Six months into the year, and mindful of the credit crunch, we've set the challenge of out-turning 10% less than last years budget on IT - with inflation running at 4% that's 14% of efficiencies.
When we started looking at this we thought there would be carnage, but do you know what? In reality it is driving a bunch of sensible and reasonably straightforward projects to achieve specific cost savings. Applications will be consolidated. Rack space will be reduced via vm ware. Why not set yourself the 14% challenge - you may be surprised what it throws up.
We're also targetting the same efficiencies next year - and again, although we thought it would be extremely tough we are already coming up with ideas. Watch this space.