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CIO Vacancy: Must Bring Own Crystal Ball Build Shared Services: If a time machine that takes you back a year is invented, the most profitable use is probably gambling – Leicester City at 5000-1, some powerball tickets, etc. But selling it to CIOs planning shared services IT budgets could be a close second. Each year,… Read More »Build Your Shared Services
June 22, 2016
A Familiar Tale I recently heard a familiar tale from the CIO of a Fortune company: “We don’t have a repeatable or accurate cost allocation model that can be used to reflect the true cost of computing services consumption back to our lines of business. Quantifying a workload’s owner/size/scope and forecasting the growth profile and… Read More »CIOs: Eliminate Waste—Let 2015 Be Your Year of the Smart Cloud
January 18, 2015
IT budget optimization You’ve armed yourself with the latest IT “power tools” – ITSM, e.g., ServiceNow, ITBM, e.g., Apptio – and are starting to get real traction. Better business user satisfaction, better cost transparency. All good. So what’s the next act? How can you harness these great tools to ring the cash register in 2016 and accelerate funding of… Read More »Attention CIOs: A 2016 Budget Upside Surprise Awaits You
October 3, 2014