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  • Information Technology it’s expensive because the value is absolute
    • The valuation it’s always gradually increases because the people are enhancing and the system itself growing
    • Upgrading the system is inevitable and can’t be avoided — the difference is all about timing when going to upgrade the problem is, it’s difficult to accurately predict when going to upgrade
  • Understanding the goals and the most critical functions need to be looked at based on tangible vs intangible aspects all of these things need explanation in detail and always ask “Why”, “Why”, and “Why”
    • dollar cost, dollar savings
  • There are a few things that we can use if we want to discuss with a non-tech executive person
    • Understanding the critical functions start with the availability (conceptualization about the system availability)
    • performance and tuning
    • capacity planning (foresee in next 1-2 years)
    • storage management
    • security management
    • cost estimation, several things that we probably forgot about this are: recruitment, scheduled outages
  • Benefit estimation ability to predict
  • What are we doing with all these things?
    • Understanding the goal, getting alignment between company needs or goals
    • estimate all things: from costs, benefits, and numbers and get supported through recommendation
  • Every leader or executive has different nature when they manage their works
  • Aligning IT with business strategy and executives and how are we going to influence them by:
    • education and communication
    • involvement of IT executives