Infrastructure Optimization: ITBM’s Last Mile
An ITBM Primer Infrastructure Optimization According to ITBM leader Apptio: “Modern IT leaders use facts to collaborate on the tradeoffs needed to maximize business value.
Monday, August 3, 2015
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CIOs: Eliminate Waste—Let 2015 Be Your Year of the Smart Cloud
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
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Technology Business Management: The CIO’s New Survival Imperative
Technology Business Management To our friends at the TBM conference: This question may sound nuts. When it comes to using software to manage costs, is IT
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Making IT Fit Like a Good Shoe, or, 10 Years Later, and RampRate Has a Long Way to Go!
IT services Re-posted from the Year 2000 “Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.” –
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Attention CIOs: A 2016 Budget Upside Surprise Awaits You
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
Friday, October 3, 2014
IT Purchase Decisions: Know Your Internal Buying Center
IT Purchase It isn’t news to say that purchasing outsourced IT services can be complex. Oftentimes, enterprises can get tied up in knots while trying
Monday, September 29, 2014
What’s Wrong with IT Infrastructure Sourcing [Infographic]?
CIOs constantly wrestle with five common infrastructure sourcing problems and finding the solutions is no easy task. IT Infrastructure Sourcing. This is complex stuff. It’s
Monday, September 29, 2014
eBay Measures Energy Consumption with Digital Service Efficiency
Digital Service Efficiency Though it’s well understood you can’t manage what you don’t measure, the vast majority of enterprises don’t track the energy efficiency of
Sunday, September 7, 2014