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The Cost Reduction Roadmap for IT
Presenter: Bob Benson, Senior Consultant, Cutter Business-IT Strategies practice
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Summary
According to most reports, the economy is flat and the immediate future looks like more of the same. At times like these, executives pay a lot of attention to possible cost reductions. This applies to IT in particular.
Most advice centered on reducing IT costs centers around ideas like renegotiating vendor contracts, offshoring, and deferring upgrades. Deferring systems development projects is yet another way companies attempt to reduce costs. But, unfortunately, most organizations have already gone down these roads. So what's next? How can substantial cost reductions be found in IT?
Join Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Bob Benson in an interactive webinar in which he reveals two often-overlooked areas business and IT exec can carefully explore to uncover the less-obvious opportunities for IT cost reduction: the project's capital and expense budget, and the ongoing IT expense budget.
As a result of his experience assisting organizations to maximize the business value of their projects, Bob Benson has developed a Cost Reduction Roadmap for IT that applies time-tested portfolio management principles. This roadmap establishes a cost reduction framework. During this hour-long webinar, you'll learn how the framework will help your organization understand:
- What are all the services that IT is providing?
- What are all the costs associated with these services?
- How do the costs compare with the value delivered and current performance of those services?
Discover how this framework can help your organization identify cost reduction opportunities and lay out its own roadmap for finding and acting on them.