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CIO Decisions - April 2010 Volume 1

Running lean, in IT speak, refers to the process of doing more with less inside your enterprise IT organization. In the April 2010 edition of Enterprise CIO Decisions Ezine, find out how IT Service Management (ITSM), outsourcing, agile project management and other tactics are turning IT into a lean, mean fighting machine. Access >>>

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- IT budgets still uncertain as CIOs weigh 2010 technology spending by Linda Tucci, Senior News Writer
  One month into 2010, the IT budgets picture is still ambiguous, with two consultancies offering different outlooks and CIOs juggling between keeping costs low and making necessary upgrades.
- The road to agile IT runs through IT services management and PPM by Christina Torode, Senior News Writer
  Agile IT can be realized with IT services management best practices and project portfolio management, but IT leaders need to clean house first.
- Vendor contract management key to cutting costs through renegotiation by Christina Torode, News Director
  Enterprises are finding ways to use vendor contract management as a means to cut costs by renegotiating contracts down to the maintenance-clause and business-unit levels.
- CIO technology spending focused on reducing risk, boosting efficiency by Linda Tucci, Senior News Writer
  Doing more with less remains the mantra for CIOs as we dig into our IT Priorities Survey on technology spending. The big priorities? Mitigating risk. Essential upgrades. Cutting costs.

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