Is your 2010/11 budget submission lower than this year's? According to Gartner, CIOs should be requesting more budget, not less, to invest in IT in support of business growth. The analysts believe that waiting until the end of the recession will be too late for most organisations when demand picks up again.
So rather than cutting your budget request, start thinking about future IT projects that will be required to cope with even the most modest of improvements in the economy. As Ken McGee (VP and Gartner fellow) states "Having a completed plan will enable the near-immediate allocation of funding and staffing for IT projects, thus avoiding the need to take weeks to devise a plan after senior executives mandate the need to support business growth initiatives." A bold strategy perhaps but one that could ensure your are in the starting blocks when customer demand fires the starting pistol.
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