IT budgets

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• IT Budgets: It's Time to Rethink Your Chargebacks

  By Albert Eng | 26 February, 2010 06:56

  Let's face it: Your department is a cost center without a revenue stream to offset your cost structure. Hence, you are totally reliant on the revenue-producing units within the company to pay your way.

• Inside ERP Budgets: Slicing, Dicing the Corporate Pie

  By Thomas Wailgum | 10 November, 2009 08:12

  Lately, much of the furor encircling ERP costs has revolved around software maintenance and support fees. The global recession has forced customers of Big ERP vendors-SAP, Oracle, Lawson, Infor-to question the value they receive from the fees.

• 6 things that should be in the CFO's budget -- not mine!

  By Darren Horrigan | 14 September, 2009 07:16

  CIOs are from Venus. CFOs are from Mars. And nowhere is this more obvious than at budget time.

• Tech vendors: ignore those dollar signs behind the curtain

  By Thomas Wailgum | 22 July, 2009 02:50

  As is the case with selling McMansions, Mercedes SUVs and 63-inch HDTVs, pushing expensive technology products and services during a global recession isn't an enviable task. Late last year, when the economic meltdown began and corporate IT budgets went under the CFO's knife, tech vendors had to hastily reevaluate their marketing messages and overhaul their sales tactics.

• CIOs need to get more from the assets they have

  By Tom Jowitt | 16 July, 2009 05:17

  Enterprises facing tight IT budgets should not be looking at cost-cutting but should focus on working their under-used enterprise applications harder.

• IT spending will fall by 6 per cent in 2009 say Gartner

  By Siobhan Chapman | 10 July, 2009 00:04

  Worldwide IT spending is expected to decline by a further six percent this year, according to analyst firm Gartner.

• What your IT budget says about your company's value

  By Albert R. Eng | 30 June, 2009 04:15

  Savvy business leaders will always support wise IT spending. Meanwhile, astute financial management of IT gives CIOs flexibility to respond quickly to corporate actions such as the sale of a business unit or an acquisition.

• CIOs should learn to deal with cash constraint: Gartner

  By Tim Lohman | 17 June, 2009 11:57

  Having a positive ROI may no longer be enough to get your next major ICT project over the line, according to Gartner.

• Survey: glimpses of stabilisation amid dark budget forecasts

  By Thomas Wailgum | 16 June, 2009 02:58

  No one has to remind CIOs just how bad the last 10 months have been: New data from our exclusive survey of top IT executives shows that CIOs may have hit rock bottom with their budgeting and cost-cutting measures.

• Six budget tips for surviving 2009

  By Mary Brandel | 05 January, 2009 09:25

  Early 2008, well before the financial meltdown in mid-September, CIO Michael Twohig met with the executive leadership at Clean Harbors Environmental Services, to discuss the company's 2009 budget. It was the first of many meetings intended to address what they saw as a troubling economy in the coming year, given conditions in the financial markets and general economic indicators.

• Sharing the Load

  By Dylan Bushell-Embling | 17 November, 2008 10:35

  Peter Weill, the director of MIT's Center for Information Systems Research, says there are six key IT decisions that CIOs and the business must collaborate on. Ignore them at your peril . . .