The Ops
The global community for Opex Excellence in IT

IT spend is growing 7-9% annually, with cloud and infrastructure costs growing 20-40%
Finance and IT need to know where to locate and kill waste to maintain opex excellence.
CFOs see the total spend. CIOs see the technical requirements. Both need visibility into the intersection.


Peer Learning

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Real Examples
Sharing lessons of operational excellence, opex innovation and contract control with Big IT.

– Cut software waste
– Fix licence issues
– Reduce vendor spend
– Improve IT/Finance alignment
– Align on IT OpEx optimisation
– Benchmark tooling, spend and operational metrics
– Balance cost cuts with risk and performance
– Share vendor negotiations, costs and hidden fees
– Show IT spend excellence to the board
Opex Hacks
Contract Pushbacks
Peer Insight
Benchmarks
Monthly Deep Dives
Private Network
Removing the boundaries
COO / Operations Directors
CFO / Finance Directors
Platform / Infrastructure / SRE
IT Operations / CIO Office
Business Operations / PMO
Vendor Management / Procurement

Government: IT RDEL Savings in Taxpayer Tech: March 5th, House of Lords, UK.

Insurance Opex Blindspots: Rethinking Contracts: March 4, City of London

Telco Opex: Low Hanging Fruit in IT Controls: March 3, City of London


We exist because companies are fed up of IT firms taking too much of their innovation budgets - and overcharging when they know their are huge amounts of unreported waste.Big IT relies on a lack of transparency, understanding and communication between finance and IT.The Ops is a community of world-class experts who address these issues on a daily basis to free up opex for innovation and growth.
The Ops is part of The Executive Summary - an EB100 company.
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