Guest 1: Martin J. Gomberg
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, A&E Television Networks
Guest 2: Charlie McMahon
Title: Vice President of IT and Chief Technology Officer, Tulane University
With money tight, IT departments in all sorts of organizations are looking for efficiencies and making systematic efforts to reduce non-productive redundancies. In addition to saving money, a hoped for byproduct is that a successful rationalization exercise will also remove disincentives and barriers to shared services, find reasonable levels of sourcing, improve the interoperability of applications, and optimize the delivery of services. Sounds like a tall order… What does it take to get IT rationalization done the first time and then keep at it? Is this a fundamental change, or will things go back to business as usual, once the economy improves?