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Leader: A helpful push towards efficiency
Leader There has been much grumbling and rolling of eyes from people in local authorities tasked with squeezing more cost out of their systems as a result of the government's efficiency targets. It is very easy to put off change - perhaps the government's... [07 Sep 2005]
Meta Group Quarterly: From 'efficiency' to 'value'
Comment Leading CIOs in large organisations have shifted senior management's perception of IT from a cost centre focused on increasing organisational efficiency to a value provider focused on winning competitive advantage for the organisation. [02 Jul 2003]
Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities
Comment Tech budgets will remain flat or fall in 2008 for most organisations as they focus on cost cutting and efficiency initiatives, according to silicon.com's exclusive CIO Agenda 2008 survey. The main business priorities driving IT spend in 2008 are... [18 Apr 2008]
Outsourcing: What every company should know - before picking up that phone
Comment Greater efficiency, cutting edge technology, motivated IT staff, guaranteed quality of service - outsourcing can mean all this. Operational efficiency Unlike their clients, operating efficiency is their core business so they will expect to replace... [22 Apr 2003]
Virtualisation cuts carbon and servers
Comment Computing may drive efficiency but the data centres that run business are often far from efficient. This has been assessed, at current typical utilisation and efficiency levels, to produce 5,540 tonnes of CO2 per annum at a cost of £1.159m for the... [21 Dec 2007]
Analysis: NAS and SAN uniting
Comment In recent years, networked storage has emerged to create larger pools of capacity that administrators can carve up for improved efficiency. EMC, IBM and less well-known storage specialists such as BlueArc are beginning to mix and match the best... [26 Jan 2004]
Why so many public sector IT projects fail
Comment The Gershon Review, carried out last year to identify opportunities for increasing efficiency in government, argues that back-office functions including IT, human resources and finance have much room for improvement. [14 Mar 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Simple prescriptions for data headaches
Comment One of the key resources within organisations is information and it's vital for efficiency, good customer service and cost savings that information is not duplicated but is easily available and able to be shared between parties who need it. [05 Apr 2006]
Devil’s Advocate: Is less IT the solution?
Comment But is more IT really the way to gain efficiency, or might less IT be the solution? I know that I have struggled for hours with esoteric software features, not because of any great gain in my efficiency, but more because I hate to be defeated by a... [30 Mar 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Report from spam hell
Comment Sure enough, bit-by-bit, my email efficiency has been eroded year-on-year by the growing spam menace. And it is that volume that is the problem - it is slowing down the net and as a result we are all losing efficiency. [19 Feb 2007]
The CIOs transforming government IT
CIO Analysis The CIO has never been more important to the public sector - in both local and central government and beyond - due to high-profile, multi-billion pound programmes such as NHS IT and ID cards, an efficiency agenda putting continued pressure on... [06 Jun 2007]
The CIOs transforming government IT
Comment The CIO has never been more important to the public sector - in both local and central government and beyond - due to high-profile, multi-billion pound programmes such as NHS IT and ID cards, an efficiency agenda putting continued pressure on... [27 Jun 2007]
Devil's Advocate: Open source for government
Comment They are central to the Cabinet Office eGovernment Unit's strategy and also to the Treasury's efficiency review. Quite apart from the huge gains that are made in reducing sales and marketing costs, the actual process whereby open source is written... [21 Feb 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Solutions to old problems in the New Year
Comment The trouble is, we take it for granted that we know what we are trying to achieve and therefore suppose that efficiency is always a gain. In fact, not only are we not always clear about our objective, frequently we do not even properly understand... [17 Dec 2001]
Devil's Advocate: The IT workforce - the wrong number of people?
Comment Long ago, when mainframes ruled unchallenged, the business mantra was efficiency. Well, no, the efficiency story wore thin and companies could no longer prosper merely by cost cutting. Continuing our coverage of our annual Skills Survey snapshot of... [12 Mar 2002]
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