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Drive Budget Planning with the “IT Hierarchy of Needs”

The ROI Guy

The bad news is that even with this growth, most organizations annual IT budgets will remain below 2007 levels. For these solutions we see little pricing power for vendors, higher performance / capabilities at a lower cost year over year, and standardization / consolidation.

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B2B Marketplaces: A New Breed Takes On an Old Problem

Webbiquity

Vendors didn’t want to reveal pricing and specifications to their competitors, and in many cases buyers didn’t want their own competitors to be aware of what they were buying (as it could tip off competitors to new product designs or process improvements) or even the terms they were getting.

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

EMC is a premium-priced provider whose philosophy is to always go the extra mile to take care of the customer. That’s what Pitney Bowes did when a 2007 Postal Service rate increase prompted 430,000 calls from customers. Let’s say we implement a customer self-service portal as a way to reduce support costs. Of course not.

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