Driving business outcomes through cost-optimized innovation

Summary

Published June 2025

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For mid-size companies, the innovation gap blocks growth, progress, and competition. While larger firms implement cutting-edge tools and processes to get or stay ahead, SMBs struggle to fund new initiatives that could help them keep up with leaders in their industries.

In many cases, haphazardly managed IT estates serve to inhibit the innovation mid-market organizations need to compete. Nearly half of the participants in our research study say their software or cloud costs are too high, and a third report that both software and cloud produce overspend.

Create opportunities to fund new technology by cleaning up your IT estate with a strong optimization program. Our executive summary, Driving business outcomes through cost-optimized innovation, gives you the essential results of our research on optimized innovators, so you can learn how successful companies are:

  • Closing the mid-market innovation gap
  • Implementing a cost-optimized innovation maturity framework
  • Realizing financial, operational, and strategic benefits from IT modernization

Download the summary now to get the essentials on how to turbocharge results and begin building your own action plan to become an optimized innovator.