This is the final piece in our Cutting Enterprise IT blog series. Although the title is a bit "Tongue in Cheek", we are deadly serious in...

Enterprise IT controls less than half of enterprise IT spend. Many acquisition decisions are made in enterprise IT, funded by operations,...

In our last post, we suggested the creation of 6 lists to help identify employees who must be retained. The next actions listed below are...

Q2 2020 Warning, risk of bad decisions ahead.

Layoffs only account for part of Enterprise IT Reductions in Force. Added to regular layoff are employees who are suddenly not able to...

Reductions in enterprise workforces are happening. The most visible initial reductions are already happening to front-line service...

Our earlier blogs talked about the current crisis driving changes (e.g. massive migration to remote work, supply chain disruption, and...

IT management knows projects that are: 8) “Must have” (legal, regulatory, competition-in-your-face, public-facing) 9) “Technology...

Continued from part 1 - If you read part 1 - you'll have identified the obvious projects that can be cut. Now lets the move on to the...

Enterprise IT can consider a path suggested in a previous Ekalore Blog to cut the budget now – Cut Big, Cut Now. Now let’s look at how to...

After a few days of working on Coronavirus-19 actions Enterprise Information Technology (IT) has learned more lessons. Here are several...

This is a continuation of our analyst note from yesterday where our analyst stated that following the first reactions to the Coronavirus...

In previous my previous posts I listed action items for ‘today’ and the lessons that people are likely to learn implementing them. Now...

Remote working may prove to be problematic. That's because access to complex applications (like Solidworks for engineers, PLM software...

Make sure that training and “how to’s” for your enterprise are sufficient for the Office365 or GoogleTools that are now in more use as...

Actions to do today for network and infrastructure managers: make sure you know what your monitoring (checking the network) tools are...

Actions to do today for enterprise IT management: 1. make sure you know if your newly remote organization is being bit by these access...

This is the start of posts relating to my previous “Do It Today” note on Enterprise Information Technology (IT) and the Novel Corona...

Part 2 - our analyst discusses typical reactions to financial shocks - cutting people and the implications

Today's circumstances have moved major universities to send students to “learn remotely” and to shut down campuses. Businesses and...