Discipline:

Organizations that are able to demonstrate continuous improvement and deliver on the initiatives planned see cost optimization as a discipline and not as a one-off or discrete project. The principle of discipline ensures that cost optimization has an accountable owner and is led from the top (normally by the CIO). It is essential to proactively manage cost optimization and think of longer-term cost targets, with dashboards and metrics to measure improvement, instead of waiting for targets to be handed down from the top management. Organizations that do this well often create a team including professionals from outside of IT to ensure optimization solutions consider business outcomes and constraints rather than purely technical specifications.

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