I would overall agree with this, tbh, and having an understanding of this makes my work place tick. Our team lead - a real strategist - can take very abstract

I would overall agree with this, tbh, and having an understanding of this makes my work place tick. Our team lead - a real strategist - can take very abstract company goals, of "reduce cost, and increase profit, but mostly be more efficient with your costs" and turn them.. I think one step more concrete: "Can we finish projects to stop renting servers, or do we have simple projects that could increase utilization of systems we pay for?" And suddenly some operator is like "Oh yeah, if we could get Team X to do Y, I could shift load around and end up losing 1/3 of the systems I need for Team X". And then it's back to the strategist to figure out if the amount of manpower necessary is worth the reduced overall cost. And maybe we do, or maybe we dont.