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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
Honor your best senior team members - Apply for the CIO Ones to Watch Award
Get well-earned public recognition for your top up-and-coming team members, your IT organization and your enterprise. Award winners will be announced, publicized and feted in May 2010, great timing to help attract new IT recruits to your company.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »November 07, 2007 — CIO —
CIOs are doing more outsourcing, according to research recently concluded for CIO's 2008 "State of the CIO" issue.
The numbers show that 46 percent of IT leaders say that they outsource or otherwise contract out between 1 and 10 percent of the IT function, up from 41 percent last year. The number of IT executives who outsource nothing decreased to 9 percent this year from 15 percent last year.
CIOs are doing more outsourcing this year.
| What percent of your total IT labor is provided by outsourcers or contract service providers? | ||
|---|---|---|
| Percent of IT labor outsourced | 2008 | 2007 |
| 0 | 9% | 15% |
| 1 to 10 | 46% | 41% |
| 11 to 20 | 18% | 18% |
| 21 to 30 | 10% | 11% |
| 31 to 40 | 6% | 4% |
| 41 to 50 | 2% | 3% |
| 51 to 60 | 2% | 4% |
| 61 to 70 | 2 | 1% |
| 71 to 80 | 2% | 1% |
| 81 to 90 | 1% | 1% |
| 91 to 100 | 1% | 1% |
| Don't Know | 1% | 0% |
Source: 2008 State of the CIO survey of 558 heads of IT. The full results of the State of the CIO will be published Dec. 15.