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The Definition Of “More From Less” In B2B Content Strategy And Operations - The best tip here to focus a lot on recycling what you have already. I agree: there’s always a lot of assets and not near enough promotion and reuse/remixing of them. // “When asked about their perception of the content that they receive from vendors who market to them, 61% of business buyers say that vendors give them too much content, and 63% say that what they get is more focused on style than substance. And here’s the kicker: 69% — close to three-quarters — say that if the content from vendors that they currently do business with isn’t valuable or helpful, they’re not likely to expand contracts. On top of this, businesses know that they’re pumping out content that doesn’t meet the mark: 61% say that one-quarter to three-quarters of their content goes to waste — that it isn’t used as intended."
CD Foundation Releases Fourth State of Continuous Delivery Report, 2023 - In these surveys (based on big SlashData surveys), Since 2020, the reporting on the deployment frequency breakout has held steady: ~35% more than a month, ~32% a week to a month, ~22% hourly to weekly, ~10% multiple times a day. These are a lot different than what analysts (like Forrester) typically track, as well as the old State of Agile surveys (digital.ai seems to have stopped tracking deployment frequency after, like, 13 years. Too bad!)
Enterprise interest in sovereign cloud on the rise, survey - “In a poll of 1,000 enterprise leaders from 10 countries, including Australia, France, Germany, India, and the UK and US, 69% of respondents cited potential exposure to extra-territorial laws when using cloud as being a top concern.”
FinOps! Five Cost Management Tips for IT Leaders, IDC - Good chart of what people are doing to optimize cloud spend (only n= from Dec 2022, though). Also:“In a recent IDC poll of CIOs, 64% of respondents said they were spending more on the Cloud than they budgeted. Over 50% of CEOs are concerned about Cloud Spend.” And: “companies that regularly employ cost benchmarking typically find 5-10% efficiency opportunities. However, companies that have never performed cost benchmarking can see up to 30% opportunities for cost efficiency."
I’m giving a talk about platform engineering lessons learned at Devoxx UK this week, May 10th to 12th in London. If you want to register, you can use the code SEEMESPEAK23 to get 25% off.
