😰 Dear CEO, as you issued the bonus to your CFO for hitting their profitability and cost reduction targets for last year, do you know how IT effected those budget cuts?  😰

Having been in the ICT space for over 32 years I have come to know my kind very well and one trait many of us have is cutting features to meet budget as negotiating for budget is worse than having a tooth pulled without aesthesia.  

So, when you cut the budget for ICT the geeks went back to the suppliers to request for features to be removed so as to achieve the budget assigned, in many cases what was omitted is what would have made the lives if the ICT teams more comfortable.

To find out if your consistent requests to have ICT reduce their budget resulted in functionality omissions, sit down with your CIO or head of IT and complete the following quiz to get a scorecard or baseline of how well your data centre is designed against best practice.

PS.  Please make sure you do it together otherwise they will not be sincere to themselves, they just cannot avoid it, its their nature.