Should Cloud Cost Optimisation be a Board Level Discussion?

A Thebes Cloud Webinar with APPTIO

 

The pandemic has seen several, operational step changes, one of which has been an acceleration of cloud adoption and usage. Coupled with the need for CFOs to drive cost efficiencies across the organisation to compensate for the drop in revenues and rise in uncertainty, Business Leaders are now facing a triple pronged conundrum, how to manage:

  • Huge increases in technology usage, especially cloud, leading to cost challenges.

  • More complex technologies in response to new ways of working.

  • The cost efficiency needs of the business.

Traditionally, Board Members were not technology “savvy”, but this is changing as decisions regarding how technology is used in the business now can have a material impact on the bottom line.

However, in order to inform the discussion, Board members must now learn to ask the right questions.

During this webinar we will address the common problems and challenges that many businesses experience, by using real life case studies.

 

 

Meet the panel

 

Sir Kenneth Olisa

OBE and Non-Executive Chairman @ Thebes Group

Ken is Founder and Chairman of Restoration Partners, the boutique technology merchant bank and architects of Inogesis formerly known as The Virtual Technology Cluster model. Ken’s technology career spans over 30 years commencing with IBMx from whom he won a scholarship while at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. In 1992, after twelve years as a senior executive at Wang Labs in the US and Europe, Ken founded Interregnum, the technology merchant bank. He was elected as a Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2006.

He is currently Chairman of Interswitch (Africa’s largest e-payments company). He is a former Director of Thomson Reuters, a former deputy Chair at the Institute of directors and Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) where he coined the famous epigram “More Soviet than City” to describe the manner of his departure.

Ken is a Freeman of the City of London, Liveryman and Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, Patron of Thames Reach (for which he received an OBE in 2010), and Chairman of charity Shaw Trust. He was an original member of the Postal Services Commission (PostComm) and the Independent Parliamentary Standard Authority (IPSA) and is the Founder and Chairman of the Aleto Foundation. He is a past Sunday Times Not for Profit Non-Executive Director of the year and was named Number 1 in the 2016 Powerlist’s roster of the UK’s most influential black people. In 2013 Ken and his wife, Julia, endowed the Olisa Library at his alma mater Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. In 2015, Her Majesty the Queen appointed Ken as Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for Greater London and he was knighted in the 2018 New Year’s Honours List for services to business and philanthropy. In September 2018 Ken was appointed as the director on the board of Huawei a Chinese multinational networking, telecommunications equipment and Services Company. Sir Kenneth is President of London Youth, a member network of 450+ community youth organisations working across London, supporting tens of thousands of young Londoners each year through their sports, arts, employment and social action programmes and outdoor learning at their residential centres in East Sussex and Buckinghamshire.

Sir Ken
 

Jack Bischof

Regional Vice President Technology Business Management Council – EMEA
Apptio Strategic Services – EMEA

Jack Bischof leads the TBM Council’s executive board and programs across the EMEA region. His award-winning work and thought leadership have helped change the way IT organizations are structured and run today. His contributions to ITIL Service Strategy, VeriSM, MOF, TBM, Cloud and Earned Value approaches to product development, have helped shape the way organizations think about value creation and operational excellence. His work on ITIL and TBM led him to coin the phrase “variable cost dynamics” to describe the realities and analysis of IT economics.

Jack’s work with dozens of the Fortune 500 and governments around the world has focused on crafting executive vision and driving transformation across the value chain. His diverse recognitions include a Boeing award for improving derivative aircraft development program effectiveness and being “coined” by the Defense Intelligence Agency CIO for his support of their portfolio strategy & vision, and agency-wide service transformation.

Jack is also responsible for Strategic Services at Apptio, helping customers craft and execute disruptive strategies. He joined Apptio from Accenture where he ran lines of business in Service Excellence and led IT Strategy and Transformation programs. With a background in Banking, Capital Markets, Energy, Aerospace, and Real Estate, Jack is an accomplished author, holds an MBA and is certified in Agile, ITIL, TBM, FinOps and PPM.

Jack-Bischoff
 

Jez Back

Consulting director - Thebes Cloud Management

Jez joins Thebes Group from having run his own consultancy business for 3 years. He has previously worked at Deloitte, HP & EDS where he has spent 14 years in the technology sector mainly focused on cloud technology.

On Thebes Cost Management, he said, “I am thrilled to be leading this new subsidiary in the Thebes Group family. My why is about helping others realise their ambitions, so that they can make their mark on the world. By using FinOps, Technology Business Management and the partnerships we are already growing – we can fix our clients cloud costs at pace. These are exciting times and the time to do this is absolutely now.”

Jez
 

Compere

 

Michael Hall

CEO of Thebes Group
Michael
 

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