Best Practice Report

Budget Adjustments For CIOs In Lean Economic Times

What To Cut And What Not To Cut When The Budget Ax Must Fall

Phil Murphy
Alex Cullen
 and  one contributors
Mar 28, 2008

Summary

CIOs have faced lean economic times with regularity over the past four decades, and they will inevitably face lean times again — it isn't a question of whether they will happen but when. Forrester advises CIOs to base budget cuts on the impact to the business and to IT productivity, not on some misguided perception of equitable cuts across all areas.

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