Telindus believes a lack of network visibility and ROI (return on investment) measurement may be hampering the IT department's cause. However the survey indicates that the importance of cost cutting and ROI increase significantly when gaining board...
On the standards front, HP said it is working with BEA, Iona Technologies, Tibco and WebMethods to contribute a web services management specification to a distributed management working group within the Organization for the Advancement of...
They provide the ability to generate significant business ROI in customer data mining, channel optimisation, unstructured knowledge retention and increased commercial and government portal effectiveness.
The benefits of this structured discipline include reducing the operating cost of the IT portfolio (without sub-optimising IT investments), improving ROI, mitigating risk and delivering tangible benefits and value.
Integrating the total cost of capital employed by using the EVA formula of WACC (Weighted Average Cost of Capital) x Capital Employed in the IT scorecard can help the business visualise the IT ROI. Attempts either to skip or to shortchange needed...
And this is where I think resources for R&D funding need to be focused, in a sector with the potential for a far greater ROI. To my mind, the future of business is going to be more and more SME-based, much more flexible and adaptive.