Gartner® 10 Rules to Rapidly Reduce IT Spend

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We believe you should consider refreshing your knowledge, validating your thinking, and eliminating blind spots with Gartner’s® 10 Rules to Rapidly Reduce IT Spend. 

This research features 10 short-term cost-cutting rules that can help CIOs achieve savings targets while minimizing operational impact.

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While it can be tempting to find quick fixes to reduce your IT spend, this doesn’t always translate to best practice. The latest Gartner® 10 Rules to Rapidly Reduce IT Spend offers a different perspective to help you avoid textbook mistakes – so you can hit your savings targets without disrupting your critical operations.”

– Don Kiernan
VP Sales & Marketing
(Telecom & Cloud Expense Management)

What’s Inside?

Alongside a detailed explanation of each rule, you’ll have access to key findings and strategic recommendations including:

  • Establish your cost reduction fundamentals by defining the specifics of the cost savings targets and the time frame for implementation.
  • Apply Gartner’s 10 rules of IT spend reduction to determine the types of actions, expenses and categories that will have the most immediate and/or largest impact.
  • Map out a plan to eliminate, reduce or suspend spend, and communicate it internally to IT, the business units (BUs) impacted and the CFO/CEO driving the reductions.
  • Minimize the long-term disruptions of cost cutting by clearly defining and assessing the potential consequences and risks associated with cutting costs in relation to supported business outcomes.
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10 Rules to Rapidly Reduce IT Spend, Shruthi Shankel, Robert Naegle, Sid Sahoo, 9 January 2024

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