According to the 2009 Rotman-TELUS Joint Study on Canadian IT Security Practices the financial crisis has had a negative impact on IT security budgets. The 2009 subprime mortgage crisis was prompted by a striking rise in mortgage foreclosures in the United States, with major adverse effects for banks and financial markets around the globe. Regarding [...]
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IT Security Budget – Impact of Financial Crisis
Posted in budget, security, tagged budget security telus on March 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
IT Metric With Meaning – IT Headcount to Free Cash Flow
Posted in budget, cash flow, personel, staffing, Uncategorized, tagged budget staffing cash on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mark McDonald, group vice president and head of research in Gartner Executive Programs, suggests replacing the IT budget / revenue ratio with a metric that has meaning – like IT headcount to Free Cash Flow. That is a metric one CIO is using and it makes more sense because it can be managed. He suggests [...]
Information Technology Budgeting Scoreboard
Posted in budget, university, tagged budget, education, finance, government, health care on April 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
itmWEB, a source for information technology reference, methodology, and technical content focused on IT departmental management, technology support, and project leadership, posted the following information technology (IT) budgeting metrics. IT Budget % of Total Revenues (Education Industry): 1.9% IT Budget % of Total Revenues (Finance Industry): 4.9% IT Budget % of Total Revenues (Government Industry): [...]
7 Benchmarks for IT Investments
Posted in budget, personel, staffing, Uncategorized, university, tagged budget, staffing, university on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Seven spending benchmarks are used to help university campuses evaluate IT services. By benchmarking against institutions with similar missions, IT leaders can gain insights into how to best optimize these investments. Benchmark #1 – Budget Profile [shows how IT dollars are allocated across institutional budget classifications] Benchmark #2 – Budget Support Level [IT dollars are [...]
Information Technology Operation Benchmarks – University
Posted in budget, helpdesk, personel, servers, staffing, system admin, tech support, Uncategorized, university, tagged benchmark, budget, staffing, university on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A “Information Technology Operation Benchmarks Report” created by Nick Ganesan, CIO/Associate Vice-Chancellor for ITTS at Fayetteville State University. The report contains detailed benchmark data for: IT Budget Profile IT Budget per IT User IT Budget as a Percentage of Institutional Budget IT Users to IT Staff ratio IT Staff to Number of PCs – Ratio [...]
