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In the AI era, tech debt needs to be on your innovation roadmap. Explore how inefficient IT investments, fragmented systems, and delayed modernization create financial, and operational risks and how leaders can reinvest for future growth.
Explore what it really takes to make TBM successful, from building stakeholder accountability and improving data over time to embedding transparency, governance, and business alignment for lasting organizational impact.
AI is pushing ITFM from backward-looking reports to forward-looking decisions. Here's what that shift means for your team.
Johnson Controls VP Amy Byalick reveals how to make change stick in an organization, create governance that lasts beyond leadership changes, and align technology investments to enterprise strategy.
Explore the true cost of AI as we cover TCO, hidden costs, scaling risks, and ITFM strategies for smarter AI investment.
Explore how mature IT financial management transforms budget conversations into strategic value
Samsung scaled FinOps across 14 business units, achieving $300K+ monthly savings (~15%) by driving early quick wins, enabling business teams with cost visibility, and aligning business KPIs with cloud spend—transforming forced conversations into organic collaboration.
Learn how organizations take the first steps toward Strategic Portfolio Management – from closing the strategy-execution gap to aligning governance, funding, and prioritization.
Discover why strong ITFM foundations matter to move beyond spreadsheets, gain cost visibility, and build scalable IT financial management.
Explore what's new in FOCUS 1.3, how organizations are operationalizing the spec, and what's ahead on the roadmap—straight from the FinOps Foundation.
Samsung scaled FinOps across 14 business units, transforming cloud spend into a governed, KPI-aligned investment discipline.
Discover why strong ITFM foundations matter to move beyond spreadsheets, gain cost visibility, and build scalable IT financial management.
Explore how standardized teams and TBM drive visibility, measurable value, and scalable cloud-AI decisions.
Allstate transformed IT operations from cost-cutting to value delivery and implemented outcome-based delivery across $1.7B in technology investments.
Hear how FinOps practices are evolving and meeting the demands of AI-first organizations.
Explore how IT Financial Management practices combined with Strategic Portfolio Management help leaders make smarter IT outcome-driven decisions.
Explore smarter, data-driven ITFM strategies to unlock immediate savings, optimize spend, eliminate waste, and align investments with business value.
Learn how organizations can move beyond static annual budgeting cycles with value stream budgeting and modern SPM tools.
Discover how AI transforms IT operation through strategic implementation, tackles data management challenges, and helps leaders drive measurable business value.
Explore smarter, data-driven ITFM strategies to unlock immediate savings, optimize IT spend, eliminate waste, and align tech investments with business value.
Unpack how AIOps turns data into decisions, tackles adoption challenges, and helps leaders scale smarter.
FinOps expert Idaliz Baez shares tips to align strategy, drive team buy-in, integrate tools, and drive value with unit economics.
Explore smarter, data-driven ITFM strategies to unlock immediate savings, optimize spend, eliminate waste, and align investments with business value.
In this episode of Navigating the Tech Frontier, host Jenny Fong, VP Product Marketing, Apptio, an IBM Company and guest John Ridd, CEO, Green Pixie Ltd. discuss IT sustainability challenges.
Explore how to assess the cost and impact of IT infrastructure choices, unify cloud and on-prem costs in a single view, and leverage what-if analysis for informed decision-making.
Learn how to connect IT sustainability initiatives to business value and optimize your cloud strategy for both cost and carbon
Learn how to optimize cloud costs and reduce carbon footprint through FinOps practices.
Explore how to compare and track migration costs across hybrid IT environments, spot financial signals to rethink strategy, and balance IT cost with operational needs.
How to balance innovation with operational demands, and what responsible AI adoption looks like across the enterprise
Discover challenges, best practices, and evolution of IT productivity (efficiency + effectiveness) to drive business value.
Learn how to apply enterprise-level best practices, take your strategy beyond tooling, and leverage the FinOps Framework to mature your program.
Discover the drivers and benefits of adopting cloud marketplaces, enhancing enterprise agility, real-world impact of IBM Targetprocess, and more.
AI investments require a strategic approach to drive business value and ROI — learn from experts how you can make the most of yours.
Discover change management strategies that fuel FinOps adoption and maturity — from securing buy-in at every level to setting OKRs to measure success.
Explore the evolution of ITFM and discover strategies for aligning IT investments with business outcomes, bridging IT-Finance gaps, and implementing effective financial management practices in today's IT landscape.
Discover key considerations to make your AI strategy successful in our latest Navigating the Tech Frontier episode.
Discover key 2025 predictions for portfolio and resource management and how organizations can improve planning, prioritization, and agility at scale.
Discover IT planning best practices and strategies to help organizations quickly adapt to rapidly changing market demands.
Learn how FOCUS™ (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) helps standardize billing data, remove silos, and synthesize actionable insights.
Learn how to transform stakeholder alignment and drive business value through effective IT planning in our latest episode of Navigating the Tech Frontier.
Discover how IT planning helps organizations ensure their technology investments contribute to organizational success.
Expert guidance on increasing cost transparency, accountability, and efficiency to level up your FinOps practice.
Discover how FinOps can unite teams across your organization with a shared interest in cloud cost savings and data transparency.
Learn how to drive innovation while optimizing your tech and labor investments in this insightful discussion on the future of annual planning.
Discover challenges in implementing chargeback and showback, metrics to measure success, impact of future trends like AI, and more.
Discover key insights to make annual planning effective and successful in our latest Navigating the Tech Frontier episode.
Discover common challenges and learn how to drive successful showback and chargeback programs for smarter cost-cutting decisions.
Learn about cloud migration and cloud cost optimization pitfalls, workarounds, and best practices to help you maximize value from the get-go.
Explore strategies for overcoming hurdles for buy-in, the role data plays in building credibility, and tips for applying FinOps principles across organization-wide cost centers.
Explore the implementation strategies and actionable insights for cost transparency that can aid your organizational endeavors.
Hear best practices for commitment spend strategies with guidance on gamifying processes, cost allocation, and unit economics.
An insightful discussion on the critical role of cost transparency in tech expenses, and how it influences investment decisions.
Recommendations for accelerating your FinOps journey from a veteran with over 13 years in cloud and operations
In this episode of FinOps Fridays, we continue to explore the intriguing relationship between FinOps and Sustainability.
We kick off an exciting conversation about the dynamic partnership between FinOps and Sustainability, focusing on what this means in the realm of IT.
Learn why a partnership with finance is crucial during adoption of SAFe and the best practices for doing so
Nathan Besh and Dvir Mizrahi explore roadblocks and how to overcome them in your FinOps journey
Nathan Besh and Dvir Mizrahi explore engineering-driven FinOps adoption in this FinOps Fridays episode
With the whats and whys of forecasting covered in the first part, Dieter Matzion and Nathan Besh pick up the pace to get a level deeper into the topic and look at the “Hows” in the second part of episode 11 of FinOps Fridays.
Nathan Besh and Ashley Hromatko discuss what careers in FinOps look like what skills are necessary to be successful.
The third and last part this FinOps Fridays episode discusses what the final picture of unit economics looks like and the challenges and roadblocks you should be aware of.
This episode of FinOps Fridays digs further into unit economics, exploring its execution.
What is Unit economics? How does it help? How is it different from other metrics? Join us for the breakdown.
Nathan Besh and Thiago Gil explore how FinOps can solve Brazil’s increasing labor costs, the need for innovation in the public sector, and more.
Nathan Besh and Thiago Gil discuss Brazil’s history, technology evolution, and unique challenges and opportunities it has for FinOps.
Nathan Besh and Alee Whitman discuss the what, the why, and the how of gamification of your FinOps practice
Nathan Besh and Alee Whitman discuss the what, the why, and the how of gamification of your FinOps practice
Nathan and Mike Surma dig deeper into container architecture and management to help inform business decisions.
Everyone is talking containers, they’re being sold as a silver bullet that solve a variety of computing and cost issues.
Explore what's on the horizon and how we should equip ourselves to overcome challenges in SaaS
This episode of FinOps Fridays is all about getting technically ready for a FinOps practice within your organization.
This episode of FinOps Fridays is about beginning a FinOps journey. Specifically, how you get your organization on board with the program
Welcome to FinOps Fridays! Join us for the inaugural episode of a series all about, well, FinOps.