Boards rein-in spending on information systems .
Now in its 14th year, the IT User Survey 1999 also found that this was reflected in managers' expectations on increases in IT budgets. Diane Finn, head of membership at the National Computing Centre, believes that this spending slowdown is largely a legacy from the Year 2000 problem. Board directors are now looking very closely at the cost of IT and measuring it against business objectives and return on investment to ensure that 'best-value' is being obtained. IT managers are having some tough questions being asked of them at present. Some of the Year 2000 projects have few tangible benefits for the IT department to show and it is hard to demonstrate just what the investment has achieved.