Henny Schlebusch, MBA, Pr.CIO · Author

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decisions that matter.

Name: The Cost Centre in the Corner
Author: Henny Schlebusch
ISBN: 9781048343892

Technology, strategy and responsibility — examined from inside the organisations that have to make them work.

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The Cost Centre
in the Corner

Why Strategy Fails When Technology Enters Too Late

Henny Schlebusch, MBA, Pr.CIO

When technology enters late,
the important choices are already made.

Too often, technology leaders are asked to deliver a strategy they had no part in shaping. The budget is committed. The expectations are set. Only then does someone ask whether the systems, people and architecture can support the ambition.

The Cost Centre in the Corner explores why that pattern persists — and what changes when technology becomes part of the strategic conversation from the start.

Written for CIOs, executives and boards, it connects the timing of technology involvement with the quality of business decisions, the credibility of delivery commitments and the ownership of outcomes.

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01 / Strategy

Enter the conversation earlier.

Bring technology insight into the decisions that shape the business, before those decisions become delivery constraints.

02 / Leadership

Make the trade-offs visible.

Connect ambition with the capabilities, dependencies and choices required to deliver it.

03 / Outcomes

Look beyond the cost line.

Consider technology's role in business performance, not only the budget assigned to keep it running.

In development

The Responsibility Lag

What happens when execution moves faster than responsibility?

A further exploration of the gap between the speed at which technology and AI can act, and the speed at which organisations assign authority, exercise judgment and take ownership of consequences.

The book examines how responsibility must move through an organisation — not simply sit inside its reporting lines.

Publication details to follow.

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About the author

An operator's perspective.

Henny Schlebusch, MBA, Pr.CIO, is a Professional Chief Information Officer and author who writes about the relationship between technology, leadership and organisational outcomes. His career spans more than twenty years across logistics, financial services, telecommunications and security, including technology leadership across Asia-Pacific, Europe and Africa.

He holds an MBA from the University of Cumbria, with a specialisation in Artificial Intelligence and research focused on AI adoption and operational efficiency in logistics.

His books explore the practical questions behind strategy: who joins the conversation, who can make the decision, and who owns what happens next.

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ORCID: 0009-0001-8528-3622

Books for thedecisions that matter.

The Cost Centrein the Corner

When technology enters late,the important choices are already made.