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A Checklist for Cost Optimization
12 May 2009
 
Michael Smith   Richard Hunter   Barbara Gomolski  

A stepwise approach to cost optimization can save time and improve outcomes.




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Pages: 10






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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

1.0
    
 Showing Value for Money
2.0
    
 When IT's Room Is Clean, It's Time to Clean the House
3.0
    
 Frame What IT Does in Terms of Business Performance
4.0
    
 Cost Optimization Must Start With a Service View
5.0
    
 Develop the IT Services Catalog in Collaboration With Your Business Customers
6.0
    
 Work With the Business to Identify Which Initiatives, Services and Service Levels Must Be Preserved, and Which Ones May Be Scaled Back
7.0
    
 Cost Optimization for New IT Initiatives


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Table 1.  
 Common Techniques for Reducing IT Costs
 

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Figure 1. 
 Two Types of IT Service Catalogs
 

Figure 2. 
 Business Case Development Methodology
 



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