{"id":1229,"date":"2015-09-09T13:07:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T13:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhp.co.uk\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2019-04-01T15:34:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:34:20","slug":"getting-your-technology-budget-balanced-how-to-limit-spend-but-increase-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhp.co.uk\/getting-your-technology-budget-balanced-how-to-limit-spend-but-increase-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting your technology budget balanced – how to limit spend but increase value"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t

Limiting spending but increasing the value software generates is the holy grail for every IT director. However, it’s becoming increasingly difficult as the demands placed on technology and the number of potential IT solutions grows. These days software solutions have to improve efficiency, offer flexibility and deliver innovation enabling a business to be more effective immediately and in the future. The IT director has to strike the right balance between what they spend on technology running the day to day (run spend), and what they spend on software that will change the business for the better (change spend). With budgets often capped or marginally increasing. IT directors have to find ways of spending less but still delivering change to stay ahead of the market. Getting the run\/change ratio right is a real challenge.<\/p>\n

Keeping on top of change<\/h2>\n

With numerous emerging technologies, it’s the responsibility of IT Directors to stay on top of the changing demands and expectations of customers<\/strong> and how they want to interact with an operation. Web based cloud services have become increasingly popular in the last couple of years as they have little maintenance or service cost that the business has to pay. New technology like the cloud is dramatically changing the dynamics of IT in businesses across the globe and has made a big impact on how IT directors now decide to spend their budget.<\/p>\n\t

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The Secret of Change Is to Focus All of Your Energy, Not on Fighting the Old, But on Building the New<\/p>\n