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Comment This debate might be fuelled by accountants looking for better accountability or by IT professionals frustrated by continued budget constraints in organisations that do not understand the cost of provisioning services to the business.
[21 Apr 2008]
Comment As the economy wobbles, the bean-counters instinctively reach for the IT budget. Perhaps we need a new name for the IT budget, because it's almost impossible to believe so many organisations can have such a dislocated view of the business and IT...
[18 Apr 2008]
Comment The average IT budget last year among CIO Agenda survey respondents was five per cent of company turnover, although that was skewed by one respondent whose tech budget is 24 per cent of company turnover.
[18 Apr 2008]
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]
Round-Up So another April Fool's Day has come and gone and once again Google has spent a fair amount of its annual marketing and engineering budget on a series of badly disguised japes. You're not always taken entirely seriously when you have wings, antlers...
[04 Apr 2008]
Comment Alastair Behenna, CIO at Harvey Nash, said "enhancing business performance with a declining budget" will be his main challenge for 2008. The state of the economy and its potential impact on IT budgets will be the key challenge for IT chiefs this...
[04 Apr 2008]
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]
Comment I think there should be budget available from the public purse as this affects all UK residents, not just businesses. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are...
[20 Mar 2008]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Comment However, my biggest issue is that given its appalling IT track record, I have no confidence this government can implement such a scheme on time and/or budget. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech...
[14 Feb 2008]
Comment At any one time parts of the organisation are budget-constrained and the obvious cutback is on renewing and refreshing the infrastructure. Multinationals have led the way in outsourcing their data centres to specialised third parties.
[04 Feb 2008]
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]
Comment Real-time management techniques were introduced to ensure the project was brought in under budget and before the deadline. Not so, says Steve Boyle. The latest thinking in information processing could save the banks billions every year.
[02 Jan 2008]
Comment Small is beautiful when it comes to making the IT budget sing, with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) being more efficient and innovative with their tech spend. Research from the Bathwick Group has found smaller companies are not only...
[18 Dec 2007]
Comment The percentage of costs that are going to be spent on providing power to IT equipment and taking heat away will rise to 70 per cent of budget by 2020. Julian David, IBM's vice president public sector business, has been with the company 26 years...
[05 Dec 2007]
Comment From cheap laptops to budget routers, China's low-cost products have helped bolster economic stability in the West. So, Martin Brampton asks, what's really fuelling the wave of criticism against the current workshop of the world?
[25 Oct 2007]
Comment The carbon budget is coming. 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 and views on the site.
[18 Oct 2007]
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