That would be a sure way of skewing things towards one area at the expense of others. But a more effective way of managing priorities in these difficult times is to challenge continuously how well specific applications are delivering business...
They want to:
reduce cost but not at the expense of value
reach more customers
offer a more flexible range of channels to sell through
integrate the business - but do it from a business perspective.
Put another way, youths are spending between nine and 13.5 per cent of their disposable income on mobile products, in some cases at the expense of traditional distractions such as chocolate - sales of which fell for the first time in 50 years in...
In the compliance arena Butler Group claims there is too much emphasis by businesses on simply archiving and storing information at the expense of retrieval. IT director priorities for 2005 will be dominated by compliance regulations and the need...
The rewards just didn't seem to be worth the trouble and the huge expense. According to Juliet Armstrong, a partner at consultancy The Berkeley Partnership, development of that strategic model will help to involve senior management from the whole...
With the industry still dominated by pressure to keep costs down and with little growth in tech budgets forecast for the next three years, Andy McCue talks to two financial services CIOs about current investment priorities and future trends.