Margaret Smith, IT director at insurer Legal & General, talks about a budget that has gone down every year for the past four years - even though her business demands more from IT. Listening to leading CIOs yesterday, it would be easy to question...
Alastair Behenna, CIO at Harvey Nash, said "enhancing business performance with a declining budget" will be his main challenge for 2008. Business demands will continue to want greater agility but quality deliverables and the same or lower cost.
While the budget is probably going to have an impact on the residential marketplace, it is much less likely to provide economic support for people seeking to start-up their own business. First, were the Chancellor to abolish capital gains tax for...
This goes much further than the traditional processes of making the business case, ensuring business line involvement, forecasting monetary returns and measuring actual versus budget both in costs and time.
When silicon.com spoke to influential high-tech industry figures before the budget, they highlighted ecommerce tax breaks, the scrapping and simplification of certain taxes and improving national insurance charges on share options as areas of...
Chancellor Gordon Brown today unveiled a budget that he billed as encouraging both fairness and enterprise for all. In addition the chancellor responded to demands for more help to get companies' payroll systems online.