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Northwind Retail GroupMulti-channel retail · $7.9B revenue · 41,000 employeesQ3 FY2618 documents · 2 warehouse connections · 214 governed metrics

Demonstration data. Northwind Retail Group is a synthetic company — every figure on this page is illustrative, and no customer data appears here.

CIO READING · Calibrated confidence: high on cost and resilience, moderate on AI value realisation.

Value is being created, but cost and resilience are moving against it.

Technology-enabled value is up $9.2M year on year, and AI adoption is compounding. Against that, run cost is scaling faster than the business it serves, resilience has deteriorated for two consecutive quarters, and 38% of the strategic portfolio is no longer on track. Three decisions this quarter determine whether FY26 commitments hold.

What requires the CIO's attention or decision

TECHNOLOGY ECONOMICS

Margin on digital orders is thinning even as digital revenue grows.

Contributing
Cloud and AI consumption is running 14% over the envelope while revenue is up 3.1%; unit infrastructure cost per 1,000 orders is up 9% quarter on quarter.
Impact
≈ $3.1M annualised overspend, and $0.9M of margin absorbed by unit-cost drift.
Precedent
The FY25 non-production capacity cap held $2.2M without a single service regression.
Decision asked
Re-baseline the AI consumption budget, or cap non-production workloads again?
Cloud + AI consumption vs budgetUnit infrastructure cost per 1,000 ordersRevenue influenced by technologyIT spend vs budget
RELIABILITY & RESILIENCE

Checkout revenue is exposed: conversion falls whenever the journey degrades.

Contributing
Critical-service availability fell to 99.91% against a 99.98% commitment, four business-impacting incidents landed in Q3, and MTTR rose to 72 minutes against a 45-minute target. Mobile checkout p95 latency is 2.9s since release 7.2.
Impact
$0.84M of revenue impacted in Q3, up from $0.33M in Q2.
Precedent
Rolling back release 7.2's predecessor restored checkout conversion within 48 hours eight months ago.
Decision asked
Roll back release 7.2's latency regression, or fund the remediation sprint now?
Critical-service availabilityBusiness-impacting incidentsMean time to recover (MTTR)Revenue impacted by downtimeMobile checkout p95 latency
AI & DIGITAL

The AI programme's committed contribution to FY26 earnings is at risk.

Contributing
12 initiatives, 7 in production, but only 3 with measured value: $8.4M realised against $21M committed. Adoption is strong (+31% weekly active) — measurement is not.
Impact
$12.6M of committed value unevidenced with one quarter left to land it.
Decision asked
Instrument value measurement on the four unmeasured production use cases, or re-forecast the FY26 AI benefit?
AI value realisedAI use cases in productionAI active weekly usageAI portfolio ROI
TRANSFORMATION & DELIVERY

The modernisation commitment that unlocks FY27's cost position is slipping.

Contributing
Strategic portfolio on-track fell 11 points to 62%; run share of spend rose to 71% against a 60% FY27 commitment; legacy retirement is at 41% against 70%.
Impact
At the current rate the FY27 run-cost target misses by roughly $9M, and change capacity keeps shrinking.
Decision asked
Stop two amber programmes to protect the modernisation path, or re-commit FY27?
Strategic portfolio on-trackRun vs change spendModernisation progress (legacy estate retired)Transformation value realised vs plan

What must be true

  • Release 7.2's latency regression is the dominant cause of the checkout conversion drop — not merchandising or pricing.
  • The cloud overspend is consumption growth, not a rate or commitment-discount change.
  • The four unmeasured AI use cases in production are capable of being instrumented this quarter.

What could break it

  • Peak trading begins in six weeks; a rollback executed late carries more revenue risk than the regression it fixes.
  • Two of the three critical cyber exposures sit in third-party platforms where remediation timing is not ours to set.
  • $6.1M of the $11.0M identified cost optimisation has landed; the remainder depends on a contract renegotiation that has not closed.

Not established

  • AI and data risk readiness — governance exists as policy, but nothing measures the exposure.
  • Employee technology experience — service-desk volume is recorded, but it measures activity, not experience.
  • Whether the digital experience score decline is caused by latency or by the new returns flow shipped in the same window.

The mandate frame

The CIO's KPI universe organised into seven mandates. The frame is fixed; which of it needs attention this quarter is not.

  1. 1
    Business Value
    Is technology producing measurable enterprise value?
  2. 2
    Technology Economics
    Is what we spend defensible against what it buys?
  3. 3
    Reliability & Resilience
    Can the business operate, and how fast does it recover?
  4. 4
    Cybersecurity & Risk
    Is the enterprise protected, and where is it exposed?
  5. 5
    Transformation & Delivery
    Are the CIO's major commitments healthy?
  6. 6
    AI & Digital
    Is AI producing outcomes, or only activity?
  7. 7
    Customer & Employee Experience
    What is technology doing to the people who use it?

The executive set — 16 KPIs, not thirty-five

Are we creating value? Are we economically healthy? Is the enterprise protected and resilient? Are we executing the transformation? Is AI producing measurable outcomes?

VALUE

Is technology producing measurable enterprise value?
$61.4M
FY26 YTD
Technology-enabled business value realised
+$9.2M vs prior year · favourable
Behind pace· $88.0M committed FY26
Whether technology is producing enterprise value, not activity.
Governed· Finance ledger
70%
FY26 YTD
Benefits realised vs committed
−6 pts vs Q2 · unfavourable
Behind pace· 90% of business cases
Whether investment business cases are actually materialising.
Governed· Finance ledger
$412M
FY26 YTD
Revenue influenced by technology
+3.1% vs prior year · favourable
Technology's contribution to growth, in the business's own units.
Governed· Finance ledger
$18.7M
FY26 YTD
Cost & productivity value realised
+$2.4M vs Q2 · favourable
On pace· $24.0M committed
Quantified efficiency impact that landed in actuals.
Governed· Finance ledger

COST

Is what we spend defensible against what it buys?
104.2%
FY26 YTD
IT spend vs budget
+2.8 pts vs Q2 · unfavourable
Over plan· 100% of $214M plan
Financial discipline against the approved plan.
Governed· Finance ledger
71% run / 29% change
FY26 YTD
Run vs change spend
run share +4 pts vs FY25 · unfavourable
Behind pace· 60% run by FY27
How much capacity is maintaining rather than transforming.
Governed· Finance ledger
114%
Q3 FY26
Cloud + AI consumption vs budget
+14% vs plan · unfavourable
Over plan· $38.0M annual envelope
Whether variable cost is under control.
Warehouse· BigQuery · itops

RESILIENCE

Can the business operate, and how fast does it recover?
4
Q3 FY26
Business-impacting incidents
+2 vs Q2 · unfavourable
Over threshold· ≤ 2 per quarter
Material disruption to the business, not ticket volume.
Warehouse· BigQuery · itops
99.91%
Q3 FY26
Critical-service availability
−0.06 pts vs Q2 · unfavourable
Below commitment· 99.98% committed
Whether the business can operate on the services it depends on.
Warehouse· BigQuery · itops
72 min
Q3 FY26
Mean time to recover (MTTR)
+19 min vs Q2 · unfavourable
Over target· ≤ 45 min
How quickly operations resume after a disruption.
Warehouse· BigQuery · itops

RISK

Is the enterprise protected, and where is it exposed?
3 exposures
Q3 FY26
Critical cyber risk exposure
−1 vs Q2 · favourable
Behind pace· 0 critical open > 30 days
Overall enterprise technology risk in business terms.
Reported· Q3 technology review
38
Q3 FY26
Critical vulnerabilities beyond SLA
−22 vs Q2 · favourable
Behind pace· 0 beyond 14 days
Exposure the enterprise is knowingly carrying.
Warehouse· BigQuery · itops

EXECUTION

Are the CIO's major commitments healthy?
62%
Q3 FY26
Strategic portfolio on-track
−11 pts vs Q2 · unfavourable
Behind pace· 85% on-track
Whether the CIO's major commitments are healthy.
Reported· Q3 technology review
$27.3M of $46.0M
FY26 YTD
Transformation value realised vs plan
+$5.8M vs Q2 · favourable
Behind pace· $46.0M plan
Portfolio economics: value out against investment in.
Governed· Finance ledger

AI

Is AI producing outcomes, or only activity?
$8.4M
FY26 YTD
AI value realised
+$3.1M vs Q2 · favourable
Behind pace· $21.0M committed
Enterprise return from the AI portfolio, in actuals.
Document-backed· AI portfolio review.pdf
7 of 12
Q3 FY26
AI use cases in production
+2 vs Q2 · favourable
Experiment-to-production conversion, and where value is measured.
Document-backed· AI portfolio review.pdf

The rest of the mandate (20)

Every other KPI across the seven mandates, including the 2 the company does not measure yet. Nothing is hidden — the board only decides what leads.

Business Value (1)Is technology producing measurable enterprise value?
9 of 14
Q3 FY26
Strategic initiatives meeting business outcomes
unchanged vs Q2 · steady
Whether transformations deliver the outcome that was promised.
Reported· Q3 technology review
Technology Economics (3)Is what we spend defensible against what it buys?
5.2%
FY26 YTD
IT spend as % of revenue
+0.3 pts vs FY25 · unfavourable
The overall technology cost position.
Governed· Finance ledger
$41.80
Q3 FY26
Unit infrastructure cost per 1,000 orders
+9% vs Q2 · unfavourable
Whether cost scales faster than the business it serves.
Warehouse· BigQuery · itops
$6.1M
FY26 YTD
Cost optimisation realised
+$1.3M vs Q2 · favourable
Behind pace· $11.0M identified
Savings actually captured, not merely identified.
Governed· Finance ledger
Reliability & Resilience (2)Can the business operate, and how fast does it recover?
$0.84M
Q3 FY26
Revenue impacted by downtime
+$0.51M vs Q2 · unfavourable
Converts outages into the only unit the board argues in.
Governed· Finance ledger
17 of 21
Q3 FY26
Critical services meeting SLO
−2 services vs Q2 · unfavourable
Reliability measured against what was committed.
Warehouse· BigQuery · itops
Cybersecurity & Risk (4)Is the enterprise protected, and where is it exposed?
26 min
Q3 FY26
Mean time to detect
−9 min vs Q2 · favourable
Security resilience ahead of impact.
Warehouse· BigQuery · itops
5 suppliers
Q3 FY26
Critical third-party technology risk
+2 vs Q2 · unfavourable
Vendor and ecosystem exposure carried by the estate.
Reported· Q3 technology review
92%
Q3 FY26
Critical systems protected
+5 pts vs Q2 · favourable
On pace· 100% by Q1 FY27
Control coverage across systems that matter.
Reported· Q3 technology review
AI & data risk readiness
No metric measures this yet. AI governance is documented as a policy, not as a measured position — the board says so rather than borrowing the security score.
Not measured
Transformation & Delivery (3)Are the CIO's major commitments healthy?
38 days
Q3 FY26
Time to market (idea to production)
−6 days vs Q2 · favourable
Enterprise technology velocity, not sprint output.
Warehouse· BigQuery · itops
23 of 31
FY26 YTD
Transformation milestones achieved
on plan · steady
Execution against the published roadmap.
Reported· Q3 technology review
41%
FY26 YTD
Modernisation progress (legacy estate retired)
+7 pts vs FY25 · favourable
Behind pace· 70% by FY27
The constraint the operating model will inherit.
Reported· Q3 technology review
AI & Digital (3)Is AI producing outcomes, or only activity?
6,140 users
Q3 FY26
AI active weekly usage
+31% vs Q2 · favourable
Whether delivered AI capability is actually used.
Warehouse· BigQuery · itops
$4.9M
FY26 YTD
AI productivity impact
+$1.6M vs Q2 · favourable
The business outcome behind AI adoption.
Document-backed· AI portfolio review.pdf
0.6x
FY26 YTD
AI portfolio ROI
from 0.4x in Q2 · favourable
Portfolio effectiveness: is the whole portfolio paying back yet?
Document-backed· AI portfolio review.pdf
Customer & Employee Experience (4)What is technology doing to the people who use it?
72
Q3 FY26
Digital experience score (customer)
−4 pts vs Q2 · unfavourable
Technology's effect on customers.
Warehouse· BigQuery · itops
2.9s
Q3 FY26
Mobile checkout p95 latency
+0.8s since release 7.2 · unfavourable
Over target· ≤ 1.8s
Health of a business-critical journey.
Warehouse· BigQuery · itops
48% of orders
Q3 FY26
Digital channel adoption
+3 pts vs Q2 · favourable
Whether delivered capability changed behaviour.
Warehouse· BigQuery · itops
Employee technology experience
No metric measures this yet. Service-desk ticket counts exist, but they are activity — the board refuses to present them as workforce experience.
Not measured

How this works on your own data

Resora does not hard-code thirty CIO tiles. The CIO lens reads the whole enterprise knowledge base — documents, warehouse facts, governed metrics, decisions and prior experience — maps what exists into these seven mandates, and elevates what currently requires the CIO's attention: what changed, what is at risk, and what decision it asks for. Where nothing measures a mandate, it says so.

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