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2024 Could Be A Good Year For B2B Agencies

Forrester IT

B2B companies are forecasting healthy increases in agency investments this year, according to Forrester’s Brand and Communications Survey 2024, which surveyed 205 B2B marketing leaders to understand their expectations for agency budgets over the next 12 months.

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Prioritizing cloud security: Allocating the majority of CIOs’ cyber budgets

CIO Business Intelligence

CIO’s cybersecurity budget allocations are too spread out across a myriad of single solutions. Cyber budgets get stretched too thinly across single solutions when they should match the organization’s IT and software spending priorities. the majority of its cybersecurity budget should go to protecting these investments.

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CIOs: 8 ways to trim IT budgets

Tech Republic Cloud

These eight areas will net fast budget reductions with minimal disruption to the business and headcount.

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Microsoft president: Business leaders ‘remarkably united’ in opposition to state tax proposals

GeekWire

(GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) A coalition of Washington state business leaders released a letter Wednesday urging state lawmakers to reconsider recently proposed tax and budget measures, echoing concerns raised by Gov. ” Two weeks ago, Senate Democratic budget leaders unveiled their revenue proposal for the 202527 budget. .

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5 tips for better business value from gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

According to AI at Wartons report on navigating gen AIs early years, 72% of enterprises predict gen AI budget growth over the next 12 months but slower increases over the next two to five years. But if all gen AI does is improve productivity, CIOs may be challenged long term to justify budget increases and experiments with new capabilities.

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On An Agile scaling journey ? Take our survey to find out how you are doing.

Forrester IT

So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps. Software development leaders continue to buy into Agile--while they eradicate traditional waterfall style development.

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Wealth tax proposal in Washington state reignites debate over taxes and tech talent migration

GeekWire

Jay Inslee this week proposed a new wealth tax to help generate revenue for government programs and address a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall. He also believes that high net worth individuals the people who make angel investments in startups and invest in venture capital funds will depart.

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