Musk Says He’s Deleted CrowdStrike From Systems After Outage
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That's because IT NEVER earns its way. It's a capital investment in efficiency. It does not actually create income. Organization leaders struggle badly to understand (let alone predict) efficiency in a tech upgrade that never brings actual income. It only can make income faster if it works. But then how do you prove that?
Normally, you have to do a cost analysis and identify total work hours in wages spent on things as simple as clicking 2 buttons. Then you have show the development time (in developer wages) for streamlining the process into one button, and add that as a cost. Then you have to go back and find the total work hours in wages spent on clicking one button. Then you present it to the organization as:
"We currently spend $36,000 in labor costs per year, company-wide, to click two buttons. If we use our team of developers to streamline the process into a single button click, it will cost us $950 in man hours to develop, $1200 for testing, and then $325 for training to create a new process. The total development and training Once the new process is complete $2,475 in labor cost. Once implemented, the total cost of clicking one button, per year, company-wide, should be $8,000"
If your IT executive can't make that statement, the business isn't going to know what's good for it.
God help you if you have to try and explain why purchasing a software suite from a vendor will help you, especially as the contract changes each year or so.