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Shruthi Shankel

Principal Analyst

Shruthi Shankel is an Associate Principal Analyst - IT Finance, Economics, Value & Risk Team at Gartner. Shruthi is responsible for developing research around Cybersecurity in Business Context, Business Value of IT and Digital Execution Scorecard. Her core area of research includes Capex Vs Opex treatment of Cloud Costs, Cybersecurity Outcome Driven Metrics, Cybersecurity Governance Framework. Framework and definitions of Digital Execution Scorecard. She also supports CIOs with their quest to achieve IT cost optimization, helps them demonstrate IT's value to the business and how to respond to recession & inflation and communicate business value of IT.

Previous experience

Prior to joining Gartner, Shruthi worked with Accenture Services Pvt Ltd for 5 years. Her role and expertise was in budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.

Professional background

Accenture Services Pvt Ltd, Senior Analyst, 5 years

EXL Services Pvt Ltd, Senior Associate, 1 years

Areas of coverage
  • Provide Strategic Business Leadership

Education

Chartered Accountant

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Top Issues That I Help Clients Address

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Communicating business value of cybersecurity to board executives

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Communicating Business Value of IT to board executives

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IT Cost Optimization

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Benchmark IT spend

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Cybersecurity outcome driven metrics and benchmarking