This white paper argues that strategic IT spending should be treated as a business enabler, not a fixed cost, by aligning budgets to measurable outcomes like agility, resilience, and service excellence. It outlines common problems such as excessive “keep-the-lights-on” spending, redundant tools, weak governance, and limited ROI visibility, and recommends benchmarking current spend and service levels, prioritizing high-impact optimization levers (cloud rightsizing, vendor consolidation, app rationalization, automation, and managed services), and using maturity stages from fragmented to optimized. It also provides a 30-60-90 day roadmap to gain visibility, deliver quick wins, and scale improvements without sacrificing SLA performance.

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