Anne Agee, vice provost for information technology and CIO at the University of Massachusetts Boston, is in a position that many IT managers find themselves these days, coping with the ongoing effects of a grinding recession while simultaneously being asked to get ready for a recovery. She is preparing for a cut to her IT budget that could be as high as 9% for the next fiscal year. On the other, she is bracing for a boom in business.
She is already renegotiating vendor contracts, to reduce the risk of having to cut staff if she does have to whack her budget. Another hedge would be to close labs on weekends and slow certain technology purchases.
With revenues crushed at many companies, even IT managers who avoided outsourcing in the past are being forced to consider anew whether there are non-essential services they can outsource.
Source: IDG News
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