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The End of Centralized IT?
IT Leaders are under more intense pressure than ever before to perform and deliver for their businesses. Is a centralized or decentralized organisational structure the key to helping CIOs manage and respond to the ever-changing pressures they face?
Tough choices, steady nerves and smart decisions: how business leaders can step up to the plate in 2021
Finding the right level of digital transformation by improving service levels while reducing costs will be critical to enable enterprises to grow in challenging times.
How Scenario Planning Can Revolutionize Your Budgeting
What costs would acquiring asset XYZ cause? What value could be created through that acquisition? How would reducing the budget spend on any IT service affect the value chain?
Where and how to find cost-cutting opportunities in an economic downturn
23 % of IT expenses come from cloud costs – so why not focus on this chunk as the target to save costs immediately and deliver the results the CFO is calling for?
The innovation tightrope – balancing cost-cutting with cloud investment
How to gain gain a transparent view of costs versus business value generated. Is cloud the best solution or in-house legacy systems?
3 Quick Wins of IT Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
A lot of companies are still struggling to optimize their IT cost management. Read on our blog why it makes sense to implement IT financial management and how you can immediately benefit from proper IT financial management when it comes to cost control and budgeting.
Turn Enterprise IT Cost Reduction Into a Growth Strategy
What does optimal IT cost control look like? Find out what you can do to optimize your ITFM and why gaining an overview over the cost-to-service flow is one step towards improving your service finances.
How to Effectively Manage IT Budgeting
We can differentiate between three main approaches regarding IT budget allocation. There is the centralized approach, the decentralized approach and the iterative approach. We will have a look at each and assess their advantages and disadvantages.
3 Aspects of ITFM: IT Service Catalog, Automated TCO, and Consumption
Read on our blog, which reliable approach towards the financial controlling of IT services on a company-level works for the hidden champions of mid-sized companies as well as multinational global companies.
The 4 Essential KPIs to Measure the Success of Your ITFM
We have identified four key metrics for ITFM solutions that can help CIOs and CFOs on they journey to more efficient IT financial management.
Transfer Pricing in Global Businesses
Why transfer pricing is becoming more and more important for international corporations and what's required for legally watertight transfer pricing for shared services.
4 Tips for Modern IT Budget Planning
These days, companies face unprecedented challenges when it comes to sustainable, future-proof IT budget planning. How do you get your IT budget planning ready for any crisis without merely cutting costs?
Benchmarking is important. But how to do it right?
When discussing strategic controlling and financial management – both inside and outside of IT – one of the terms that keeps coming up is benchmarking. We have gathered all essential information on benchmarking and how you do it properly for the best outcome for your enterprise.
What are the 3 Dimensions of Forecasts?
Find out how effective forecasting allows you to work with difficult situations by enabling budget adjustments, damage avoidance, and the leveraging of hidden potentials.
Securing liquidity in a downturn by assessing cloud and legacy IT spend
In an uncertain and pressurised economic environment, many organisations will be faced with the challenge of making immediate IT cost savings, whilst still being expected to drive digital initiatives forward.
Scramble Mode – navigating the data storm with real-time accuracy
Real-time data analytics is the only viable option to ensure a holistic and current view of the cost vs value landscape. Especially in these stormy times. Ronnie Wilson, Group Executive Vice President at Serviceware explains.
Message for the C-Suite, Part 3: 10 Key Learnings for Driving Revenue Growth in Business Transformation
Operating cost management is not just about doing the same for less but about doing more and better for less.
Fighting Back in 2020, with Data in Your Corner
Stick or twist? COVID-19 combined with a likely no-deal Brexit is seeing unprecedented times for UK businesses. What’s the best approach to take to ensure the future success of your business?
Who's the #1 provider for IT and Enterprise Service Management SaaS and software?
Hundreds of IT budget managers have decided: When it comes to IT, SaaS and Enterprise Service Management, Serviceware is at the top of the vendor selection matrix.
4-steps to future-proof your technology spend in the manufacturing industry
The manufacturing industry has been forced to innovate at speeds never seen since the industrial revolution. Read more about why the need to digitally transform has never been more crucial.
#1 provider for Technology Cost and Resource Optimization
Independent research company Research in Action (RIA) has named Serviceware as a market leader in the field of Technology Cost and Resource Optimization (TCRO). Serviceware also received top marks for its solution range and price/performance ratio. RIA interviewed 1,500 IT managers worldwide.
Personnel planning goes hand in hand with financial planning
In particular, we focus on the following areas:
- Headcount and FTE planning
- Driver-based planning
- Control information for further sales, e.g. in the service sector
Signals instead of noise: How does good reporting lead to the right decisions?
This webinar focuses on the questions:
- How to recognize the real signals and distinguish them from general noise?
- How to distinguish between a natural variance and an important trend?
- How to ensure that dashboards and reports trigger results-oriented action?
