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4 Easy Budget Cuts Every IT Manager Can Find

The IT Value Challenge’s author outlines four ways that companies can cut non-value IT spending without gutting IT’s ability to provide critical services and deliver value in new byline article on CIOUpdate.com.

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Please note this is the third in a series of three articles. The first two articles may be found here and here.

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A Value Case for FCPA Compliance

Many companies choose to invest significant time, effort and money into Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance because they fear the consequences of failure to comply. The good news is that FCPA compliance can have an upside: creating value for the business.

In a new byline article on CorporateComplianceInsights.com, the IT Value Challenge’s author shares three ways to leverage FCPA compliance to creatve value for the enterprise and getter a better return on those frequently mandatory investments.

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How to recapture IT spending

In a new article on CIOUpdate.com, the IT Value Challenge’s author outlines ways that companies can reclaim a portion of their non value-creating IT spending to make it available to improve company economic performance or for differential investment.

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Please note this is the second in a series of three articles. The first article in the series may be found here.

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How to divorce your tech vendor

Norman Harber, CEO at IT Value Challenge’s partner company Leverage Corporation, shares tips and tricks with InfoWorld readers about how to make breaking up with your tech vendor not quite so hard to do in a new article by contributing editor Dan Tynan of Infoworld.com.

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Charting a course for IT in 2011

2011 represents a critical recovery year for many companies still recovering from the 2008 economic downturn, and a make-or-break year for the IT departments that support them. At the same time IT spending is on the rise, so are the business’ expectations of value. There are three key, collaborative concepts business and IT executives can leverage to increase their mutual chances of success in 2011. (more…)

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What if Your Achievements Are Hard to Quantify?

The IT Value Challenge’s author shares creative ways IT executives and professionals can state hard-to-quantify acheivements in a way that will resonate with business executives and potential employers in a new IT Business Edge article by IT career guru Susan Hall.

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Understanding the ROI of Value Creation

In a new CIOUpdate.com article, the IT Value Challenge’s author outlines an approach both business and technology executives can take to “have their cake and eat it too” by allocating a greater share of the IT budget to activities that create value for the enterprise.

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The Most Mismanaged of All IT Assets

Pretend for a moment that you are a CEO, and you learn that an asset that costs your company a cool quarter of a million dollars a year is chronically underutilized. Wouldn’t you want to do something about it? (more…)

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Go to the “Gemba”

automobiles,cars,factories,industrial,industries,males,manufacturing,men,people,people at work,photographs,silhouettes,testing,testing facilities,testsIn a professional world increasingly dominated by electronic communications, telephone- and video-conferencing and telecommuting, it has become increasingly easy for IT departments to become isolated from the business processes they support and the internal and external customers they serve – with undesirable results for everyone. (more…)

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Making the most of Continuous Controls Monitoring investments

Despite the steep costs of implementing Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM), AMR Research reports that it will be one of the top three GRC investment areas of 2010. GRC executives must maximize the value of this significant investment to justify increased GRC spending going forward.

Many IT departments have, or will, be challenged to make significant investments in CCM technology in 2010 and 2011. There are opportunities for IT to work with Governance, Risk and Compliance groups to maximize the return on those investments and extend the core capabilities of CCM technologies to create value elsewhere in the business. By doing so, IT can demonstrate additional value and help justify other technology-enabled process improvements as well.

To read the article click here or visit CorporateComplianceInsights.com.

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