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Use Metrics for Competitive Advantage
Measure the stuff that matters most to the business.
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Your Challenge
- IT departments generally collect and report either too many metrics or the wrong ones.
- Metrics programs frequently fail because little attention has been paid to what the objectives are and what should actually be measured.
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Our Advice
Critical Insight- Each IT performance metric must be clearly linked to a relevant business impact. Stop measuring and reporting metrics that are irrelevant.
- Develop metrics around customer satisfaction and IT process quality to improve customer satisfaction with IT.
- Adapt to the business model changing suddenly and unpredictably
- Adopt new technologies (e.g. mobile, social) and develop new strategies
- Respond to an increase in client & staff demand and sophistication
- Think strategically: You can't cut your way to success, and the status quo is expensive
Get to Action
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Select and implement the right metrics
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Develop data center metrics
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Develop development metrics
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Develop financial metrics
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Measure the stuff that matters most to the business.