budget it about how
Mitnick on Mitnick: Why I'm going legit
News We've looked at competitors in the market and the amount of dollars that companies budget for security and awareness training, and we expect it to be successful venture. My book is designed to raise awareness by showing them how it's done, so they... [08 Oct 2002]
"Ditch Microsoft," urge top politicos
News In a letter to the Office of Management and Budget, the US government department responsible for budget proposals, Nader said the government could diminish Microsoft's power with a simple change in purchasing strategy - something the... [05 Jun 2002]
World Cup websites of the week: Fantasy football
News Pick 11 players with a budget of millions. The registration process is a little long-winded but it's all forgiven in return for the game - which is far and away the pick of the three.if you are prepared to pay £5 - a fact not made clear until you... [29 May 2002]
Search and destroy: Why the BBC is no better than Microsoft
Comment A successful launch will ensure a bigger budget for BBCi next year. Since the launch of BBCi's much-publicised 'unbiased' search engine almost all the talk has been about the fairness of its results - how come BBC Search keeps returning BBC URLs... [23 May 2002]
Let's play spot the CIO
Comment If you care more about your department's budget year-to-year than the overall health of your company, then there's trouble ahead. CFOs are always on the look out for budget cuts - but board members almost see it as a matter of pride that their... [21 May 2002]
Ebusiness Despatches: The death of the tech CEO
Comment Allow me one small anecdote, back on the subject of one of my favourite types of end user organisation, the budget airline. How many IT directors can really justify their technology spending? And how about those tech CEOs? [15 May 2002]
Managing laptops - what every IT department should know
Comment Colin Darch, IT director at building group Balfour Beatty, speaks for a number of bosses when he says there is only one reason his laptop budget is rising - his company is buying more of them to keep up with demand. [22 Apr 2002]
Browser Wars II? It's much more important than that
Comment Like all sequels, it will have a bigger budget, feature more explosions and be a bit predictable. AOL may be about to dump Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and use the Netscape web browser when it releases AOL 7.0 later this year. [17 Apr 2002]
Ebusiness Despatches: Confusing CRM with great customer service
Comment My £540 must be justified, and it was, but for those paying £250 - still almost five times as much as the budget equivalent - the cost wasn't justified. For a budget airline -a Go! the budget airline formerly part of BA. [10 Apr 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Does our government want us to burst a blood vessel?
Comment Last week, I was wondering how to spend the government's multi-billion pound IT budget. We've heard plenty of stories about call centre rage so maybe columnist Martin Brampton is right to this week question the government's interpretation of CRM. [09 Apr 2002]
Devil's Advocate: "If I ruled the world..."
Comment The biggest single IT budget in the land is yours to spend. That gives us a budget of about £25bn, or a good £100m every working day. First of all, what sort of budget do we have to play with? Even with that tempting budget of £100bn a day, the job... [02 Apr 2002]
Mention business continuity and everyone yawns...
Comment Any spend devoted to it comes out of the IT budget. But how can it be anything but a hugely important part of a company's strategy? It never has been and - despite the hype, the hacks, the viruses and certain terrorist-led disasters proving the... [12 Mar 2002]
What if... the sales and marketing director was put in charge of IT?
Comment They are always complaining they don't have enough budget, so let's give them that big juicy IT budget and see how they get on. Let me state it one more time: a sales and marketing director with full authority over the IT department and its budget! [06 Mar 2002]
Is Oracle 11i online a winner?
Comment This is how it works: a customer hands over its IT budget to Oracle, specifies its IT requirements, signs a five year contract and then lets the vendor take care of the rest. Oracle's online offering has been available in the US for two years now... [28 Jan 2002]
First impressions of Microsoft's Tablet PC vision - part 2
News Other areas where Microsoft believes it will find a market for the Tablet include construction and education, though the latter is again subject to tight budget controls. However, phrases like 'It costs how much? [25 Jan 2002]
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