How do leading CIOs get acknowledged as a trusted adviser to the business? They avoid the top 7 credibility killers.

CIOs that define their relevance with uptime stats and SLAs lack credibility with their C-suite peers. Justifying your presence with operational metrics identifies you as the face of just another cost center—with no value-add to a business conversation.

Seats in the C-suite belong to leaders who measure their impact on the bottom line—if CIOs don’t quantify their value in language non-techies understand, they won’t be invited to the table.

Download this eBook to learn the 7 killers of CIO credibility and what you can do to avoid them.

Today’s digital enterprises can no longer rely on yesterday’s traditional IT-centric operating model, which emphasized IT services over business capabilities. The new paradigm embraces cloud and Agile, continuous delivery, and greater efficiency. IT must become a strategic partner to the business, with technology investments that support key business objectives and spur innovation.

Technology Business Management delivers on those requirements. Developed and utilized by hundreds of CIOs, CTOs, and CFOs of Fortune 500 companies, it’s a proven data-driven discipline that defines the tools, processes, data, and people needed to manage the business of technology.

Download the eBook to learn:

• How your IT operating model needs to evolve
• The key attributes your digital enterprise needs in a new model
• How Apptio’s TBM solutions empower you to manage the business of IT and fund innovation

What are the 12 most important questions to answer to develop a rolling forecast strategy? Find out. Download the Rolling IT Forecasts cheat sheet to learn:

• 5 reasons rolling forecasts fail
• 5 steps to establish a rolling forecast cadence
• How to accurately forecast future IT spend in minutes

CIOs are under constant pressure to deliver innovation and efficiency, and at a lower cost to boot. Fortunately, when it comes to enterprise IT spend, chances are the necessary resources to drive improvements are already there, hidden in budget padding. All you need are the right tools to identify and exploit them.

Download this brief to:

• Understand your budget-to-actual variances and what causes them
• Learn how to course-correct towards freeing up fettered funds for growing your business

Ready to communicate IT cost and value in terms your business unit partners understand?

The Apptio TBM Unified Model® (ATUM®) standardizes the financial information necessary for IT leaders to manage their technology business.

Use this poster as a resource to:

• Establish better alignment between IT, Finance, and other business units by using common language around IT costs
• Confidently manage the business of IT with the backing of peer-derived best practices
• Understand 10 essential metrics you should track to communicate the business value of IT

Cloud migration is consistently one of the top priorities of technology leaders across the world today, but many are overwhelmed by trying to plan their cloud migration, struggling to prioritize workloads and unsure of the cost implications..

Download this white paper to discover the 5 key steps for cloud migration based on the best practices of today’s most successful IT leaders:

• Baseline TCO resources (cloud, on-premises, hybrid)
• Map current on-premises resources to cloud offerings
• Evaluate and prioritize migration strategy
• Calculate migration costs
• Define success metrics

This eBook outlines how organizations can leverage showback and chargeback to impact IT costs—to improve awareness and accountability, and to shape demand and consumption.

Follow the guiding principles outlined in this eBook so you can:

• Eliminate labor-intensive manual billing
• Get rid of high-level, indefensible IT allocations
• Put an end to the notion that IT is free
• Reduce frustration by business leaders about their IT costs

Are you spending too much on AWS?

The costs of running your AWS infrastructure can add up quickly if left unchecked. Without the right strategy, companies can wind up leaving a lot of savings on the table. Having worked with with some of the biggest AWS spenders in the world, Apptio Cloudability has identified notable trends in the way successful companies monitor, manage and mitigate their AWS costs.

This e-book will teach you:

• The basics of AWS cost visibility
• How to optimize usage efficiency
• How to develop a Reserved Instance purchasing strategy
• How to build a cycle and culture of continuous cloud cost management