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26 IT funding & investment Resources
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How to make IT allocations work
cio.com— — “Every year, clients complain that IT costs too much. They claim that their share of the allocations is unfair and that they’re subsidizing other business units.”
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10 Ways to Cut IT Operational Costs
businessinnovation.cmp.com— — “Many organizations are still looking to reduce operational expenses while increaing overall efficiency. Here are 10 ways that you may be able to cut IT operations costs in your organization.”
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The Economics of IT
businessinnovation.cmp.com— — “With much at stake in major technology deployments, CIOs and finance executives must work together closely.”
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Managing the Realization of Business Benefits from IT Investments
misqe.org— — “With their information technology (IT) investments, most organizations focus on implementing the technology rather than on realizing the expected business benefits.”
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Critical Capabilities for Offshore Outsourcing of Information Systems
misqe.org— — “Eager to capitalize on the low-cost, high-quality IS labor markets overseas, many companies are moving their IS work offshore, but often with disappointing results.”
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Are You Ready for the Coming Era of Rational Exuberance?
cio.com— — “Economic indicators, CEO confidence, global competition, aging infrastructures and increases in IT spending levels all point to an era of rational exuberance for IT investment.”
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Seven Myths About Outsourcing
“In recent years, there’s been a seemingly endless boom in offshore outsourcing. But companies that think handing off an operation to an overseas provider is easy can get a rude awakening.”
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Qualcomm CIO: Norm Fjeldheim
video.zdnet.com— — “In a CIO sessions interview, Norm Fjeldheim, Chief Information Officer of Qualcomm talks about his “do or die” approach to supporting new technologies within his organization and funding new ideas by rolling back cost savings into IT.”
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Keeping IT in-house
video.zdnet.com— — “Vanguard CIO Paul Heller talks about how his company outsources very little and builds most of its own applications.”
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McCue interview: Norwich Union CIO Alex Robinson
comment.silicon.com— — “Norwich Union Bets Half Its IT on India. As part of the British Insurance company’s plan to cut about $500 in costs, 40-50% of it IT work will be offshore by year end.”
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IT and the new metrics: Measuring business technology performance
canadianbusiness.com— — A growing cultural divide between IT and business unit leaders is having a significant effect on how technology investments are measured. The gap has its roots in issues of communication and metrics.
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IT value metrics: How to communicate ROI to the business
cio.com— — “For many CIOs, the budget story has not been a happy one these last several years. The economic downturn that followed the dotcom meltdown, 9/11 and the high-profile accounting scandals that led to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act…”
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The Elusive Paper Chase
cio.com— — “CIO Publisher Gary Beach talks with Kevin Pickhardt, CEO of Pharos, about a major hidden cost of IT.”
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IT/Finance Alignment: A Boon for Strategy, but Will the Trend Continue?
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu— — “In today’s market, where intense competition drives companies to reduce their business cycles and react faster, the interaction between Information Technology and Finance continues to gain importance, says David Wessels, an adjunct professor of finance at Wharton.”
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Outsourcing: Beyond Bangalore
businessweek.com— — “After 10 months of working with software developers in Bangalore, India, Bill Wood was ready to call it quits.”
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Where the Workers Are?
businessweek.com— — “Today, most offshore IT outsourcing is done in India, but the field of prospective players from different nations is widening as companies look for new sources of low-cost labor.”
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IT Controls Benchmark Survey Results
itworld.com— — The purpose of the survey was to demonstrate how IT organizations can begin to move from good to great in handling IT control issues.
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Millennium Hotels CIO: Eli Salant
video.zdnet.com— — “Do your homework. Invariably, the people who make IT decisions are accountants”
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“Moore’s Law” of health care
video.zdnet.com— — “Harvard Medical School CIO John Halamka talks about how new technology has improved patient care and reduced medication error — without increasing costs.”
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The End of Corporate Computing
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“Information technology is undergoing an inexorable shift from being an asset that companies own - in the form of computers, software and myriad related components -to being a service that they purchase from utility providers.”