Ultimately, there’s nothing we could say here which would be more valuable to IT budget planning and allocation than this: you need to have a strategic plan. Any allocations you make in a budget ultimately need to serve the business or organization’s master plan, so a budget is essentially useless without that starting point. But where else […]
You’re tasked with making the call — or helping to make the call — regarding your company or organization’s next purchase of a commercial technology solution. Where do you begin? If your first inclination was, “TO THE GOOGLE!”, slow down. Sure, you should look things up, but first, you must complete an entirely different, critical step. […]
If the events over the last year has taught businesses anything, it’s that the IT department needs to remain nimble and be able to adapt to changing economies and business dynamics without skipping a beat. However, it can be difficult to know exactly when, why, or how those decisions are made. At some point along […]
Any IT project or business plan will obviously change based on project scope and the needs of the organization creating it. But in general, we find that many members of our audience are searching for the right way to write an IT business plan. So we’ve interviewed some IT professionals to create this guide to […]
There are numerous aspects of your business or organization which could be tracked, analyzed, and extrapolated on to provide valuable insights for the future. But if you’re reading this article, you likely already know that business intelligence and analytics platforms can do that. Now, your real question: how do you choose the right platform to […]
When it comes time to set your IT budget and get it approved by your organization’s leadership, there are several things to keep in mind as you navigate the sea of service providers, vendors, manufacturers, and dealers to determine how much your organization will pay for critical products and services. This involves conversation with leadership […]
As a technology manager in the IT department, a major part of your job will be researching, estimating, and justifying the purchase of technology for your organization. However, you’ll rarely be the one to approve the technology budget. Often, someone from management or the C-Suite is going to come to you with an initiative for […]
When an IT manager implements a new technology project, there are a few fantasies of user adoption that runs through his or her head. Sometimes we’re doing it on behalf of upper management. We never wanted to adopt this technology in the first place, and we believe that none of the end user employees in […]
Achieving employee buy-in is just one part of change management, but it’s by far the most complicated and the part we’ve heard most leaders struggle with. So we thought we’d come up with some change management tips which focus on getting employees to buy-in to new technology — or even just new directions in leadership. […]
It is at the very beginning stage of an installer-enterprise partnership that companies decide to construct and send out a RFP for technology services, or a request for proposal. When a company is in need of a technology installer to come in and design or install a new system, the process of finding the right […]
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