Save Or Spend?

摘要

This will be a year of tough choices for business-technology managers. After years of unprecedented support for their investments, IT executives face mounting pressure to pick and pay for only those technologies that offer a quick and measurable payback. And most will need to do so with budgets that are at best equal to what they had last year. Uncertainty about when the recession will end has put a stop to steady increases in IT budgets. In InformationWeek Research's Outlook 2002 study, based on a survey of 300 IT executives completed last month, 33% of respondents expect to increase their IT budgets this year, while 17% will decrease them and half will spend the same amount as last year. Looking back, InformationWeek Research data shows that IT executives in the recent past had been increasingly bullish about investments on the eve of each new year. In last year's survey, 72% planned increases and just 5% were cutting IT spending. For 2000, 62% planned to increase spending, and 54% planned bigger budgets for 1999.