Gartner：通过智能支出实现IT战略成本优化（2023）（英文版）（10页）.pdf

1、Robert Naegle,Stewart Buchanan18 April 2023Executive Essentials:Develop a StrategicApproach to IT Cost Reduction,Optimization and InvestmentGartner ResearchGartner,Inc.|G00787321Page 1 of 7Executive Essentials:Develop a StrategicApproach to IT Cost Reduction,Optimization andInvestmentPublished 18 Ap

2、ril 2023-ID G00787321-6 min readBy Analyst(s):Robert Naegle,Stewart BuchananInitiatives:Technology Finance,Risk and Value Management;Executive Leadership:Strategic Cost OptimizationCIOs that take a proactive approach to strategic cost managementwill enable their organizations to not just avoid deep

3、cuts in thetough times,but also to outperform their peers as they optimizeand reallocate funds to the most valuable business outcomes.AnalysisMake Strategic Cost Optimization an Ongoing DisciplineAs CIOs strive to maximize technologies impact on the business they must establish acommon language and

4、structured approach to cost management within IT and withbusiness partners.That is,to reduce spend when required but also to proactively optimizethe performance of current resources and,ultimately,invest the resulting gains to optimizebusiness impact.CIOs must build a proactive,programmatic and stra

5、tegic costoptimization discipline(see Figure 1).Unlike traditional reactive cost cutting actions,strategic cost optimization recommends a framework of purposeful activities designedthat are always driving toward maximizing business value.(See Note 1.)Gartner,Inc.|G00787321Page 2 of 7Figure 1:Strateg

6、ic Cost OptimizationCut/Reduce Spend Redirect ExpendituresGiven the rate of change,there will always be things that should be reviewed,rationalizedand even cut from a technology budget.Thinking of cost cutting simply as a reactiveaction required to address severe business risks(downturns in the econ