The Cost of Too Much Technology

Most enterprises can list their licences. Far fewer can explain what each tool changed. The visible cost is subscription spend; the real cost is integration surface, fragmented data, duplicated capability and the meetings required to keep it all aligned.

A rationalisation exercise is not about austerity. It is about restoring pace. Fewer, better-owned platforms mean faster decisions and cleaner data, which is precisely what any AI ambition depends on.

Start with what earns: map every tool to a commercial outcome and an owner. Anything without both is a candidate for removal.