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Is Your It Department Necessary? You May Be Surprised By The Answer Business owners and CFOs of mid-sized companies quite often don?t have a clear understanding of what their IT department is doing for their business. Indeed, most just treat IT as a necessary line item on the P&L statement simply because they believe they have no choice if they are to stay competitive. Critical questions such as “Are we spending enough on our IT infrastructure?”, “Are we spending too much on our IT infrastructure”, or “Are we getting the productivity gains that we anticipated when we purchased that new software?” often go unanswered. Questions such as these are at the heart of your business? efficiency – and can be the most baffling. Educating yourself is, as is often the case, the best weapon to tackle these seemingly innocuous questions.

The first thing to realize is that running an IT department is hard work. Your IT staff is spending more time (and money) supporting your employees than ever. Many of the technologies are complex and take a long time to learn and master. The IT staff is under increasingly tighter budget constraints and their capabilities are limited. Despite all these …