So you think information governance boring and OK to ignore? Then you want to continually recreate content, pay more for ediscovery, and not be able to maximize your ability to gain insight about your business and customers from your information. Johnny Lee explains why you need...
I was speaking with a potential client who said that one of their procurement problems was that project costs tended to grow and once started on the upward spiral, they were hard to control
It makes sense that they would explore their options: most IT organizations find themselves constantly under pressure to reduce costs, to do more with the people they have, and to deliver against requirements and timelines that they often have little influence over. The chargeback model is a way of assigning value to IT projects, and while no real cash transaction happens between organizations in most cases, the goal is to help customer organizations better understand the costs associated with many of their requests
It addresses most of the hard dollar costs of paper based issues: staff time for filing and searching, storage space costs in the office, file cabinet and supply costs, and short and long term third party storage costs
And, these are the explicit costs that we can see….what about the costs to workers who are less productive, the cost of overtime and temps, and the cost of the ill-will created by a system that doesn’t work?
SPOT members analyze the costs and resources associated with project requests to determine if and when a particular project fits into the IT department’s schedule
Costs/Profits – this is the LAST of your worries, and is directly tied to how well you are performing on the other three
Platforms like SharePoint allow teams to do much more with their remaining funds, shifting focus of headcount costs from maintenance to innovation services
What processes can be sped up, what costs reduced, what redundant systems shut down by using SharePoint?
Law 6: Court attention at all costs. What kinds of attention?