News - Reduce IT Costs and Improve Delivery?

The increasing pervasiveness of IT in business makes the costs of IT services, projects and infrastructure a continuing concern of management.

As few as 16% of IT projects Are judged to Be completely successful in terms of schedule, budget and delivered functionality. Despite decades of focus on utilization of project management techniques, the success rate for IT projects has remained virtually unchanged. Project cost overruns average more than 180%, schedule overruns more than 220%, while an average of only 61% of functionality and features are delivered.

Only 3% of Global 2000 CIO’s use Portfolio Management to manage enterprise IT.

The drop-off in infrastructure investment following Y2K Is resulting in technology environments that are inefficient, inflexible and increasingly unreliable.




			managing it For additional information and insight into how your company can benefit from better management of Information Technology, contact: The Cahaba Group, LLC IT Management Professional Services Birmingham Office 205-991-9300 Atlanta Office 404-245-3979	Reduce IT Costs and Improve Delivery? Facts The increasing pervasiveness of IT in business makes the costs of IT services, projects and infrastructure a continuing concern of management. As few as 16% of IT projects Are judged to Be completely successful in terms of schedule, budget and delivered functionality. Despite decades of focus on utilization of project management techniques, the success rate for IT projects has remained virtually unchanged. Project cost overruns average more than 180%, schedule overruns more than 220%, while an average of only 61% of functionality and features are delivered. Only 3% of Global 2000 CIO’s use Portfolio Management to manage enterprise IT. The drop-off in infrastructure investment following Y2K Is resulting in technology environments that are inefficient, inflexible and increasingly unreliable. MORE