How to concvince business that IT is not a cost center?
Apart from many cost cuttings that have taken at my workplace(a non-IT, financial company) for past 18 months, something that has affected developers like me directly is that new projects have been shelved and few existing projects are being outsourced(have been told that outsourcing makes the cost variable). All these sometimes at the cost of layoffs. I sometimes have to justify business managers the need to have new projects or to continue in house development of software. I have never been in this situation before and find it extremely difficult to convince business managers who think that IT dept is just a cost center (which it is...thinking in a traditional sense).
If you guys have something to share that would be good. Thanks.
How to concvince business that IT is not a cost center?
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Apart from many cost cuttings that have taken at my workplace(a non-IT, financial company) for past 18 months, something that has affected developers like me directly is that new projects have been shelved and few existing projects are being outsourced(have been told that outsourcing makes the cost variable). All these sometimes at the cost of layoffs. I sometimes have to justify business managers the need to have new projects or to continue in house development of software. I have never been in this situation before and find it extremely difficult to convince business managers who think that IT dept is just a cost center (which it is...thinking in a traditional sense).
If you guys have something to share that would be good. Thanks.