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Overcome the Challenges of Cloud Optimization & FinOps to Drive Business Value

CIO

This framework positions organizations to manage their cloud investments more effectively, driving increased accountability to maximize business value. In this article, I’ll explore common cloud optimization and FinOps challenges and strategies for overcoming them. Overcoming these challenges goes back to KPIs and OKRs.

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The Shift Beyond the Hype: Transitioning from Vanity Metrics to Authentic Business Objectives

Xebia

Introduction Among the sea of metrics, vanity numbers have often taken the spotlight, leaving many organizations lost in a world of misleading indicators and superficial gains. Plus, some of these vanity metrics gain significance when paired with a complementary KPI that provides a more realistic view of the business landscape.

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5 key metrics for IT success

CIO

Most companies think of failure as something they want to avoid, but really fast-changing organizations understand failures as a step towards success.” The end-user satisfaction metric’s strength lies in the fact that it touches all parts of the IT organization. There are a number of ways to measure value.

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Get AI in the hands of your employees

CIO

Stephen Franchetti, CIO of Samsara, a fleet management SaaS provider that went public in 2021, believes the only way to optimize your AI strategy (or any emerging technology strategy, in fact) is with a bottoms-up approach. We want to get the technology as close to our knowledge workers and subject matter experts as we can.

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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Balancing these factors is critical to good performance in Agile organizations. It needs continuous attention and must be built across the entire organization. We have specifically chosen the following five areas as they mirror the five main characteristics of Agile organizations, as elucidated in a landmark 2018 McKinsey paper.

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Are You Using a Cloud Experience to Boost Business Value?

CIO

Cloud-first strategy” became a cure-all for datacenter impediments, as well as an IT leader’s tentpole for digital transformation. More recently some organizations have reported diminishing returns from their public cloud implementations. Others conducted apples-to-apples comparisons of public cloud versus on-premises costs.

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PepsiCo transforms for the digital era

CIO

For any IT leader new to an organization, gaining employee trust is paramount — especially when, like PepsiCo’s Athina Kanioura, you’ve been brought in to transform the way work gets done. Is it possible to upskill all employees in a large organization to be digital experts? Not likely,” Powers says.

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