The Ops

The global community for Opex Excellence in IT

The IT Opex Blindspot

Do you know what you've bought?

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.

What happens in business IT?

Finance, IT and Operations need to show returns, but cannot see it

CFOs see the total spend. CIOs see the technical requirements. Both need visibility into the intersection.

Community

Drive better outcomes at lower costs

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

"Speakers at this forum showed us how to save tens of millions of dollars a year. We couldn't believe how much we were wasting."
- CFO, Fortune 500 Firm

Learn how to:

– 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

Benefits:

Get better control of IT OPex

Opex Hacks
Contract Pushbacks
Peer Insight
Benchmarks
Monthly Deep Dives
Private Network

Removing the boundaries

Who it's for

COO / Operations Directors
CFO / Finance Directors
Platform / Infrastructure / SRE
IT Operations / CIO Office
Business Operations / PMO
Vendor Management / Procurement

Events

Meet. Ask. Learn. Connect.

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

Why are we here?

you need Opex

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.

A global network where leaders help each other on IT Opex optimization, balancing cost, risk and performance.


Join The Community

Join The Ops to get clearer strategies, monthly peer insight sessions, guest speakers, a marketplace for alternative providers, opex benchmarks and meetups.

Thank you

The Ops is part of The Executive Summary - an EB100 company.
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