Budgeting/cost Control
74 Stories
Ten ways SMBs can cut costs in a slow economy
Insight Even if your small business is holding its own, there are steps you should take to keep costs under control. Here are 10 practical ways to lower expenses.
Tags: IT Management, Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Budgeting/cost control, Business, Security, Physical Security, Money, Small And Medium Business, Small Business
Five great things about being CEO in a tech recession
Insight Hard times are here, break out the champagne. After all, there is still genuine good that head honchos can take advantage of amidst the gloom.
Tags: Leadership, Business Strategies & Functions, Budgeting/cost control, Downturn, layoff, CEO, recession, job, revenue, Budgeting/cost control
If you're IBM (and maybe HP), ain't life grand?
Insight commentary A counter-intuitive start to tech earnings season and this much is clear: the companies with high-margin businesses will pass through the storm a lot easier.
Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Sales/revenue, Budgeting/cost control, Leadership, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Samuel J. Palmisano, Computer, Lou Gerstner, Hardware
Are your IT projects a house of cards?
Techguide Organizational cultures that prioritize business value over mechanical project execution, will prevent IT folks from spinning business benefits to get their project approved--and doomed for failure.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, Budgeting/cost control, Business Benefit, Card, appraisal, ROI, Michael Krigsman, Management Practice, Sommer
Hope for IT spending ahead
Insight perspective Just because we're in a recession doesn't mean all IT spending is on hold. Expect some innovative projects and financing over coming months, says consultant.
Tags: IT budgeting, Infrastructure/architecture management, Budgeting/cost control, Investments, Investment, IT-spending, Workforce, adjustment, financing, Tony Lock
Green IT isn't dead yet
Insight perspective The recession is dampening many areas of IT--but not environmental impact. An analyst looks at how cost-cutting and green go hand in hand.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, Budgeting/cost control, IT budgeting, Green IT, Organization, Hosting Company, Carbon Footprint, cost savings, Quocirca
Google cutting contractor workforce
News The search giant confirms "significant" cuts are coming for the company's 10,000 contractors--as its co-founder already said in October.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, Google Inc., Sergey Brin, Workforce, Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search Advertising, San Jose Mercury News, layoff, YouTube Inc., News.com
Firms overlook Web 2.0 cost-saving potential
News As companies largely view Web 2.0 on an experimental level, they are likely to pass on it during the current economic downturn, say analysts.
Tags: Web 2.0, Cost control, Budgeting/cost control, savings, Business, Ovum, cost savings, Web Service, blogging, savings
Online auctions slash procurement costs
News Britain's Office of Government Commerce turns to reverse e-auctions to save 35 percent on laptops and PCs.
Tags: E-commerce, Government, Budgeting/cost control, Supplier, Auction, Procurement, public sector, London, online auction, Silicon.com
Google: The cloud is cheaper
News In response to McKinsey report, search giant says companies should consider application stack in addition to hardware when weighing costs of cloud.
Tags: Cloud computing, Cost control, Budgeting/cost control, Software, Cloud, Virtualization, Google Inc., McKinsey & Co., Small And Medium Business, Cloud computing
Belt-tightening may affect security, warn experts
News At the RSA Conference Europe 2008, experts warned that cost-cutting may force some companies to implement tech that does not have "security maturity".
Tags: Security, Virtualization, Budgeting/cost control, Conference, VMware Inc., RFC, London, Cryptography Research, security adviser, VoIP
APAC firms look to 'affordable' security
News Businesses continue to commit to security spend but will go for more affordable integrated and managed security options in 2009, says Frost & Sullivan.
Tags: Network security, Security applications/tools, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Security, Security, Asia-Pacific, Small And Medium Business, Frost & Sullivan, network security
Schneier: Security neglected in economic gloom
News While it may seem logical to downgrade security, Bruce Schneier argues that security should be maintained or boosted, as systems become more business critical in a recession.
Tags: Security Management, Network security, Data security, PC security, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Security, British Telecommunications, IT Security, Information Security
Thai airport closures may leave AIS short of revenue goal
News Advanced Info Service will not reach its revenue growth target of 7 percent due to a deepening downturn in the final quarter as a result of the shutdown, says company's president.
Tags: Handhelds, Sales/revenue, Budgeting/cost control, Earning reports/forecasts, Politics, Mobile, Thailand, Cell Phone, Sales, handset sale
Enterprise guide to saving on wireless
News As mobility becomes increasingly entrenched in the corporate environment, businesses need to manage wireless service costs smartly and diligently, say analysts.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Communications, International Data Corp., wireless service, Wireless, Gartner Inc., phone, unified communications
