-: When leaders are thinking about
IT cost optimization programs,
they need to think of the whole set of levers
in two dimensions.
One is efficiency,
and then the other is effectiveness,
and both are very, very critical.
Now, there are some levers that they will apply
which improve both the efficiency
as well as the effectiveness.
For example, if you're implementing DevOps
and CI/CD automation,
that improves the efficiency of the software engineers
but also improves the speed
by which the products reach the business.
However, there are some where there is a trade off.
For example, when the CIOs look
at their application landscape,
and they are looking to rationalize
some duplicative functionality,
that has an impact on the business which is using those,
and those are the right conversations to be had,
and you need to have the deep analysis done
as what is the impact on both the efficiency
as well as the effectiveness,
and is it worth, in your specific context,
to make that trade off?