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance
- White papers 2006-01-11
- HSS's .NET COE: A Technology Centric Business
- Despite all the attention given to returns on IT investments, little progress has been made in linking all the elements of IT to what the business is trying to do. Managing IT investments, and demonstrating it's value to the businesses are more challenging than ever, and most businesses seem to...
- Tags: Microsoft .NET, Information Technology, IT Investment, Business, HSS, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-01-02
- 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
- IT Service Management Practice: Getting Your IT to Deliver Value
- Information Technology is today recognized as a critical enabler and key differentiator for business success. CEOs/CIOs/CTOs and senior management are concerned about optimizing their IT investments and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of IT resources to support business requirements. IT investments are key for Businesses to successfully deliver products and...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, IT Service Management, QAI, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-10-17
- Achieving Measurable Value: Optimizing the IT Investment and Demonstrating Value
- This paper explores using Kaplan and Norton's Balanced Scorecard methodology to first align an IT organization with the business it serves, then assist in driving continuous improvement and demonstrating the value delivered in a clear way. CIOs and other IT executives, faced with the challenge of increasing the focus of...
- Tags: Unisys Corp., Information Technology, IT Investment, Balanced Scorecard, Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management
- White papers 2005-10-01
- IT Value Mapping: A Quantitative Approach to Maximize Returns on IT Investments
- Why do some IT organizations create unprecedented shareholder value, while others earn the contempt of their business leaders? It is no secret that aligning IT with business improves IT ROI, what is often in doubt is how to make it happen. Can you say with certainty that your IT is...
- Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-03-25
- 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
