Tag Archives: IT Financial Management

Moving Up the Maturity Curve around IT Financial Discipline

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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George Westerman Shares Thought Leadership during “The Real Business of IT” Webinar

Recently we had the pleasure of hosting a webinar featuring MIT Sloan School of Management’s Dr. George Westerman, a leading authority on strategic potential of IT and organizational aspects of technology innovation. During this informative session, he shared his expertise … 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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Simplifying “Cloud Technospeak”

Leveraging technology to drive revenue for the business is a key priority for many CIOs. As a result, many IT leaders are exploring infrastructure alternatives such as cloud computing to drive operational efficiencies and reduce costs. A recent IDG survey … Continue reading

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Automating IT Financial and Business Management: It Comes Down to Service

It may be instinctive to immediately think of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) when it comes to service and cloud-based enterprise software solutions. However, when your company is making an investment in IT financial and business management solutions, the service aspect … 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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Combining the Benefits of Software-as-a-Service with IT Financial Management

As organizations expand their global footprint, the benefits of all SaaS-based applications increase. In addition to moving the technology commitment from a capital to an operational expense, delivery of enterprise applications via the internet enables all users to access the … 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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Automating IT Financial and Business Management

…It Comes Down To Service… It may be instinctive to immediately think of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) when it comes to service and cloud-based enterprise software solutions. However, when your company is making an investment in IT financial and business … 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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