Wednesday 28th August, 2013

According to the research organisation,  Gartner - many organisations are now reportedly facing the challenge of continuous IT cost after the realisation that optimisation practices are never finished. The realisation for many has come after many years of careful cost-cutting.

According to a worldwide survey of 2,053 CIOs, 65 percent of those surveyed stated that the main barrier preventing organisations from achieving continuous optimisation of IT costs was related to mindset (that is, the ability for all resources to work together in the same direction with the same goal). CIOs felt that, if organisations were properly motivated and moving to achieve the same goal, they would make a greater impact on savings.

"Organisations don't often achieve the desired results from their optimisation initiatives, and costs end up returning into the business," said Sanil Solanki, research director at Gartner. "CIOs should consider incorporating five key principles into their organisation's cost optimisation practices to form a basis for continual optimisation. These principles are geared toward avoiding the danger of tactical cost initiatives, which may seem to generate savings in the short term, but can mean costs returning into the business in the long term."

To continually optimise IT costs and avoid dangers that can be created from tactical cost-cutting, the report indicated five key principles that CIOs should incorporate to ensure ongoing success of the business...