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Advice from procurement: How to evaluate and propose new IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

As the world continues to experience economic uncertainty, IT leaders look to tighten budgets, consolidate tools and resources, and generally become more risk-averse when evaluating new investments. Consider your company scorecard: Your procurement team has a scorecard with clear metrics to evaluate purchase decisions.

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

Of course the problem is then that Financial Reports (or indeed most Management Reports) are not set up to cope with plus or minus figures, so typically one of £12.4 By the time that people who need to take decisions based on such information are in the loop, the inherent uncertainty of the prediction may have disappeared.

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