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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Are You Using a Cloud Experience to Boost Business Value?

CIO Business Intelligence

When Diminishing Returns Become Budget Busters For years enterprises scrambled to build applications in public cloud environments; there was legitimate business value in rapid innovation, deployment and scalability, as well as unfettered access to more geographical regions.

Cloud 317
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Minimizing the negative impact of IT through design and circularity

CIO Business Intelligence

While new features that accelerate business agility are highly attractive, our experience suggests that the decision to refresh a network often has more to do with a customer’s desire to transition depreciated assets off their books rather than to replace products that are no longer usable. That’s over $1.1

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Is IT Budget Planning Still Too Yesterday

Future of CIO

Effective budgeting management, can flex to changing business needs. However, from a recently released IW survey report, IT budgeting process in many organizations still stuck in the past, half think their company’s budget process isn’t consistently flexible enough for changing business needs.

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What is Six Sigma? Streamlining quality management

CIO Business Intelligence

Incorporating Lean into Six Sigma brings a heightened focus on reducing waste, defects, and variance, while also staying ahead of schedule and under budget. This lean methodology helps organizations stay more agile and flexible while also focusing on establishing long-term processes.

Training 242
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6 ways to drive Wi-Fi operational efficiencies

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s why I wasn’t surprised that a recent survey from IDC[1] showed that IT leaders are taking a measured approach: Keep budgets stable while at the same time building in flexibility should the macroeconomic environment change significantly. Cloud-based network management also better aligns spend through a subscription, OpEx-driven model.

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DevOps and Hybrid Infrastructure Synergy

Cloud Musings

While agile software development and the use of automated infrastructure configuration tools stand proudly in the DevOps spotlight, little has been said about the actual infrastructure that modern tools such as Puppet and Chef automate. In fact, DevOps is to software as IT service brokerage is to infrastructure.

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