Re: ?regarding MIS budgets

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One of the big mags (ComputerWorld or Fortune, I think) has an annual
review/rating of top 500 IS departments. Lists size, budget, percent of
sales, and more. jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "James W. Kilgore" <eMail@James-W-Kilgore.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: ?regarding MIS budgets


> Mark,
>
> It's an old rule of thumb (No flaming for any reference to the movie
> "Boondock Saints" pls) that IS including
> staff/hardware/software/training/etc. max is 2% of sales.
>
> Mark Allen wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know where I could find some "industry" standards for MIS
budget
> > as a % of a companies total budget, a % of total sales, etc?  I know I
have
> > seen these kind of numbers before broken down by company size, industry
etc
> > but can't seem to lay my hands on it.
> >
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