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Bailout Means Risk Officers Should Believe Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Have you been peering through the looking glass? Did you see that Bank of America would buy Merrill Lynch? That Lehman Brothers would file for bankruptcy? The US federal government bailout of AIG? WaMu’s collapse? What else is “impossible”? In this Advisor, Bob Charette urges you to start each day thinking about the six impossible things that might pose systemic risk to your organization.
--Anne Mullaney
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Cutter Consortium offers a simple, two-step roadmap to significantly reduce IT cost:
- Phase 1: A one-day overview of your organization''s current IT budget and related IT management processes. Outcome: A statement of a practical approach to achieve cost reduction opportunities and the roadmap (plan) for achieving them.
- Phase 2: Implementation of the roadmap's recommended actions for cost reduction. Outcome: For most organizations, implementing items uncovered by the roadmap can produce a 10% reduction in IT costs.
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Since human costs are often the most significant place to start cutting, I will offer an alternative strategy to outsourcing or downsizing. I call it rightplacing.


