The Basics Needed to Take Charge of the Technology Economy

• Transparency in order to accurately “size” IT and keep it cost-competitive and value-competitive

• Visibility to leverage the marketplace

• Competitiveness with the scale economics of your largest peers

• Agility in value and expense to quickly manage yield and return

• Constant/continuous monitoring and navigating from an outcome perspective:

• Continuous optimization and not just cost-cutting

• Leveraging new concepts such as the technology commons

• Striving for economic agility tuned to the needs of your business dynamics

• Making decisions based on an outcome model and not an input bias