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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

A clear parallel would be credit risk in Retail Banking, but something as simple as an estimate of potentially delinquent debtors is an inherently statistical figure (albeit one that may not depend on the output of a statistical model). However such estimates appear in a number of industries, sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly.

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