Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Companies love to stretch out their investments in existing technology as long as possible, a policy whose faulty logic I recently rediscovered in my role as CIO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered.

Technology 15

Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Yet workplace training is more necessary than ever, as technology and globalization continue to change the types of jobs that are available. We need to adopt something similar to a “total cost of ownership” (TCO) analysis. Now common in industry, TCO considers both direct and indirect costs over time.

Metrics 11

Metrics TCO Training Cost-Benefit Analysis 11

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs.

TCO 87

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 87