It Budgeting
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A touch of healthcare and technology
Insight Dr. Colin Quek, CIO of Raffles Medical Group, discusses why the social component of healthcare can make IT spending more complex in this industry.
Tags: IT budgeting, Project management, IT budgeting, Project management
2010: Software spend up, IT budgets down
News Software budgets in the Asia-Pacific region in 2010 will grow 4.4 percent over last year, while overall IT expenditure will dip by 3 percent, new Gartner study shows.
Tags: IT budgeting, Business applications, IT Budget, India, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Australia, Gartner Inc., Malaysia
Small firms in emerging markets up IT spend
News Fewer small businesses in markets such as China and India are feeling pinch from downturn, with 17 percent indicating budget increases, new research shows.
Tags: IT budgeting, Personal Computers, Servers, Business, IT Budget, Small Business, business productivity, Server, Emerging Market, Germany
Create a risk contingency budget with Expected Monetary Value
Techguide Learn how the Expected Monetary Value technique provides a formula for determining the right amount of budget to apply to the risk contingency budget.
Tags: Risk Management, IT budgeting, IT project management, Project management, C, Impact, Contingency, Risk Management, Project, Risk
10 ways IT departments waste money
Techguide IT is often a popular target for corporate cost-cutting. So the more you can identify and control unnecessary spending, the better you’ll be able to fend off the budget axe.
Tags: Cost control, IT budgeting, Employee, Money, Training, Server, Hardware, job, consultant, Benefit
Seven (nasty) truths about IT spending
Techguide An article discusses harsh realities associated with out-of-control IT costs. While cost containment is integral to reducing failed IT projects, Draconian inflexibility is not the way to go.
Tags: IT project management, Cost control, IT budgeting, IT-spending, help desk, Harvard Business Review, Michael Krigsman, CIO, CEO, project failure
Going big on budget
News roundup Big On Budget series looks at different aspects of IT infrastructure, offering insights on how companies can better manage budget and lower cost.
Tags: Cost control, Budgeting/cost control, IT budgeting, e-mail, Cost control, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, IT infrastructure, ZDNet Asia
Revealed: CIOs' biggest challenges this year
News In 2009, CIOs are challenged to do more with less and proving how vital the IT department is to businesses, new study shows.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IT budgeting, Cost control, ITIL, IT Budget, Survey, Steve Ranger, business skill, CIO, Silicon.com
Is the economy changing how you manage server turnover?
Techguide Server pricing has plummeted in recent years, but hard evidence still shows sales have declined. To what extent has the current economic climate affected server turnover?
Tags: Servers, IT budgeting, Virtualization, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), International Data Corp., Sales, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Server, e-mail, software-as-a-service
China biz software sector to be Asia's largest
News Country's enterprise software market is projected to expand at annual growth rate of 18 percent to reach US$9.4 billion in 2012, new study reports.
Tags: Business applications, IT budgeting, Security, SCM, China, software-as-a-service, supply chain, enterprise software, software project, IT budgeting
India's schools to enjoy IT spending boost
News Educational institutes are set to double spending on IT from this year to 2012, particularly on new software and infrastructure purchases.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, IT budgeting, IBM Corp., India, IT-spending, ERP, network, leader, network infrastructure, IT budgeting
Gartner: IT budgets squeezed further
News Almost half of CIOs surveyed by the research firm said they spent less on IT in the first quarter than they had initially planned.
Tags: IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control, Chief Information Officer, IT Budget, IT-spending, Survey, Gartner Inc., industry, IT budgeting, Budgeting/cost control
How to recession-proof IT
Techguide In the current economic environment, IT is well positioned to make a compelling case for strategic spending that can help weather the storm.
Tags: Strategy, Cost control, IT budgeting, Asset/resource/knowledge management, CFO, Fortune 500, Patrick Gray, Prevoyance Group, CIO, recession
MIT: CIOs should focus on fewer items
News Chief information officers need to learn to cut costs and streamline IT operations so they can better present a "rock solid" business case to management.
Tags: IT project management, IT budgeting, Microsoft Corp., Asia, IT Budget, IT Services, Project, Singapore, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, auditing
Gartner: 'Speak the CFO's language'
News With the economic situation forcing IT budgets to get cut, an IBM finance director and Gartner analyst offer tips to CIOs on how to get projects approved.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, IT budgeting, IBM Corp., CFO, Project, IT-spending, Gartner Inc., CIO, analyst, finance
