Thought Leadership Series - Educating for Excellence The Challenges of Managing IT Spend

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* 1. How large is your organization?

1-500 employees

501-1,500 employees

1,501-5,000 employees

5,001-9,999 employees

10,000+ employees

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* 2. What industry best describes your organization?

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* 3. How much of your company's total spend is IT related?

less than 10%

11%-25%

26%-50%

over 50%

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* 4. In the upcoming fiscal year, do you expect your IT spend to...

Increase

Decrease

Stay the same

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* 5. Is your IT spend typically done on an as-needed-basis by departments, or is it standardized (e.g.,the same laptops, software, thumb drives, etc.) across the organization to leverage purchasing power for increased savings?

Department by Department

Somewhere in-between

Unified and tightly managed

Please explain

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* 6. How much of your IT spend is standardized across your organization?

less than 25%

25%-50%

more than 50%

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* 7. What prevents you from unifying IT across the organization?

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* 8. Would you like to have more visibility into IT spend at the departmental level?

Yes

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* 9. Would you like to have more control over IT spend?

Yes

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* 10. What are the biggest obstacles you’ve encountered in managing your IT spend?

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* 11. Is your organization aligned to efficiently manage corporate budget guidelines?

Yes

Please add your comments

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* 12. How are corporate guidelines enforced for IT spend?

Electronically

Manually

Please add your comments...

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* 13. Does your organization currently transact on one or more IT vendor websites?

Yes

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* 14. What do you like/dislike about transacting IT spend on vendor websites?

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* 15. Do you update your purchasing catalogs daily to reflect price and configuration changes?

Yes

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* 16. How interested would you be in learning best practices in IT spend management to increase savings?

	1 not interested	2 slightly interested	3 somewhat interested	4 interested	5 very interested
On a scale of 1-5 (1 not interested - 5 very interested).	On a scale of 1-5 (1 not interested - 5 very interested). 1 not interested	On a scale of 1-5 (1 not interested - 5 very interested). 2 slightly interested	On a scale of 1-5 (1 not interested - 5 very interested). 3 somewhat interested	On a scale of 1-5 (1 not interested - 5 very interested). 4 interested	On a scale of 1-5 (1 not interested - 5 very interested). 5 very interested

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* 17. Please enter your contact information in the fields below:

Name: *

Company: *

Address 1:

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