budget it about how
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08
Round-Up HP UK's managing director Stephen Gill has claimed that many large organisations are currently devoting around 70 to 75 per cent of their IT budget to managing their existing infrastructure, leaving little room for the innovation that can bring... [11 Apr 2008]
The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel
Comment It's a big job - the company has a tech budget of around $300m and 900 full-time IT staff supporting 35,000 employees worldwide. All of this feeds back into the goal to reduce the operational expenditure to capital expenditure ratio of the IT... [01 Apr 2008]
Tips For Cost-Effective Customer Retention Management
White Paper How can you use CRM to improve your customer retention without breaking your budget? Making customers happy is the key to any successful business endeavor. Knowing how to give your customers what they need--when they need it--is another problem... [31 Mar 2008]
Mobile working goes mainstream
News The majority of businesses are planning to maintain their mobility budget at 2007's level or increase it by between five and 10 per cent, Gartner's survey of medium to large European enterprises found. [25 Mar 2008]
PA spreads the news on open source
Case Study Using the Nuxeo technology also provides costs savings as PA doesn't pay a licence fee but uses its budget to develop the platform to suit its needs. Press Association (PA) is moving to an open source platform for its editorial content management... [20 Mar 2008]
Outsourcing - life after the contract
Comment Blowing the budget, delays and terminations are rife. The fanfare of a new outsourcing contract may have died down long ago. But the work is not all done just because the ink has dried on the paper, argues Paul Bentham. [12 Mar 2008]
The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe
Comment If my business really wants to handle the fears of recession the best way to do it is to increase IT's operational budget by 100 per cent. He is already under-resourced, so what should he do? Over my morning coffee I review the latest satisfaction... [03 Mar 2008]
Recession-proof your IT, CIOs warned
News The first budget would assume a continuation of the status quo, while a second would act as a back-up in case of a business slowdown. Businesses need to take action to cut tech costs before a recession takes hold in the US and other major economies. [26 Feb 2008]
Editor's Blog: ID cards - cock-up and conspiracy...
Comment Perhaps the most unlikely element so far is the idea of the government finishing such a major project without it running a fair few billion over budget and a couple of years late - or just getting scrapped. [20 Feb 2008]
Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks
Comment It's very conceivable that if you have your own business unit budget, you can start deploying projects bypassing your IT department completely by deploying them to the cloud. Experts are forecasting an important role in the enterprise for new media... [19 Feb 2008]
Defra IT - blowing budgets and showing up late
News Major IT projects at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) are millions over budget and years late, it has been revealed. It is supposed to help cut the amount of red tape affecting the industry, and Defra claims it will... [07 Feb 2008]
Suffolk Councils join up IT to save costs
Case Study In terms of budget, Suffolk County is about £1bn per year and Mid Suffolk is around £10m per year. Suffolk County Council and Mid Suffolk District Council have merged IT departments in a wider initiative to share back-end business processes.silicon... [05 Feb 2008]
Gov't IT spending to face scrutiny
News The spokesman said the review has not been triggered by the government's lamentable track record on delivering IT systems on budget and on time - such as the £70m overspend for the national fire control centre system or the National Offender... [01 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax man's stamp bill, more lost data, unencrypted laptops…
Comment I trust that this is being absorbed by savings elsewhere in HMRC's operating budget! What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news... [24 Jan 2008]
Operational IT budgets to be squeezed in 2008
News The downward pressure on operational IT costs will continue in 2008 but those savings could free up budget for increased levels of capital expenditure. Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director for publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK, said: "Op-ex budget... [17 Dec 2007]
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