IT Budget Challenge 2011: Keep Your Seatbelts Fastened, It's Going to Be Another Bumpy Ride

Cutter's 6th annual IT budgeting survey examines general and specific aspects of IT budgeting in 68 organizations. The critical year-over-year data makes is possible to truly evaluate some longer-term trends.

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What are the most important management initiatives taken to reduce IT costs?

"The 'easy pickings' for strategies such as consolidation and outsourcing have already been implemented (sometimes in several iterations). So how much more can be tolerated, and for how much longer?"

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If the IT organization undertakes a project that decreases the costs of providing IT service, that savings ...

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Respondents who agree or strongly agree that their IT organizations give them a competitive advantage.

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