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Features

• Outsourcing: Crippling Mistakes IT Departments Make

  Researchers at the University of Tennessee have studied a variety of outsourcing deals-from IT and back-office work to manufacturing and logistics-and identified the most common mistakes organizations make when partnering with an external provider.

• 7 ways to cut your software costs during the economic downturn

  It's official: IT budgets, once so resilient in the face of three years of worsening economic news, aren't immune to the downturn after all.

• Five top spending priorities for hard times

  No company is immune from the economy's ebb and flow. So it's no surprise that, in the face of a fearsome downturn, IT shops are scrambling to figure out where they should cut.