[NAC] IT budget (was 'no subject')

Kent McLean kentmclean at mindspring.com
Mon Sep 1 16:16:01 EDT 2003


George wrote:
> I'm a senior Information Technology (IT) practioner who's
> just been through a second year of having an already lean
> [proposed] IT capital budget reduced by 75% annually,...

Shut down the servers for a day, then ask each department
head how much they'd pay to have the servers back on-line.
Total up the numbers, add 10%, then pass that number on
to the CFO and let him know that's what your budget is.

When it's approved, bring the servers back on-line.

HTH,
Kent





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