DevOps: How to convince your CFO or Business Head ?

Driving the strategic financial direction of an organization is at the heart of the CFO role.  CFOs are charged with making informed decisions regarding how to distribute an organization’s assets in order to maximize value to customers and, therefore, generate profit.  To achieve that, it is critical that CFOs stay informed about new and emerging business principles and management systems across all functional areas of the organization and be convinced on the ROI.

Most technologists or IT folks get stuck in progressing their DevOps or Continuous Delivery ideas when they are posed with the golden question "What is in it for me ? " or "What is the ROI ?"

Some of the key benefits from DevOps that resonate well with CFO's / Business Heads are 

Reducing Cash Conversion Cycle

• Delivering new functionality to customers in quicker cycles will result in new revenue earlier
• Faster Time to Market translates to quicker Cash Conversion Cycle

Increase Employee Engagement

• Better Performing teams leads to more engaged employees
• Engagement drives employee behavior which is proven to drive organizational results / outcomes.

Faster Growth

• By shortening the feedback loop, 
• Better equipped to give customers what they want.
• Reducing churn

Reduced Expenses

• Focus on continuous improvement
• Increased efficiency
• Long term cost reduction