Tag Archives: IT Allocation

IT Portfolio Rationalization: Three Big Questions Every CIO Should Ask

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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The New Reality: Doing Less with Less

Technology plays a vital role for organizations looking to bring innovative services to customers. But, with continued pressures placed on lowering IT budgets, how can organizations optimize technology investments and ensure they have the funding needed to do more than … Continue reading

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Saving Business Users from Disaster

Are technology-savvy, empowered and informed business managers potentially dangerous to your business? It might sound counterintuitive, but more informed business consumers with the power to purchase technology solutions may wreak havoc on more than just the IT budget – they … Continue reading

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ITFMA 2012 Conference Attendees Agree: It’s Time to Put Discipline around IT Finance

In the heart of San Francisco, more than 225 IT finance professionals from private-sector companies and government agencies gathered together last week at the ITFMA’s Financial World of Information Technology Conferences. This marks the organization’s 25th year and the event … Continue reading

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Chargeback – It’s NOT a Four Letter Word Any More

If the notion of chargeback to your business units for IT allocations makes you shudder, it’s probably because your experience with it was a bit ahead of its time. Many early attempts at ‘chargeback’ were ‘homegrown’ and failed because the … Continue reading

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Is your Technology Allocation Process Giving Under-Consumers the Short End of the Stick?

When it comes to technology chargeback, over-consumption gets all the attention, but under-consumption leaves users and business units with the short end of the stick. A simple percentage allocation method that spreads costs evenly across business units – rather than … Continue reading

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IT Financial Accountability: It’s Everyone’s Job

If you haven’t yet involved the full spectrum of stakeholders – from the CEO, CIO and CFO to the IT leaders, business unit managers and even to the business partners – in revising behavior and attitude toward technology, now is … Continue reading

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Prevent Managers from Going Rogue!

The perception of many business unit managers is that IT purchases and services shouldn’t be allocated and should instead be absorbed as a corporate operating expense. In a traditional chargeback model the IT department might divide its budget for services … Continue reading

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