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Business → IT | IT → Business

Business → IT | IT → Business

By: Mirko Peters
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 Business → IT | IT → Business A Consultant Podcast by Mirko Peters Business talks strategy.
IT talks systems.
Most failures happen in between. In Business → IT | IT → Business, Mirko Peters—consultant working on both sides of the table—translates what business means and what IT needs. No buzzwords, no vendor talk, no politics. Each episode untangles real-world problems where strategy, technology, people, and process collide. From digital transformation and architecture decisions to misaligned expectations and costly misunderstandings—this podcast shows how business decisions become IT reality and how IT choices reshape business outcomes. Clear. Direct. Sometimes uncomfortable.
Always honest. If you work in business, IT, or anywhere in between—this podcast is for you.Mirko Peters Economics
Episodes
  • The Billing Line: How Cost Allocation Shapes Tech Decisions

    The Billing Line: How Cost Allocation Shapes Tech Decisions
    Feb 8 2026
    In most organizations the engineering ticket, the cloud bill, and the product roadmap converge at a single, underappreciated place: the billing line. Who sees and pays which costs shapes technical trade-offs, influences product choices, and quietly decides which risks are acceptable. In this episode Mirko Peters walks both sides of that aisle: the business view (budget ownership, predictability, and accountability) and the IT view (cost drivers, measurement, and operational consequences). Using a concise generalized vignette—an analytics pipeline that ballooned because costs were invisible—Mirko shows how cost signals distort decisions and create perverse incentives. Listeners get a practical Cost-Responsibility Matrix to map who feels which charges, simple heuristics to pick showback versus chargeback, and three lightweight actions teams can try this week to turn cost visibility into better decisions, not blame. Clear, non-technical, and immediately useful, the episode helps leaders treat money as signal, not sword. If this episode helps, leave a review and follow Mirko on LinkedIn.

    To continue the conversation, follow Mirko Peters on LinkedIn, where more insights and real-world examples are shared from both business and IT perspectives.
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    7 mins
  • Organizational APIs: Making Invisible Interfaces Explicit

    Organizational APIs: Making Invisible Interfaces Explicit
    Feb 7 2026
    Teams don’t just hand off code or documents; they hand off expectations: who answers questions after launch, what ‘done’ means, how data is interpreted, and which escalation path to use. These invisible interfaces — meeting rituals, implicit data formats, timing assumptions, and informal ownership norms — behave like undocumented APIs that leak cost and slow decisions. In this episode Mirko Peters examines these organizational APIs from the business view (clarity, velocity, outcome ownership) and the IT view (coupling, monitoring, implicit contracts). He uses a concise generalized vignette where timing assumptions between product, analytics, and ops turned a weekly report into a months-long firefight. Listeners get a practical pattern to identify, name, and version their organizational APIs: a lightweight contract template (responsibility, expectations, data contract, SLAs, rollback triggers) and three small rituals teams can adopt this week to make invisible interfaces explicit. If helpful, leave a review and follow Mirko on LinkedIn for the contract template.

    To continue the conversation, follow Mirko Peters on LinkedIn, where more insights and real-world examples are shared from both business and IT perspectives.
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    8 mins
  • After the Launch: Who Really Owns the Problem?

    After the Launch: Who Really Owns the Problem?
    Feb 5 2026
    Too often 'we launched it' becomes shorthand for 'someone else will fix it later.' That gap between delivery and durable ownership creates operational drag: incidents sit unresolved, product changes stall, data quality erodes, and hidden costs compound. In this episode Mirko Peters examines the mismatch from both sides—why business treats features as product milestones while IT hears 'support it forever'—and shows the common failure modes of handoffs, escalation chains, and assumed responsibilities. Using a generalized consulting vignette, he surfaces where organizations lose accountability and how that amplifies risk and cost. Listeners walk away with a compact Ownership Matrix (roles, decision rights, handback triggers), practical runbook governance rules, and three quick steps to make the next launch actually stay launched. If this episode helps, leave a review and follow Mirko on LinkedIn for the downloadable matrix and templates.

    To continue the conversation, follow Mirko Peters on LinkedIn, where more insights and real-world examples are shared from both business and IT perspectives.
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    9 mins
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