Businesses buy 100 million+ PCs annually—yet most workers use PCs for simple applications that require a fraction of their computing power. Start imposing hard limits on upgrade costs—rather than buying new computers and applications every time suppliers roll out new features. Negotiate contracts ensuring long-term useful- ness of your PC investments. If vendors balk, explore cheaper solutions, including bare-bones network PCs.
Also assess your data storage, which accounts for 50%+ of many companies’ IT expenditures—even though most saved data consists of employees’ e-mails and files that have little relevance to making products or serving customers.