Here are the six performance strategies, moving left to right: eliminate waste, drive top priorities, leverage purchasing scale, close the IT performance gap, open government to get results and finally, attract and motivate top talent.

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While some measures such as changes in purchasing take longer to impact financial performance, early results give us confidence that we have begun taking the right steps to address these issues and position the business for further success.

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So if an organization decided to buy even more disk space to try and increase their performance, they actually end up over-purchasing and under-utilizing all of their storage capacity for miniscule gains.

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