SaaS For IT Management
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Reducing Costs and Improving Efficiency- What IT Managers Are All About This Year
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 2 commentsAt first it seems illogical. With IT Managers reporting flat or decreasing budgets, you wouldn’t think that initiating new projects would make a lot of sense. Or does it? Well, when those initiatives are all about reducing costs and improving efficiency it does.
In her article "Budget cuts give IT management projects new life" in Network World, Denise Dubie gives some numbers that support the idea:
IBM in December 2008 and January 2009 surveyed some 421 organizations to better understand the impact of the economic downturn on IT budgets. More than 60% of those surveyed said the economy is the number one business issue affecting IT investment priorities. Eighty-five percent of the IT decision-makers polled by IBM reported flat IT budgets, while 10% said they had experienced significant reductions.
The survey also found that 75% of respondents continued, expanded or initiated projects designed to improve efficiency and reduce costs of business activities. Another 76% said the same about projects that promised to accelerate workforce productivity. About 72% were focusing their efforts on IT investments that improved access to and leveraged customer information, while 63% were working toward increasing customer retention and loyalty. And 39% indicated they continued to continue, expand or initiate projects to reduce capital costs.
IBM’s poll also revealed that following security and compliance, IT systems management and service management ranked the highest among IT executives’ priorities with 65% and 64% indicating that such projects would be continued, expanded or newly initiated, respectively.
I get it. See, there are a bunch of things on my "to-do" list. Things I’d do on a rainy day when there was nothing else to do. Cleaning out my apartment, fixing some things that are broken, etc. But I keep putting them off. Though not the strongest of parallels, I know, I think the same goes for IT Management. I’d imagine it’s pretty safe to assume that there are things IT Managers keep meaning to get to, but they fall to the wayside due to more important projects.
But with stagnant or shrinking budgets, those housekeeping items like storage management and reexamining archiving processes start creeping up on the importance scale.
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