The Strategic CIO’s Playbook

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Strategic CIOs must take an active leadership role at the centre of the business, so their companies can benefit fully from the latest digital innovations and processes.

Therefore, it’s pivotal that they partner with line of business to enable business transformation through Hybrid IT. But this involves moving beyond the typical ROI process, with its focus on cutting costs or boosting operational efficiency.

How Should Strategic CIOsPartner with the Business?

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Source: IDG Research Survey 2018

Source: IDG Research Survey 2018

The CIO’s Spending Battle Business functions currently control the majority of tech investments. But CIOs see this changing as they increasingly help the business execute new ideas quickly, create new products and services faster, and understand where technology can innovate, automate and transform the business.

of technology investments arecontrolled by business functions62%

…But CIOs believe this will fall to just over half within the next three years53 %

The key to success for financing hybrid IT is to employ strong IT governance. Consequently, it’s good practice to:

Improve customer experience

Grow the business

Increase cybersecurity protections

Improving profitability

Optimise worker productivity

Improve organisations’ ability to attract and retain talent

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The Role of Consumption-Based ITAdopting a flexible consumption model for IT services is a key

enabler for achieving business-centric results.

UK-based CIOs are leading the charge in Europe by moving their on-premise IT infrastructures to a consumption-based model. One

that delivers flexibility and scalability, whilst lowering risk and operational costs.

44%of UK organisations have

moved at least one portion of their on-premise IT infrastructure to a

consumption-based model

41%have moved their

entire on-premise infrastructure to consumption-based IT

Financing Hybrid IT

How HPE Can AssistUnderstanding the right technology platform for your workloads is a big part of understanding Hybrid IT so that you can deploy it effectively.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise can help you find the right mix of Hybrid IT - public or private cloud, modern consumption-based comput-ing, or traditional on-premise. By deploying the full range of hybrid cloud technologies, you can successfully meet your business transformation goals.

Source: HPE, How to finance hybrid IT

Source: IDG Research Survey 2018

What’s Driving Technology Spending?Gone are the days of IT for IT’s sake. For today’s CIOs, the factors driving tech spending are overwhelmingly business-centric:

Increase operational efficiency 38%

Plan, and have goals to measure hybrid cloud transition effectiveness

“De-cloud” apps & services that prove expensive to operate under Hybrid IT

1Watch your operational expenses during cloud deployments

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