Chargeback makes a comeback
Chargeback, once derided by sceptical technology chiefs as flaky management theory is being touted as a possible saviour of hi-tech, reports Australian IT.
As workforces decline, IT will increasingly become decentralised, merging with other parts of the business such as finance and marketing, industry experts say.
"IT people will have to wear two hats," Frost and Sullivan security and services industry analyst James Turner says. "Chargeback is a pointer to the way technology is going."
Roadmap for best practice
The UK`s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has set out the future roadmap for ITIL, its best practice guidance on IT service management.
According to an eGov monitor report, the OGC has confirmed that it will restructure the core ITIL library, releasing a series of publications in four tranches from next year, as part of a major update.
The first tranche will be largely Web-based products, including process maps and core ITIL definitions, which are scheduled for delivery by the end of March next year.
Compliance spending to hit $15.5b
Business-technology professionals spend nearly one day a week dealing with industry- and government-related issues, according to InformationWeek. AMR Research expects compliance-related spending to hit nearly $15.5 billion this year.
The cost for a typical company is estimated at $500 000.
Regulatory compliance is influencing security practices. Of the 2 540 US business-technology and security professionals who participated in the 2005 Global Information Security Survey, an editorial research product of InformationWeek and management-consulting and technology-services company Accenture, more than half report that government regulations have pressured their company to adopt a more-structured approach to information security.
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