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The Effective IT Report has since its inception compared the relative merits of IT strategies on the basis of their perceived effectiveness among those organisations that have adopted them. The term effectiveness implies both utility – did the technology or management approach achieve what it was supposed to? – and value for money; a technology that served its functional purpose but bankrupted the business could hardly be described as effective.
In the past year, however, the latter concern dominated IT strategy. For the vast majority of IT departments, the job of 2009 was to reduce cost without significantly impairing... read more...
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