CUT COSTS without sacrificing

Given today’s challenging economy, organizations of all kinds face intense financial pressure from such factors as slowing sales, squeezed profits and hard-to-raise capital. In response, many are setting strategies to limit their operational costs. Cost containment, done right, is a powerful way to outpace the competition, reward investors and help an organization achieve its most important financial goals.

Yet the task is even more complicated. At the same time, CIOs are also being asked to improve alignment among business innovations and IT processes, deal with rising hardware and software maintenance costs, pay higher employee expenses, and connect with, manage and secure a new wave of mobile computing and communications devices.