Tips for Solving the Capacity Planning Conundrum

How do you prove the ROI of research infrastructure? MSKCC's Jessica Audette traced over $184 million in grant funding back to the platform. Watch the full episode: https://www.weka.io/resources/podcast/cancer-doesnt-care-about-your-model-deepgeeks-ep-2/ In this clip from DeepGeeks Episode 2, Jessica Audette of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center explains why capacity planning is the hardest part of her job. She breaks it into known knowns, the existing labs and workloads her team can plan around, and known unknowns, the future hires and research needs no one can forecast. The real challenge is showing the business the ROI of continued infrastructure investment. Her answer: connect the technology directly to outcomes. By delineating the grants awarded specifically because of the high-performance computing platform, she showed over $184 million in funding traced back to that investment, turning a technology need into a business justification leadership could act on. #AIInfrastructure #HealthcareAI #CancerResearch