Post doesn't have an IT budget to defend. He asks each unit he supports to pony up in exchange for a structure, a development environment, collaboration tools and an extended community of power users
iPhone deployment doesn't take the entire IT budget ...and the number one reason why iPhone is better than SharePoint: 1
But is social business an imperative to the IT budget-makers? Because here’s the second randomly-connected thought running through my head this week: IT Budgets are up, but not that far up Last week I mentioned Margo Day’s keynote address from Seattle SharePoint Palooza . One of the many memorable points she made was the fact that research shows that going into 2011 IT budgets are up compared to 2009 and 2010 levels
As Chadha astutely pointed out, this sprawl is eating up IT budgets, leaving no funding for innovation...If we don’t, we will continue to spend the bulk of our IT budgets on keeping the lights on and, frankly, that doesn’t sound very liberating
So, claims that 80% of money spent on IT does not add value or that 75% of IT budget is spent to keep systems working may be true, but without knowing where they came from, they’re hard to believe
She delivered some eye-opening comments: 70% of IT budgets are currently spent maintaining inflexible and siloed data center equipment
” SETTING THE EXAMPLE Itemize the challenges you currently face in leading your E2.0 project. Is it budget and funding? Is it the consultants who are domineering or the staff who are resistant to change?
Otherwise, we are likely to find ourselves making some tough and unfortunate decisions regarding the justification of allocating IT budgets and employee time to participate in the Web 2.0 market effectively
Traditionally only large organizations with dedicated technical staff and humungous IT budgets could consider implementing a sophisticated Data Capture solution but times are changing
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Gartner’s Peter Sondergaard has is exactly right: “Every budget is an IT budget. Every company is an IT company
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