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IT-Business Articles, Tutorials & Webcasts
Budget & Cost Basics
How
to Get Your Budget Approved
CFOs look for certain things in a good IT budget. Here's
what yours should—and shouldn't—include. At CIO.com
A
Delicate Balance
Organizations walk a fine line between scrutinizing tech
spending and stifling IT leaders. At InformationWeek.com
IT
Budgets and ROI
Purse strings are loosening ever so slightly, but that won't
slow the quest for better metrics. At CFO.com
Use
These Tips To Get Your Budgets Approved
Eight high-level guidelines for developing an organizational
IT budget. At ZDNetAustraila.com
Follow
These Tips and Avoid Common Budget Missteps
IT managers often find themselves in the unenviable position
of trying to reconcile an overextended budget by midyear.
Here are some of the reasons why this happens, along with a
list of items that you can't afford to leave out of your
budget. At TechRepublic.com
The
CIO's Green Mile
Seven tactics for planning annual IT budgets. At CIO.com
Tips
For Turning IT From Cost Center To Profit Center
IT organizations must focus on increasing revenue, not just
cutting costs, in moving IT from cost center to profit
center. At InformationWeek.com
Facing
An IT Future
Is the CFO a tech-savvy numbers cruncher or a fiscally savvy
technology manager? It's something you need to know. At InformationWeek.com
Get
Real on Cost of Ownership
Discusses the difficulties of measuring "hard" and
"soft" benefits the importance of a systematic
methodology to measure the real costs and benefits of
technology. From CIO Magazine.
Tolerance
for High Maintenance
IT organizations are finding they have the power to
negotiate better terms up front and get more bang for their
buck. From CIO Magazine
Sticker
Shock
You could soon be earmarking almost a quarter of your
company's revenues for IT. So you better start treating
technology like the strategic investment it is. From Darwin
Magazine
The
Shrinking IT Budget
Results of a survey features quarterly interviews with 300
IT and business executives. For the first time in the
survey's four-year history, more than half the respondents
say their budgets are either flat or declining--almost
double the 28% who responded the same way in the last
survey.Concerns about the uncertain U.S. economy have
resulted in IT budget cuts for 15% of the respondents;
another 7% are considering scaling back for the same reason.
From InformationWeek Magazine
IT:
Hold on to Your Wallet!
Are CIOs' ruining CFOs' budgets? From CIO Magazine
IT
Dollars and Sense
The "new economics" of business and how it is
affecting IT / IS budgets and budget decision making. From
InformationWeek Magazine
In spite of how far we've come and how elegant and powerful much of our information technology really is, and in spite of bear market prices, I must admit that we still spend too much money on business technology -- way too much. Let's look at what's going on -- and how we might get more bang for the buck. At ITManagement.earthweb.com
Still
Growing Strong
Growth in IT spending won’t be completely stalled due to
economic slowdowns and dotcom in the coming months according
to a Meta Group report. From CIO Magazine
Corporations
Rein In IT Spending
Corporations are putting the brakes on IT spending growth,
according to a Merrill Lynch survey. IT budget growth could
slow – Short article about the top and bottom corporate
spending priorities. From Techweb Magazine
What
Every Manager Needs to Know About Budgeting
If you have ever been confused by your organization’s
budget or budgeting process, this tutorial is designed for
you. The topic is demystified through a concise, plain
English, discussion of why budgeting often seems to work
against you, and what you can do to make it work for you.
From Resource Management Systems, Inc.
The
War on Traditional Budgeting
When “traditional budgeting” is a once-a-year ritual
predicated upon the belief that the future can be set in
stone, its future is bleak. The traditional budget can't
coexist peaceably with business performance management
software. One has got to go -- and it won't be the BPM
system. At BusinessFinanceMag.com
Bang
for the Budget
The days of approving IT budgets with nary a raised eyebrow
have gone the way of the buffalo. Today, savvy executives
demand business value for their IT buck. From CIO Magazine
Time
to Bin the Budget
Alternatives to the traditional budget process. Why some
organizations are changing their approach to the annual
process and how they are doing it. From CFO Magazine
(Europe)
Sprinting
to a Streamlined Budget
Sprint has done away with traditional budgeting; now it
emphasizes forecasting based upon key business drivers and
exception-based performance monitoring and measurement
system. From CFO Magazine (Europe)
The
Case Against Budgeting
New survey data reveals problems in budgeting, planning and
forecasting and ideas to strengthen those processes. Early
movers are gaining competitive advantage. At BusinessFinanceMag.com
Hard
Times Ahead?
CIOs haven't been socked with budget cuts yet, but many are
preparing to tighten their belts in the softening economy.
From ComputerWorld
Software
That Saves You Money
Perhaps the area that has the greatest potential for savings
is employee time. Companies that spend less time preparing
the budget generally spend less money on it. A 2001 study by
Hackett Benchmarking & Research reports that the average
company with annual sales of $1 billion spends 25,000
person-days per year on planning and measuring performance.
However, the upper 25 percent in terms of budgeting
efficiency spend only about 6,000 person-days per year.
Implementing a new software system can move average
companies into the top quartile. At BusinessFinanceMag.com
Follow
The Money
This article focuses on software tools to help answer the
question: Where are IT dollars going? This article reviews
the capabilities of several commercial products. From
InformationWeek Magazine.
Enriched
Performance Data
Activity-based management improves business performance
management processes by providing insight into costs, but
few companies are combining the two disciplines. Here's why.
At BusinessFinanceMag.com
Predictions:
IT Budgets – Still Growing Strong
Meta Group prediction of overall IT spending in 2001. From
CIO Magazine
Spreadsheet
Hell
FOs are interested in the many new technologies being
pitched to them, but are they really trapped in spreadsheet
hell? At CFO.com
Winning
the Battle of the Budget
World-class companies are adding significant value to the
budget process through linkage with their long-range
strategic plan and by focusing on bottom-line performance.
At BusinessFinanceMag.com
What
CIOs Need to Know About Money
To succeed in business, you need to understand how
businesspeople keep score. Being a modern-day CIO - an equal
partner with your enterprise's other business leaders - is
not a matter of saving a dollar here, amortizing an
investment there, or even making IT look good on the balance
sheet and in the annual report; it's about understanding how
to enhance the value of the company as a whole.