Blueprint Overview: Cut Cost Through Effective IT Category Planning
An IT category plan identifies the most significant opportunities for IT to cut costs by using a well thought out approach to vendor negotiations that is not reactive or ad hoc. The IT category plan provides focus to identify how your IT vendor spend is allocated across hardware, software, telecomm, IaaS/PaaS, professional services, and security categories. This categorization provides insight into how your IT budget is spent among your vendors in these categories. This insight gives us an indication or direction to cost-cutting opportunities.