CIOs Spending on IT

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One of the easiest levers for CIOs to pull when they need to save money in the IT budget is to push off the purchase of new hardware from one budget cycle to the next. And, the biggest hardware lever to pull is typically the one for new desktop and laptop PCs for end users, because of the sheer scale involved.


On October 6, TechRepublic polled its 90-member panel of U.S. IT executives and asked, “Has your IT department done anything to delay its PC refresh cycle in 2009?” The jury, made up of the first 12 respondents, came through with three only “Yes” votes and nine “No” votes.

It was a surprise that this number wasn’t higher, since U.S. organizations have been under intense budget pressure in 2009 from the stagnant economic climate. The fact that only 25% of the jury reported a delay in PC upgrades could also mean that some of them have already used this lever in the last couple years and can’t keep doing it indefinitely, or it could mean that many of them don’t have a strict policy for refreshing end user PCs. However, as you’ll see in the comments below, it also means that there are a bunch of IT departments that are reconsidering how they handle PC deployments altogether.

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