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Do more with less (more or less)
The CIO Jury over at Silicon.com has announced that "IT budgets are set to increase in 2007 on the back of technology refreshes and mobile working projects" (not exactly what they were saying in 2005, but who can predict IT these days?).

Why the extra dosh? Many, many vague reasons, apparently:
  • "In order to provide a resilient service in a growing market"
  • "a continued shift to get in front of the client and build on those face-to-face client relationships"
  • "replacement cycles and process improvement initiatives"
And it's not all about radical spending of course. According to Mark Dearnley, CIO at Cable & Wireless: "I expect to need to deliver more for less."

So, to summarise: there'll be more money made available and expectations for ROI will be higher, but no-one's actually prepared to say what IT might be bought or needed, how it's going to be used or what level of ROI is acceptable.

Business as usual, then?

Posted: 07/12/2006 Comments: 0
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