Imagine you had to adjust funding for your priorities.  Regardless of why an adjustment needs to occur, which of the following would you prioritize first?

People44%

Process39%

Technology13%

None, these are always given equal priority and funding regardless of the situation3%

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Director in Manufacturing4 years ago

Generally I try to give people top priority. It would depend a lot on the division of spend. If my budget is 97% Salaries/benefits and 2% Technology and 1% Process…. And the budget cut is 15% in total, the only way to solve that equation is cut people. If my Technology budget was 50% of my total budget I would squeeze technology as hard as possible, then the remainder comes from people. I’ve never seen Process take a very large percentage of any budget so probably little room there to reduce costs

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Senior IT Manager in Government4 years ago

Seems like a no-brainer to me. Process and technology are absolutely worthless without the people to drive them.

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VP of Engineering in Software4 years ago

I would make sure we create and have a process in place. Of course, the process is built with people and technology in mind.

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