Category: Cost Control & Budget Optimization

Shadow IT Is Draining Your Budget—and You Don’t Even Know It 

What It Is & What To Do About It  As enterprises accelerate digital transformation, departments often adopt their own tools and services to stay agile. While this fosters innovation, it

From Firefighting to Forecasting: How Predictive IT Financial Management Puts You in Control 

IT financial management has long been reactive—addressing budget overruns after they happen and explaining cost spikes after the damage is done. In today’s fast-paced, cloud-driven world, that approach no longer

Turning IT from Cost Center to Strategic Business Partner 

For decades, IT was largely viewed through a financial lens—as a necessary but costly function. Budgets were scrutinized, and value was often measured by how efficiently IT could “keep the

7 Tips for Better Cloud Cost Management

The cloud delivery model has come a long, long way since the turn of the decade. Back then companies were worried about public cloud security and the levels of availability

Service Costing: Can Your Organization Still Afford Not to Do It?

For the last decade, many corporate IT organizations have been operating under the mantra of “doing (or delivering) more with less” – with a focus on reducing costs and increasing

Worried About Introducing IT Chargeback? Then Try “Showback”

If your IT department is like the majority of others, your business-as-usual (BAU) costs will likely be three times the value of your project-based – or change/innovation-focused – IT spend.

Why Does IT Cost What it Does? It’s Time to Care!

The majority of medium and large organizations understand the benefits of employing IT service delivery and support best practices – to improve across the IT management trifecta of “quality, speed,

Measuring IT Success: Should Your IT Cost What it Currently Does?

Your average corporate IT organization will employ a portfolio of metrics to firstly understand (and report upon) performance, and secondly – ideally – to identify and drive both service and