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Expected reading time: 10 minutes The Savings Myth That Won’t Die:   No CFO has ever been surprised by a data centre bill going up 40% in a quarter. Plenty have been surprised by a cloud bill doing exactly that. The infrastructure changed. However, the discipline around it didn’t keep up, and that gap is where the money […]

Expected reading time: 10 minutes Microsoft’s AI Heaven Microsoft’s AI portfolio, Copilot, Agent 365 and the M365 E7 stack, represents a clear productivity leap. License it now, get ahead of the curve, and the ROI will follow as adoption matures. Your renewal is the right moment to make that move. What We Actually See on […]

Sezen Gürlek Kafaoglu is Senior Consultant in sourcing, procurement and vendor management at Leadout. In this blog, she shares what real ownership looks like in practice, and what it actually takes to build something a client will still be using years later. If you missed it, read her first feature, Vendor Management, The Untapped Space, on why the space she works in is […]

Expected reading time: 10 minutes Can AI Be Managed Like Software? AI is moving fast — but organizations believe they already know how to manage it. The tools come from familiar vendors, integrate into existing platforms, and are contracted in ways that resemble traditional software. On the surface, nothing fundamentally changes. So, the response is […]

Sezen Gürlek Kafaoglu is Senior Consultant in sourcing, procurement and vendor management at Leadout. In this blog, she explains why vendor management is one of the most underrated spaces in IT consulting. The space nobody owns Vendor management is one of those spaces that most organisations know they need, but few truly invest in. Technical teams focus on […]

Expected reading time: 10 minutes In a previous article, Vendor Complexity Is Not a Scale Problem. It’s a Governance Failure, we argued that vendor ecosystems don’t become complex because of scale alone. Decisions accumulate without a governing structure. That creates complexity. The real problem? Poor lifecycle control, unclear ownership, and weak vendor design. That article […]

Nobody tells you what the first weeks at a consulting firm actually feel like. Not the ‘exciting challenges’ version you read in job ads, the real version. The one where your calendar fills up before you’ve figured out where the coffee machine is, and you’re suddenly juggling five different client situations at once without a clear sense of what’s urgent.  A lot coming […]

Expected reading time: 10′ There’s a persistent myth in enterprise IT that moving to SaaS solves the license and usage monitoring headache. After all, isn’t the whole point of software-as-a-service that you pay a subscription, log in, and use it? No more sprawling license agreements, no more audit letters, no more compliance anxiety. The vendor […]

Expected reading time: 10′ FinOps doesn’t fail because of a lack of tools, it fails because no one truly owns the cost of engineering decisions. As organizations accelerate their adoption of public and hybrid cloud, they unlock unprecedented flexibility. Engineers can deploy, scale, and optimize infrastructure in minutes. What used to be long-term, predictable investments […]