Information Technology is one of the major costs for businesses in the 21st Century and yet it is allowed to operate without the usual cost controls imposed on other departments. The last few years have seen huge investment in IT with the lead-up to Y2K, the explosion of e-business and the increased dependence on IT business systems. But is it delivering the goods? It is hard for senior management without specialist IT knowledge to judge the value of IT spend. As we enter a period of economic slowdown, managers need to increase their efforts to manage costs. IT can no longer expect to be exempt.
Senior managers will find this briefing an invaluable guide to imposing normal cost discipline on IT spend – within the IT department or elsewhere – without the need for technical knowledge of IT. IT managers will also find it useful in implementing their own cost management programmes.
Contents include:
The opportunity and rewards of managing IT costs
Outline of a project to manage IT costs
Guidelines on implementing tasks
Cost allocations and their effect on real costs
IT strategy review
Outsourcing, ASPs and Internet in IT cost management
- ISBN10 0273649434
- ISBN13 9780273649434
- Publish Date 6 January 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pearson Education Limited
- Imprint Addison Wesley
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English