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Book extract: Prioritizing security spending
In this excerpt from "The Shortcut Guide to Prioritizing Security Spending," you'll learn how to spend on cloud security and identify data flows that deserve protection.
How to negotiate with SAP, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle - and get more for your dollar!
Next time you negotiate with your suppliers, these tips can help you to get a better price or get more for your dollar from the likes of SAP, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle despite their weird "processor value unit" and "software assurance" schemes .
How to run your outsourcer
Using governance models to negotiate and oversee your outsourcing contracts can make a big difference to your suppliers' performance.
New tools let CIOs cut, monitor costs
Spend management software and cost transparency tools are new tools that CIO can use to monitor costs and identify opportunities to make savings. Learn about these tools and how to use them in this story.
How BPM and SOA work together for business process improvement
Better business processes are possible when SOA efforts work alongside business process management.
How one CIO boosted his IT budget despite GFC
Learn how the CIO of an Ugg boot manufacturer won a 15% budget increase despite falling sales and global gloom.
CIOs using GFC to get lower prices from outsourcers
CIOs are using the global financial crisis to renegotiate outsourcing contracts downwards on price. But outsourcers are fighting back with reduced service levels, say Gartner.
How to renegotiate supplier contracts to cut costs
It's time to renegotiate your contracts with suppliers to get a better price and we have advice on how to get the reductions you deserve.
Create a team to manage your vendors and profit from the experience
Learn how a team dedicated to managing relationships with vendors can save you money and improve your negotiating power.
Negotiate more effectively with your network provider
Telecoms companies are poorly differentiated and CIOs should negotiate hard... and lower end-user expectations about their performance.
How virtualisation can control software licence costs
Learn how application packaging and virtualisation can reduce software licensing costs.
25 ways to save money in your IT department
CIOs can expect to be asked to save money any minute now, so here's 25 cash-saving suggestions from Gartner.
Microsoft changes volume licensing, again!
Microsoft is ironing out some kinks from its volume licensing program.
Recession: A bond for CIO and CFO
In cost-cutting times, budget revisions are a top-down function for CFOs and CIOs, Forrester says.
Training budgets proving hard to justify without business metrics
Few IT organisations actually measure the value they get out of training their employees -- but IT heads like Hi Fert's John Dunn know its costs far too well. Without proof of its benefits, CIOs are at risk of losing their training budgets, as well as their employees.
Gartner: U.S. IT industry needs to wake up and smell the competition
Gartner plays provocateur in the opening keynote at this week's ITxpo, challenging U.S. IT pros to "take the first-mover advantage," or risk being eliminated.
IT spending: CIOs optimistic despite economic warning signs
A positive economic outlook has CIOs feeling rosy about their IT spending next year, but economists warn shrinking corporate profit growth could burst their bubble.
Budget battle: Increasing the business value of IT
CIOs who report only IT's "burn rate" and not the "earn rate" are just asking for their budgets to be cut. Gartner advises CIOs to frame the discussion in a new way: Yield.
Midmarket CIOs duck vendor pitches
The SMB space is so hot that many midmarket CIOs have devised ways to avoid those pesky vendors.
When it comes to BPO, buyer beware
The quickly shifting and intensely competitive BPO market means that CIOs have to be careful they don't get shortchanged.

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Budgeting for IT: Four pitfalls to avoid
Worried about getting your share of the corporate budget? Get the latest advice on how to avoid common pitfalls during the budget planning process.

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