2024 Track Descriptions
Cloud FinOps
Cloud adoption continues to accelerate as organizations seek greater agility amid fluctuating market conditions and changing corporate objectives. With this transition from fixed to variable spend, cloud has become one of the most volatile tech costs, increasing the focus on improved cloud economics through FinOps. No matter where you are in your FinOps journey, learn how to maximize the business value of your cloud program with increased visibility, collaboration, and accountability to ensure cloud becomes your strategic advantage. Also, see how to gain a comprehensive view of all technology investments by incorporating FinOps into your overall TBM practice, helping to drive alignment and optimal value realization.
Agile & Portfolio Management
The nature of work has transitioned from project to product with the promise of greater innovation and customer centricity. However, the move to Agile and a more hybrid (Agile and Waterfall) delivery model often creates organizational blind spots. This leads to gaps in understanding and challenges in gaining insights into delivery, talent capacity, labor costs, OKR alignment, and product TCO. In addition, few delivery teams can clearly illustrate or measure the business impact of their efforts . By incorporating Agile resources and portfolio management into your TBM practice, you can build greater agility and resiliency in your organization while accelerating innovation and improving decision-making across the company.
Technology Financial Management
Despite concerns about market variability, worldwide tech spend is expected to grow by 8% this year. However, technology investments are not a free-for-all, and organizations must still continuously optimize run-the-business costs while driving innovation to meet customer and stakeholder needs. In this track, you will discover how to extract greater insights from operational and financial data and unlock the black box of technology spend and consumption. For some organizations, achieving cost transparency is a huge milestone, while for others, getting to complete showback is a game changer. Sessions will also illustrate how to drive greater collaboration, thereby improving decisions and helping deliver greater value from your technology investments.
Operations and Automation
Technology Business Management not only umbrellas technology financial management and FinOps but increasingly adjacent disciplines across technology operations and automation. Operations is the heartbeat of every organization, encompassing internal systems, processes, vendors, and infrastructure, and automating those aspects of operations – especially with the introduction of AI-driven operations and automated actions – is becoming increasingly vital to success. When companies have efficient operating models supported by requisite capabilities and automation, they can maximize cross-functional productivity and value creation. Automation can be an efficiency force multiplier, eliminating manual tasks and freeing resources to focus on more strategic objectives.
Innovation
Core to TBM maturity is empowering the movement of investments from run the business to change the business, accelerating innovation and scale. Every organization needs to fund its AI agenda, which is typically driven by mandates from the board or the top of the organization. Investments in cyber-security, risk management, and overall compliance are increasing, while cloud computing continues to be a core part of an organization’s overall innovation strategy. Planning for innovation is no trivial task, as there are always tradeoffs, and outcomes are rarely guaranteed. Learn how fellow technology leaders approach investment decisions related to innovation and growth. By aligning with an organization’s highest value generators through data and insight-driven decisions, they can provide clarity on TCO and improve return on investment.
Data Management
The sheer volume, velocity, and complexity of data continues to grow exponentially. Within this data trove lies both our greatest potential insights and analysis as well as our greatest threats to security, compliance, and privacy. With TBM implementations, data access and quality can be the difference between success and failure, with dirty or blocked data slowing or stalling the process. The vast array of operational, labor, and financial data within organizations is often siloed in disparate systems and teams, making it difficult to pull together or integrate. Learn methods and strategies for overcoming these hurdles to transform your company's data into actionable intelligence to help you make better decisions and improve business outcomes.