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  • 5 Ways to make costs cuts stick

    Short-term cuts are easy; but making them stick is more difficult. Sales, general and administrative (often grouped as ‘SGA’) prove to be particularly intransigent. While manufacturing efficiencies have improved in recent years, SGA has remained more or less at same levels.

    Written by Morris Kaplan • 21 March 11 16:54
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    Cloud computing - the next industrial revolution

    The term ‘Cloud computing’ continues to receive a lot of attention from the media and within the IT industry there is perpetual debate on definitions and from vendors a relentless succession of press releases on their latest cloud offerings.

    Written by Scott Stewart • 25 Oct. 10 12:34

  • Wealth management: Deceptively simple

    The ANZ recently announced its intention to ramp up its drive into the wealth management sector and HSBC Australia plans to expand into the ‘mass affluent’ market. Both announcements reflect the need felt by all the Australian banks to find new ways of increasing shareholder value in a crowd

    Written by Peter Dugdale • 10 Aug. 10 16:38

  • Avoiding the TCO Trap

    Great contributions to civilization inevitably bring great capacity for misuse. The highly popular management concept of TCO, or total cost of ownership, is no exception. TCO is a good way to measure systems costs - but not overall business value. Unfortunately, too many shops willingly allow TCO to substitute for a solid business value analysis as input into IT investment prioritization decisions. Any chance your shop is unintentionally throwing these decision-making curveballs? Let's take a closer look at the real nature of TCO and the role it should play in IT selection decisions.

    Written by Jack Keen • 07 April 04 14:07

  • Credit Where Credit Is Due

    Every $1 invested in computers yields between $5 and $17 in stock market value. Whereas, $1 invested in property, plant and equipment (book value) only yields $1 in stock market value. And $1 investment in other assets (inventory, liquid assets and accounts receivables) yields only 70 cents. So say a distinguished group of researchers - Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT Sloan School of Management), Lorin Hitt (University of Pennsylvania Wharton School) and Shinkyu Yang (New York University Stern School). They set out to see whether a company's stock market valuation correlated with the size of its computer investments and its organisational practices. It does!

    Written by Dr Marianne Broadbent • 11 Nov. 02 10:25

  • Lessons in Shareholder Value

    CIOS AND CFOS may not always see eye-to-eye, but one topic is dear to the hearts of both, and that's value.

    Written by Raghavan Rajaji • 05 Aug. 02 09:35

  • How to Get Your Budget Approved

    CFOs look for certain things in a good IT budget. Here's what yours should - and shouldn't - include.

    Written by Raghavan Rajaji • 08 April 02 09:15
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