Years ago in graduate school, one of my classmates asked why most of the Accounting business examples we studied seemed to focus on...

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.

The next series of posts will discuss the best way to deal with an unpleasant situation: Who should be cut in your enterprise IT group due t

A few more checklist items to consider during Enterprise IT Layoffs or reductions: With ad-hoc teams and concentrating responsibilities,...

In the first blog we reviewed Email/calendars, data at rest, and Retaining Workflow and role records. Today we’ll cover.....

Part 1 of 2 Times of downsizing can create significant legal vulnerabilities. Downsizing does not relieve a company of its responsibility...

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...

Dealing with the Unthinkable - 6 Questions Executives need answers for today!

The current economic crisis makes any investment spending difficult. Previous posts discussed how Enterprise IT will see little capital...

Few IT groups calculate their return on assets for data and other intangible assets. Now is a good time to do that

In the 21 Century managers now have to consider, plan, invest, and realize gains in intangible assets like customers and enterprise acquired

Our new series of blogs - Getting from Here to There. a must-read for anyone concerned with getting a return from their data