Do you remember the Warlord's of Sanistan? Classic supply chain problem. Also a problem of political will on the part of BU CIOs. Stock-outs (down-time) were WAAAAY more costly (in terms of BU CIO political capital) than was exponentially increasing SAN costs. I bet AI could have helped us model that better, I recall that the math actually got really complicated with LUNs and other TLAs that got in the way of managing that cost more effectively.
This is a really interesting capital allocation problem.
- Most companies manage top-line tech budget rather than thinking about marginal value versus marginal investment. So they underinvest in tech.
- In this world, every dollar of inefficiency steals a dollar from investment -- so fighting the warlords of Sanistan to drive up storage utilization is important!
- You could imagine another world were tech budgets are constrained based on investment opportunities, not top line number -- so inefficiency is less brutal
- But it still matters -- because inefficiency pushes up the cost of every unit of functionality, maker fewer projects accretive
I worry, when when it comes to tech ROI, we are like the drunk looking for his keys underneath the streetlight even though he dropped them across the street. ROI is hard to measure and cost is easier, so we focus on cost.
Do you remember the Warlord's of Sanistan? Classic supply chain problem. Also a problem of political will on the part of BU CIOs. Stock-outs (down-time) were WAAAAY more costly (in terms of BU CIO political capital) than was exponentially increasing SAN costs. I bet AI could have helped us model that better, I recall that the math actually got really complicated with LUNs and other TLAs that got in the way of managing that cost more effectively.
This is a really interesting capital allocation problem.
- Most companies manage top-line tech budget rather than thinking about marginal value versus marginal investment. So they underinvest in tech.
- In this world, every dollar of inefficiency steals a dollar from investment -- so fighting the warlords of Sanistan to drive up storage utilization is important!
- You could imagine another world were tech budgets are constrained based on investment opportunities, not top line number -- so inefficiency is less brutal
- But it still matters -- because inefficiency pushes up the cost of every unit of functionality, maker fewer projects accretive
I worry, when when it comes to tech ROI, we are like the drunk looking for his keys underneath the streetlight even though he dropped them across the street. ROI is hard to measure and cost is easier, so we focus on cost.