Manage IT Staff in a Shrinking Economy
If you're facing the prospect of cutbacks, here are some tips for maintaining an effective IT staff and keeping your company technically proficient in lean times. For starters, don't be too quick with the pink slips and be sure to reward productivity, initiative and entrepreneurship.
Forrester: How to squeeze your vendors
IT vendors may be growing increasingly desperate amid the global economic downturn, but customers must employ a range of tactics -- not just bullying -- to extract cost savings from them.
Fear: The Great De-motivator
When you, as a manager, get the productivity speech or when you, as an IT professional, hear your manager talk about productivity, be happy. It could be worse. You could be hearing panicked conversations about throwing people and projects overboard.
Risks, rewards, challenges of financing IT purchases
What happens if a company defaults on a loan for a multimillion-dollar ERP software purchase? Or can't pay for the hardware, software and services that it bought two quarters ago? As it turns out, hardware is just like a house or car: It can be "repo'ed," refurbished and resold by the vendor or, perhaps, put out on eBay.
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