CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When your CEO or CFO asks about the budget needed for technical debt remediation , do you find yourself struggling to justify the investment? Our research reveals that top performers allocate around 15% of their IT budget to debt remediation. You’re not alone. Instead, show how leading companies manage it strategically.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Pre-COVID, agility became an aspiration and rallying cry for organizations seeking to embrace emerging technologies and pursue technology-enabled innovation, often to stave off digital disruption in their industries. This goes beyond implementing agile methodology. Balance control with agility. Think a step ahead.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These outdated systems are not only costly to maintain but also hinder the integration of new technologies, agility, and business value delivery. Budget constraints Barrier: IT modernization requires substantial investment, and budget constraints are a common hurdle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

Until now, many companies have cut costs in other areas, laid off staff, or raided the budgets of other departments to pay for AI projects. If you look at 23 and 2024 you had a lot of budget increases, you had a bunch of layoffs over the last couple of years, and not something thats sustainable.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

You usually can’t move the needle on everything while working within typical budgets, so instead focus on moving the needle on the one or two things that really make the most difference,” Rasmussen advises. The one thing an IT leader should never do is sprinkle investments across multiple areas, Rasmussen says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% The year 2023 seems to be no different. We obviously won’t cut investments here.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Budget planning during uncertain economic times is never CIOs’ favorite activity. For the most part, budgets are holding steady or growing in the single digits, with continued investments in security, analytics, and the cloud, among other areas. But the next eighteen months aren’t shaping up to be as challenging as some may fear.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Index showed that 50% of those surveyed have between 10% and 30% of their current IT budget dedicated to AI. “This is not deterring them, as leaders say they will not only continue to invest in AI, but actually increase their spend,” Cisco stated.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 13, 2017

This year I'm excited to be teaming up with Diego Lo Giudice on the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CIOs will need to work closely with finance teams to model different pricing scenarios and choose the options that best align with their organizations needs and budget constraints. Moreover, this shift in pricing models may require changes in how organizations budget for and manage their software expenses.

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Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Combining on-premises mainframes with hyperscalers can create an integrated operating model that enables agile practices and interoperability between applications,” researchers stated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2024

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Our organization has gone to great lengths to become Agile, and we are well on our journey, but there is friction between our org and those within the company who have not yet transitioned to Agile practices.” Agile teams feel bogged down and relevant […]. What Our Clients Tell Us All The Time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Youre losing sight of the overall aim and not respecting employee concerns Instead of viewing change management as a set of static processes, leverage it as a dynamic capability that fosters agility and resilience. Start by focusing on a current project.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

The Church of Agile is being corrupted from within by institutional forces that have refused or been unable to adapt to the radical humanity embodied in its collaborative, self-organizing, cross-functional teams. Agile wasn’t supposed to be this way. The broken promise of Agile. A sham of true Scrum.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

There is the classic method that has been used for over 40 years called “waterfall” Then there’s the new upstart in town that everyone seems to be flocking to called “agile” All of these options can place a CIO in a difficult place. Say Hello To The New Guy: Agile. Agile also has benefits.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Expectation of disruption Limited investment in cyber resilience remains a challenge, despite rising security budgets overall: nearly 49% of U.S.-based based IT leaders globally believe their budget for cyber resilience is inadequate. A lack of budget cannot be put down to a lack of evidence of need.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

When businesses migrate to public cloud, they expect to enjoy greater agility, resiliency, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. Cost-efficiency and expectations of agility should be integral to a properly orchestrated cloud-migration program. Agility is not always well understood,” explains DePerro.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 3, 2025

But I remind tech leaders that one of the biggest line items in any organization is the IT budget. CIOs must also break down siloes between teams to better support collaboration across the entire enterprise, and adopt agile development methodologies, Cameron says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

And according to the most recent Enterprise Cloud Index survey related to the recruitment and retention of cloud talent, 80% of respondents identify IT and cloud talent recruitment and retention a concern for their budgets. Despite these challenges, businesses and IT must remain agile and responsive to changing demands.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

of IT budgets by 2027. The goal should be centralized management, observability, and agility across the entire stack so you can switch out components as AI and data models, tools, and platforms evolve. It has to be Five 9s capable and agile for a still defining AI world.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In the event of eliminating or reducing agile work, 68% of Italians would remain where they are but would start looking for a new job, and 7% would leave immediately even without an alternative, according to recruiting company Hays Italia and law firm Daverio & Florio. This program has its own planning and also a dedicated budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Budgeting and forecasting. Setting budgets and forecasting future cloud expenses helps organizations plan their spending and avoid unexpected costs. Regularly reviewing and adjusting budgets based on actual usage ensures better financial control. Optimization and rightsizing. Innovation. Cons: Security concerns.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The role now requires agility to embrace and lead with emerging technologies, ensuring IT strategies are in lockstep with broader business goals. These initiatives reinforced our customer-centric IT approach, informed budget allocation, and strengthened our responsive, efficient IT strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Delivering on time and on budget Completing software projects in a timely manner while staying within budget is a long-time challenge of software development. One possible solution is to embrace the agile methodology of software development. Any number of things can happen to cause delays and drive up costs.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 29, 2019

The former have the customer base, budget, and scale that the latter crave. And startups bring speed and agility and can help enterprises experiment with emerging technologies and business models. Large corporates and startups seems like a match made in heaven.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 17, 2024

That timeframe is a sweet spot that allows us to set a dream big strategy with room to be agile, so we can deliver and push the limits of whats possible, she says. This cadence is especially important for re-evaluating budgeting, as we balance spending on new technology investments, like AI, against key infrastructure needs.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In the days of old, not very long ago, release cycles were measured in years --organizations were using "on-time" and "on-budget" as the mantra for project efficacy. Read more Categories: Agile. Agile Testing. Business today is compelled to deliver business technology in cycles of hours, or days. Robert Stroud. metrics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 3, 2024

From budget allocations to model preferences and testing methodologies, the survey unearths the areas that matter most to large, medium, and small companies, respectively. GenAI budget increases were significant, with 12% of respondents reporting an increase of more than 300% compared to the previous year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2025

Increased agility : Bringing up a new location only requires a broadband, 5G, or satellite connection. Theres no more extending the corporate network to every single location Cost efficiency : MPLS, NAC and expensive switches have long been a drain on budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Project scope During the planning phase, all project details must be solidified , including goals, deliverables, assumptions, roles, tasks, timeline, budget, resources, quality aspects, terms, and so on. Budget for surprises. Quality management: Identify quality requirements.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

An Agile and product management mindset is also necessary to foster an experimentation approach, and to move away from the desire to control data. This is why Agile and product mindset matter. When transforming, its difficult to put hard value-improvement metrics in moving from Waterfall to Agile. Thats a critical piece.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Migrate to the cloud, strengthen security, protect privacy, increase agility, advance automation, improve sustainability, optimise the budget … “explore the metaverse” is certainly on the to-do list for most CIOs, along with many, many other competing priorities. Agile Development So, how should you handle this conundrum?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. This comes after years of transformational initiatives being cited as the top reason driving budget increases. Top 10 business needs driving IT spend.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

In almost every case, there’s an increased need for data insight and technology-enabled agility to reaffirm technology’s position at the center of investment strategy in order to achieve organizational growth. Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

1) GenAI budgets are growing exponentially Adoption of GenAI varies significantly across roles and company sizes. Technical leaders are at the forefront, demonstrating higher adoption rates and driving budget increases. While 34% of all respondents reported a 10-50% budget increase for GenAI, 22% witnessed a 50-100% rise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Even 20 people in a meeting takes too long.

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