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October 11, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:43 PM/EST
Dollar Down, Insourcing UpIt's harder than it looks to save money by outsourcing and offshoring. Now it's going to get even tougher. According to Mark McDonald, group vice president of Gartner Executive Programs, the fall of the U.S. dollar's value against foreign currencies,... October 10, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 1:57 PM/EST
Gartner: IT Isn't Strategic? Nonsense!I'm in Orlando at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, where one of the issues du jour is the recent flare-up in the debates over whether IT is strategic, and whether CIOs will still be needed. There's no question where this organization's top... October 4, 2007
Thursday, October 04, 2007 12:00 PM/EST
Top CEO ChallengesWhat CEOs want, CIOs must deliver--which is why the Conference Board's latest study CEO Challenge 2007: Top 10 Challenges, is so important. Of the 769 CEOs surveyed worldwide, more than 409 work in the United States. The message to CIOs:... October 3, 2007
Wednesday, October 03, 2007 1:11 PM/EST
Social Networking's ROIWhat's the business value of social networking software? Harvard Business School professor and blogger Andrew McAfee has come up with a good, non-intuitive answer, courtesy of a seminal 1973 article by Stanford University sociologist Mark Granovetter: titled "The Strength of... September 27, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:49 AM/EST
The Cost of Complexity"Is enterprise software just too complex to deliver on its promises?" That's the excellent question posed in an article on the Web site of the MIT Sloan Management Review by consultant Cynthia Rettig. Her answer is a forceful but thoughtful... Read more... | Comment (10) | del.icio.us | digg.com
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September 26, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:52 AM/EST
Few Projects Are Over BudgetIf a penny saved is a penny earned, how many pennies are earned when a project is kept on track? One of the best ways to manage costs has got to be keeping projects on budget. So we asked IT... September 24, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007 12:41 PM/EST
Outsourcing: What Savings?As have so many of our surveys, our cost management survey shows that IT outsourcing is usually not an effective way to reduce IT costs. Only 15% have found it results in large savings, while 45% found it only produces... September 19, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:37 AM/EST
The Cost Information ShortageIt's hard to manage IT costs effectively if your company doesn't have the information it needs. But getting that information is a huge job - total cost of ownership has a lot of moving parts, and estimating future costs is... September 17, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007 4:29 PM/EST
Half of CIOs Dispute HamelOne of the reasons Gary Hamel argues so strenuously for the management innovation is his belief that it is the chief source of long-lasting competitive advantage. Do CIOs agree?... September 11, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:15 PM/EST
Forum: What's Your Cost Management Strategy?Whenever we look at future trends or IT spending plans, we always do so with this caveat: "But if the economy begins to head south ..." And while like you I'm hoping for the best, companies have to prepare for...
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