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The Current State of Supply and Demand Management in IT

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Overview The level of importance in balancing both supply and demand to maximize the value IT delivers to the business cited by IT leaders makes it clear that IT organizations today need to increase their level of investment in improving the efficiency of IT services and the effectiveness of managing demand. So what does all this mean for the IT organization? Basically, the organization can use responses from this survey as a benchmark for how one's peers are addressing these issues. If the IT organization is not currently balancing both supply and demand, one needs to begin to address this.

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Publisher	Compuware	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Strategic Planning

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