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The lazy CIO’s guide to better IT investment

CIO Business Intelligence

At a rough guess the CIO of an average-size enterprise, following this methodology, would be ready to launch sometime in 2026. Reframe the conversation Thats when its time for you as CIO to have a tough conversation with the Powers That Be about the IT budget. To fix the challenges we face well need a bigger budget.

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Balancing the costs and opportunities of GenAI adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping how businesses operate, offering unprecedented opportunities for greater efficiency, streamlined operations, revolutionized customer service, and enhanced decision-making. million in 2026, covering infrastructure, models, applications, and services. million in 2025 to $7.45

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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

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By 2026, hyperscalers will have spent more on AI-optimized servers than they will have spent on any other server until then, Lovelock predicts. Free the AI At the same time, most organizations will spend a small percentage of their IT budgets on gen AI software deployments, Lovelock says. Next year, that spending is not going away.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). Premises-based telephony will see the most significant slowdown in investment as businesses decide to defer their upgrades and replacements.”

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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

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The system, intended to streamline payments and HR processes, is now unlikely to function correctly before 2026 four years after its 2022 launch. Licensing and customization fees added further strain to the budget. The project involved replacing the city councils long-standing SAP system with Oracle Cloud.

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How resilient CIOs future-proof to mitigate risks

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Considering that over half of tech providers plan to allocate R&D and investments toward AI and automation through 2026, building IT resiliency is critical, says Rajavel. The insight garnered from these practices can inform budgeting prioritizations and influence planning around business partnerships and product trajectories.

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Buying advice for CIOs as low-code/no-code spending rises

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A broad spectrum of tools has arisen to facilitate software development in the enterprise, from no-code platforms like Bubble and low-code drag-and-drop tools , both stand-alone and integrated into enterprise applications, to intelligent tools that use machine learning to suggest lines of code to professional developers as they work.