December 14, 2011 12:10 AM
Posted by: Arun Gupta
CIO,
IT budgets,
IT governance“My marketing team is wresting part of my budget of customer facing...
November 15, 2011 5:00 AM
Posted by: Arun Gupta
BITA,
IT budgets,
IT Metrics,
ROI,
role of the CIOThe other day I was in a gathering of CIOs being addressed by an eminent editor who was unraveling research conducted by his IT publication. The research surveyed a large number of CIOs who provided their
September 12, 2011 11:32 PM
Posted by: Arun Gupta
Add new tag,
IT budgets,
IT procurement,
Negotiating deals,
setting expectationsOne of my CIO friends narrated an interesting anecdote about his meeting with a CEO of a mid-sized IT services company. They were talking about the extension of a contract that had run through three successful years. The CEO was relatively new to the company...
November 2, 2010 6:00 AM
Posted by: Arun Gupta
budget discussions,
business case for IT,
CIO,
IT budgets,
learning from CXOs,
marketing IT,
ROIA long time back during a budget meeting, one of my CEOs narrated a story (or maybe a fable) on Boardroom discussions on budgets. This story has stayed with me for a long time, and the memory was refreshed last week in a discussion with some industry leaders. Here’s the story:
In the...
July 20, 2010 12:42 AM
Posted by: Arun Gupta
IT budgets,
IT chargeback,
IT management,
IT Metrics,
ITILEvery so often, the subject of chargeback raises its head, and challenges (un)conventional wisdom. In the recent past, it has been in the news as a critical requirement for deployment of cloud computing. Many reports...
