Forty seven percent of ICT executives plan for the recession to continue well into 2010.

CIOs who survived 2009, during which IT budgets dropped by 8 percent on average, don’t expect to see business recover or IT dollars return immediately in 2010. They do, however, intend to makeover IT departments as leaner, more lightweight entities ready to respond to business needs, according to Gartner research released Tuesday.

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In these trying economic conditions, CIOs must utilise all available strategies and avenues to deliver more with less.

Much has been said about best practices in IT management to tide over the economic downturn. Under ever-increasing pressure, many CIOs are now looking at IT Infrastructure management as an effective means to drive business transformation. While most organisations are keen to join in, there are some strategies that may be employed to get quick wins.

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IT companies reinvent themselves, but Apple reinvents entire markets. While the computer industry in the 1990s thrived as corporations re-engineered business processes to incorporate IT, this decade has seen technology truly become part of mainstream culture and commerce via the internet and ever-cheaper and smaller computing devices.

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