Measuring and Controling IT Costs

Sebastian Nokes

126 pages, parution le 01/01/2001

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Résumé

IT is one of the major costs for businesses in the 21st Century and yet it is allowed to operate without the usual cost controls imposed on other departments. The last few years have seen huge investment in IT with the lead-up to Y2K and the explosion of e-business. But is it delivering the goods? It is hard for senior management without specialist IT knowledge to judge the value of IT spend. As we enter a period of economic slowdown, managers need to increase their efforts to manage costs. IT can no longer expect to be exempt.
Senior managers will find this briefing an invaluable guide to imposing normal cost discipline on IT spend – within the IT department or elsewhere – without the need for technical knowledge of IT. IT managers will also find it useful in implementing their own cost management programmes.

Contents include:

The opportunity and rewards of managing IT costs
Outline of a project to manage IT costs
Guidelines on implementing tasks
Cost allocations and their effect on real costs
IT strategy review
Outsourcing, ASPs and Internet in IT cost management

The opportunities and rewards of managing IT costs
A programm to grip IT costs
Cost allocations and their effect on real costs
IT strategy is the key to long-term cost management
Appendix: Review of accounting - its rationale, terms and tools

L'auteur - Sebastian Nokes

has 20 years' management experience. He is currently Chief Executive Officer of Jobstream Group PLC, which supplies IT systems to financial services industry. He has also founded ITVA, a management consultancy specialising in the measuring, and improving the use of, information technology to add value. The ITVA™ and Information Value™ processes developed by ITVA are in use in organisations throughout the UK and rest of the world to increase shareholder value from investment in IT and from the information supplied by an organisation's IT systems. Sebastian has also worked for IBM and Credit Suisse First Boston. He has led many large projects to align corporate IT to business needs and has worked on several corporate finance deals where the valuation of IT was a critical issue.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Prentice Hall
Auteur(s)	Sebastian Nokes
Parution	01/01/2001
Nb. de pages	126
Format	21 x 29,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	500g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780273656128