It may seem there's little you can do directly to reduce the impact of the current economic turbulence on your organization. Although you can't affect the market, there is a great deal that the smartest IT leaders are doing, at both an operational and strategic level, to ensure that they not only survive, but thrive – and come out of the economic downturn in better shape than your competitors.

This handbook distills those actions for you, laying the foundations of a clear, strategic action plan for the coming year. There will undoubtedly be pressures on you to:

• Redirect, defer, or reduce planned capital expenditure on IT infrastructure
• Stop or shelve transformation programs
• Drive down operational expenditure
• Improve the way you use existing assets
• Freeze or reduce headcount

At the same time you have to remain highly efficient and operationally effective. Imagine though, you could show the board that there are ways for you to keep strengthening your operations and driving transformation programs forward-- without spending more than you currently do.

Read this guide to learn how to do just that.