Tough Times, Tough Choices, Smart IT Plans by EMA

An ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) White Paper
Prepared for UC4
The recent economic gloom has created a troubling paradox in IT management across a broad swath of industries. An EMA research report found that 74% of CIOs must maintain or reduce IT budgets over the next two years.

Naturally, businesses do not relax service expectations despite shrinking budgets. As the recession wears on, the options dwindle for satisfying these apparently incompatible objectives. With each “red pencil” pass through the budget spreadsheets yielding fewer cost reduction candidates, layoffs loom as the final alternative. With each layoff, the organization pushes increasingly valuable IT expertise out the door, thereby reducing its ability to compete.

It is not too late and never too early to take an approach that resolves the paradox...

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