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A Day in the Life of a Tech CEO: Ben King, Founder, Aviato Consulting
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A Day in the Life of a Tech CEO: Ben King, Founder, Aviato Consulting

Oct 7, 2024 | 3 mins

A lot of technology is still being deployed “for the sake of it” with some project managers losing sight of their original goals, focusing on time and budget delivery rather than delivering enterprise value.

This is according to Ben King, the former APAC Cloud Consulting Lead at Google who now runs Aviato Consulting, a cloud infrastructure, data and AI analytics specialist.

“Every time you’re spending a dollar in tech, it should be increasing your enterprise value by more than a dollar or you’ve wasted money,” he tells ADAPT.

King says c-level execs are making decisions to invest in tech and by the time the work “trickles down” to practitioners, it gets watered down and organisations have lost sight of their original objectives.

“If it [a tech project] doesn’t deliver enterprise value, that’s a failure of a project, even if it’s on time and on budget. As IT leaders, we need…

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