Information technology (IT) departments must cut costs and justify expenditures in the face of shrinking budgets. To promote greater cost savings, it is important to look at IT through a new "lens." This article discusses four broad categories that can be evaluated to determine if IT resource alignment is appropriate and if savings can be achieved through change: (1) Services and infrastructure: retirement and consolidation; (2) Personnel: capital, training, research and development; (3) Evaluation of alternate technologies; and (4) Economies of scale. (Contains 5 endnotes.)