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  Machine-Based Decision-Making Is Coming

  There may come a day when computers take over the business decision-making process.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 07 November, 2011 22:06

  Tags: Management and Careers, Gartner, roi, it strategy, CIO role, IT Leadership, IT management

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  IT tier-level support, chargebacks, called wasteful

  ORLANDO -- With their budgets seeing little increase, IT managers are being urged by Gartner Inc. to reexamine many of their long-followed IT practices and then, quite simply, kill them .

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 20 October, 2011 06:04

  Tags: IT industry, applications, roi, it strategy, CIO role, software, IT Leadership, IT management, project management, Gartner

• Business paper use remains high

  Businesses aren't rushing to create paperless offices; in fact, some are relying on paper documents more than ever, according to a new study by CompTIA.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 21 September, 2011 06:58

  Tags: hardware, IT industry, roi, it strategy, hardware systems, comptia, IT management

• Office 365 arrives to flat IT spending

  Microsoft is pitching its cloud-based Office 365 as a less costly alternative for IT budgets, assuming IT managers can find money in their budgets for a migration.

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 29 June, 2011 07:07

  Tags: Government use of IT, IT industry, roi, IT in Government, it strategy, government, IT management, cloud computing, internet, Google, IDC, Microsoft

• 8 Ways to Measure Cloud ROI

  An initiative from The Open Group has developed a set of key considerations for how to build and measure return on investment (ROI) for cloud computing initiatives from a business perspective. By examining the benefits cloud computing offers organizations and showing the potential return it can provide from the beginning, companies may find it easier to gain buy-in for cloud initiatives from the executive team, as well as the IT department.

  By Mark Skilton | 27 May, 2010 02:19

  Tags: roi, cloud computing

• Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Yields ROI

  The promise of cost savings derived from cloud computing is attractive, but concrete financial returns are not always quickly achieved. Except, perhaps, when it comes to disaster recovery.

  By Kim S. Nash | 17 June, 2010 05:53

  Tags: disaster recovery, roi, cloud computing

• Four Tips for Getting Good ROI from Web 2.0 Projects

  While Web 2.0 applications such as blogs, wikis and social networks have been wildly popular with consumers, efforts to measure the technology's success for businesses have returned mixed results. In fact, recent research from the Burton Group indicates that business leaders have struggled to define best use cases, measure their success and chart returns on investment.

  By C.G. Lynch | 24 April, 2009 08:42

  Tags: roi, Web 2.0, social networking

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