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Practical Ways to Cut IT Spend

Started by thehotaisle · 11 months ago

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  • Andy Lewis

    10 months ago

    Hi Steve,

    I read this article back in July and I knew without any doubt that before long I would have to come back and read it again. Everyone is feeling the effects and the subsequent cascade of clenching so this really is a much needed injection of plain common sense into what is such an overcomplicated and emotional subject. It's such a help to start thinking this way before the demands start to fall.

    Thanks for the subliminal 'gee up'.

    Cheers
    Andy
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  • thehotaisle

    10 months ago

    In terms of cutting IT spend, I thought that Garner got it just about right. It is important to keep the emotion out of it and focus on reducing costs where that does not impact revenues or availability and spending money where that does drive revenues.

    A couple of overlooked matters are:

    1. It always costs more to do something twice (or more often) so get it right first time even if it is a little more expensive

    2. Take a lesson from Toyota and use straight through flow when delivering service http://www.thehotaisle.com/2008/07/23/i-was-jus... because when you reduce cycle time you reduce costs.

    Steve
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