Finding IT`s Upside in the Downturn ( Page 1 of 2 ) Dan Gingras expected panic. Gingras, a former CIO at Bausch & Lomb and Watts Regulator Co. and now a partner at the consultancy Tatum LLC, frequently consults with CEOs and corporate boards on IT strategy. After the Wall Street fallout and the looming uncertainty following it, Gingras expected his clients to sound the alarm, particularly on IT spending. What he found surprised him: Instead of panicking, business leaders—while acknowledging the economic duress—saw the downturn as an opportunity to reassess their strategies. Priorities had to be reexamined, but the knives never came out to slice up their IT plans. “I’ve never [before] seen a time in my six years of consulting where people wanted to step back and assess things,” he says. But that’s what’s happening now.
The economy may be tanking, but that doesn’t mean the hopes and priorities of IT leaders are in a freefall.
