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Proving your worth: Strategies to validate and elevate your IT service department

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The following are strategies you can leverage as a team to change this attitude: Leveraging data for impact One key strategy is using data to demonstrate the service desk’s influence on your organization’s bottom line. To illustrate the real-world impact of these strategies, let’s focus on Wodonga TAFE. Managed IT Services

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5 tips for maximizing ROI of IT projects

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One of the most important parameters for measuring the success of any technology implementation is the return on investment (ROI). Providing a compelling ROI on technology initiatives also puts CIOs in a stronger position for securing support and funds from the business for future projects. Align projects with business goals.

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

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With greater scrutiny on margins and ROI, CIOs must spend wisely, making today’s economic environment a more difficult one for selling preemptive projects that don’t produce immediate ROI. Here are three strategies for getting it done. There’s a trick to this, and it’s one that, ultimately, your organization will thank you for.

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5 keys to optimizing ROI on your Cloud Center of Excellence

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Transforming culture: A cloud CoE must engage the security and risk groups within an organization to understand the hybrid landscape and ensure the identification and mitigation of risks. A cloud center of excellence (CoE) in an enterprise can make a big difference in the return on cloud investments.

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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

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And they want to know exactly how much return on investment (ROI) can be expected when IT leaders make technology-related changes. CFOs have grown comfortable with the traditional project-based approach, through which they believe they get a better handle on spend certainty and a better sense of ROI.

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The steep cost of a poor data management strategy

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Such is the case with a data management strategy. Without it, businesses incur steep costs, but the downside, or costs, are often unclear because calculating data management’s return on investment (ROI), or upside, is a murky exercise. Let’s look at how we can resolve this—while there is still time to do so.

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At a loss for data project ROI? Evaluate it like a product

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Today, Doug Laney, innovation fellow of data and analytics strategy at West Monroe, disputes Humby’s assertion on a technicality: “When you use a drop of oil, you can only use it one way at a time,” Laney says. Data is what economists would call a non-rival risk, non-depleting progenitor of assets,” Laney says.

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