The Hub Commentary __
Beth’s opening statement regarding the Aberdeen findings sums it up, mid size organizations are under performing larger organizations. Pick up the Fortune 500 list as I do each year and look at the top 5 in each industry. There are 3 things that always standout:
- Those that lead, know how to harness the commodity of technology to not only power, but drive business.
- Those that lead, lead by magnitudes greater than their followers.
- Those that innovate, change how a market functions, don’t always stay on top. Check out where eBay is for example. The innovator often gets leapfrogged.
Beth references a previous article my good friend Glenn O’Donnell of Forrester is quoted offering the following 5 pieces of advice:
- Consolidate management tools
- Invest in Network Change and Config Mgmt
- Application awareness
- Pay for analysis, not monitoring
- Get more from existing tools
2011 will be the year IT transforms to measure business performance and ties the analytics to the data to drive business performance, not IT or technology performance. Use technology for the mundane and routine, measure performance, reduce costs, do more with less and measuring the network and application performance regardless of where it resides will be key to having that complete view of business performance to use technology to improve that performance in clever ways.
Michele
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If you’re overseeing performance management initiatives at a midsized organization — one with annual revenue between $50 million and $500 million — then you probably have a thing or two to learn from your counterparts at larger enterprises. (Read Full Article …)
