Saturday, January 27, 2024

$2 Trillion Waste In IT Systems? What are we doing?











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Reducing data collection, storage, processing and use costs 
July 31, 2020 - McKinsey  Article

Updates on 18.11.2021






Waste and inefficiency in outdated government IT systems.

A recent BBC article has drawn attention to the extraordinary amount of wasted expenditure on outdated IT systems in government. The article, drawn from a Cabinet Office report entitled ‘Organising for Digital Delivery’, notes that the government’s use of outdated technology – with some systems being over thirty years old.
The price tag for keeping many outdated systems alive is an astonishing £2.3 billion per year – almost half of the government’s £4.7 billion annual IT expenditure.
28 September 2021

5 ways to avoid cloud waste
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
|AUGUST 26, 2020
If you don't use clouds correctly, you can still lose money. Here's how to avoid those costly mistakes.

Most Activities in Enterprise Software do not bring actual business value - Waste in Enterprise IT

10 August 2019




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Waste in Enterprise IT
10 August 2019


Data Centres typically generate a lot of heat - How to reduce energy waste?


As part of ‘Project Natick’, Microsoft has also acknowledged that data centres typically generate a lot of heat,

There are a few easy and relatively cheap steps you can make today to reduce energy waste within your data centre. 
July 19, 2018


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15 December 2012


The IT Revolution estimates that currently 20% of IT spend of $10 trillion can be the waste. This figure comes to $2 trillion. What are we doing?

http://itrevolution.com/manifesto/

Already IT spend analysis is a board room issue.

Leading consultants like Accenture are coming out with reports on IT cost control.

Productivity improvement and cost/waste reduction were taken up for investigation and advocacy by authors like Popendiecks.

Industrial engineers are into action. IIE has a blog IE in IT.

Collection of Articles/Reports dealing with IT Cost Reduction



    Boards Look for Efficiency With IT - November 2011
    http://www.directorship.com/boards-look-for-efficiency-with-it/
    IT Cost Reduction Initiatives:
    Cost Reduction in Imaging and Output infrastructure
    http://ievarunmitra.blogspot.in/2012/08/cutting-costs-and-maximizing-return-on.html
    IT Cost Reduction - Accenture insights  - 2012
    http://www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-it-cost-reductions-new-technologies.aspx
    Collection of articles on each opportunity mentioned in the Accenture article
    Information Technology Systems Cost Reduction
       


    Reducing the waste in the testing cycle
    http://mgmtvideo.blogspot.com/2012/09/reducing-waste-in-testing-cycle-youtube.html
    Federal Marketplace for Data Center Capacity - Webinar Video
    http://mgmtvideo.blogspot.com/2012/09/federal-marketplace-for-data-center.html

    Lean IT: Enabling and Sustaining Your Lean Transformation
    Google book
    http://books.google.co.in/books?id=3Si41XmQlXAC

    Lean Software Development and IT Enabled Services - Collection of Books and Articles - NRao
    http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/04/lean-software-development-and-it.html

Incorporating Deming, Goldratta Ideas in Computer Science - A Presentation
YouTube Video
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Ud. 27.1.2024, 6.1.2022

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