Developing, presenting, benchmarking, or defending information technology spending or IT employee headcount levels can be a difficult exercise. Our 2008/2009 IT Spending, Staffing, and Technology Trends study makes the job easier by providing hundreds of useful ratios, statistics, and other IT cost metrics for IT/IS budgeting, staff planning, hardware and outsourcing trend analysis, and understanding the adoption rates and cost/benefits of new technologies.
IT spending and staffing data is provided by industry sector and organization size for businesses and governmental organizations in North America, based on our annual in-depth survey of over 200 IT executives.
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For IT decision-makers, this 25 chapter study provides current metrics and unbiased data for the following uses:
* Benchmarking and justifying an organization's IT operational and IT capital budget spend levels as well as IT staffing levels by comparing them with those of organizations of similar size and industry sector. Over 80 specific IT support cost management ratios and other metrics are provided, allowing IT executives to highlight opportunities to reduce IT costs and optimize IT expense levels.