Perspectives Podcast: How To Succeed at Tool Consolidation

By Shaun Cooney

Think about what it takes to buy a couch.

Measure your living room. Decide on a color scheme and design. Visit a variety of stores to test out the options — a perfect excuse to try the Swedish meatballs at IKEA. Without careful consideration, you could end up with a couch that doesn’t fit through your door or clashes with your drapes. The same goes for technology; haphazard decisions result in tools that don’t play nicely with one another or a complex environment without visibility into your data. The need for tool consolidation has emerged as budgets tighten and complexity rises.

Inter IKEA’s Arun Prasad, senior business analyst, and Magnus Lord, functional expert, join me and my co-host Kirsty Paine on this Perspectives podcast episode to discuss how they improved observability outcomes and maximized business value through the tool consolidation process.

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Shaun Cooney

Shaun is a business technologist who’s spent much of his career in intelligence, defence & telecommunications where he has experience in Cyber Security, resilience, data and product development leadership roles. Most recently Shaun held a senior leadership role as head of Engineering for the UK’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), leading the development of digital services and guidance across the UK Government and beyond.

Shaun's role, Strategic Advisor, Technology & Innovation for EMEA sees him spending most of his time helping organisations through their transformations and large change programmes, helping them to think more strategically or differently about their use of data and technology to validate and implement their business strategies.

As a child, Shaun told his parents that he wanted to be a giraffe when he grew up. Standing at 6 foot 8 inches (203cm) Shaun is proud to have achieved his childhood dream.

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