How to Corral the User Community

Posted on Apr30 by Robert Bracco

Following protocol can sometimes lead to roadblocks, which is why some managers embrace the “do first, apologize later” philosophy. When it comes to purchasing IT products and services, business unit managers are no longer content waiting for IT in hopes … Continue reading

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Benchmarking 101: Three Options for Measurement

Posted on Apr15 by Brian Stedman

Those who attended ComSci’s webinar event, Best Practices for Benchmarking Your IT Spending and Staffing Ratios, came away with a wealth of practical information designed to give senior IT professionals the tools, techniques and theories that will help them measure … Continue reading

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Five Observations from the 2013 Gartner CIO Leadership Forum

Posted on Mar27 by Jeff Yoder

In an increasingly digital world, CIOs have to generate more value from technology investments to accelerate business performance and remain relevant in their organizations. That was the driving message heard by 400+ CIOs and senior IT leaders attending the recent … Continue reading

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The Changing Landscape of IT Financial Management – and Why Your IT Team Can’t Afford to Stay with its Legacy Approach

Posted on Mar6 by Robert Svec

With IT impacting everything from how work gets done to what company achieves status as an industry leader, the question today is less “what are the technologies needed to run the business?” to more “what are the investments that will … Continue reading

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IT Portfolio Rationalization: Three Big Questions Every CIO Should Ask

Posted on Feb21 by Jeff Yoder

Three questions that should be on every CIO’s mind in 2013: Are our IT portfolio and spend rationalized? How do we know? And what are the enterprise-wide steps we can take to govern that rationalized portfolio? IT portfolio rationalization is … Continue reading

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Moving Up the Maturity Curve around IT Financial Discipline

Posted on Jan31 by Brian Stedman

Depending on what your school experience was like, you may have loved – or dreaded – being graded on a curve. Today, a far less forgiving curve is in play for enterprise IT departments, and where your organization lands on … Continue reading

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When Catastrophe Strikes, are you Prepared to Weather the Storm?

Posted on Jan18 by Louis M Takacs

Every business is vulnerable to disruptions. Following in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, homes and businesses up and down the eastern seaboard were literally left powerless as transformers blew and trees ripped down power lines, creating widespread and long-lasting outages. … Continue reading

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Crystal Ball Gazing – Looking at the CIO’s 2013 Agenda

Posted on Jan3 by Robert Svec

What does the New Year hold for CIOs? While none of us at ComSci are clairvoyant, we do know that IT spending is expected to increase in 2013. At the same time, CIOs are facing pressure to identify technology investments … Continue reading

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BYOD: Positive for Workers, but Potentially Dangerous for the Bottom Line

Posted on Dec13 by Louis M Takacs

Ever since the introduction of the iPhone, the “bring your own device (BYOD)” trend has spread like wildfire. A recent Cisco survey reveals that 95 percent of organizations allow the use of employee-owned devices. Letting employees bring their own devices … Continue reading

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Are Your Budgeting Practices Stuck in a Time Warp?

Posted on Nov28 by Brian Stedman

While there are pressing demands on the IT budget process that range from IT consumerization to new technologies, stagnant IT budgeting strategies are holding many organizations back from taking a more strategic approach to IT spending, according to InformationWeek’s 14th … Continue reading

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