Skip to content

Lawrence Hecht

Transforming Information Into Knowledge

  • Home
  • Categories
    • Events and panels
    • Miscellaneous
      • Miscellaneous (personal)
      • Miscellaneous (professional)
    • The New Stack
      • Published in The New Stack Update
      • Full article from The New Stack
      • Snippet of The New Stack article
      • No longer in TNS site
  • About the Author
Search
Close menu
  • About the Author
  • Events and panels
  • Miscellaneous
  • The New Stack
work@lawrencehecht.info +1 646 734 3242

Lawrence Hecht

Transforming Information Into Knowledge

Search Toggle menu

Tag: IT spending and budgets

spending on custom/bespoke software increases without putting pressure on IT budgets
January 9, 2020February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Bespoke Software Development Spending Pops.

Efficiencies achieved because of SaaS and open-source-reliant infrastructure have been redirected to innovative software projects.

centralization of IT decision-making
May 21, 2019February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

IT Spending: Top Down vs. Decentralized Decision Making

Fifty-three percent of IT leaders made significant changes to their IT operating model or organization in the last two years, and another 37 percent are in the process of making changes according to the aforementioned survey.

Executives feel more confident that they are equipped to handle security risks
February 21, 2019February 14, 2025Full article from The New Stack, No longer in TNS site

Information Security Spending: Don’t Be Fooled by Overconfidence

Spending on information security continues to increase, but those gains may decelerate as companies become more confident in their security posture. Maybe too confident. Although many reports show that cybersecurity is a top driver of technology spending, Scale Venture Partners’ recent survey of 300 executives […]

IT Budget Allocations
December 2, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Contrarian Look at Software Spending

Over the past months, we’ve seen several blogs saying “cloud is eating software” instead of “software is eating the world.” There’s now data to back up that claim. Looking at the 2017 SIM IT Trends Study, software as a percentage of the entire IT budget may have peaked at […]

average % of IT spend by cost pool
November 23, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

The Software Budget’s Appetite Kept in Check by the Bottom Line

Application support consumes more internal labor spend than application development on average, despite generally higher salaries for application developers than for support personnel.

IT organizational structure
May 16, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Don’t Be Afraid of Your Shadow IT, Yet

By 2020, half of all IT spending at large enterprises with digital business aspirations will occur at the business-unit level.

© 2025 Lawrence Hecht.