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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. These will, of course, result in additional project costs and time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

of IT budgets by 2027. Of course, you want to enable the entire workforce to innovate responsibly with AI and maximize productivity by utilizing these tools. 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.

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

Almost any IT pro can benefit from adding a project management certification to their list of IT credentials, showing you have the know-how to plan, schedule, budget, execute, deliver, and report on IT initiatives. Requirements: GAQM body of knowledge study and e-course; no formal education or experience requirements. Price: $175.

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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 25, 2024

For instance, if you oversee security teams, you may want to consider the security-focused certifications, whereas if you manage an agile team, then project management and agile-focused certifications may be a better fit.

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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

MARCH 26, 2025

With emerging technologies like Gen-AI keeping organizations in a flurry of new implementations, a rapidly shifting CIO role, new innovations testing budgets and adaptability of organizations and increasing competition, a competent CIO is the ace that can change the game. Namrita prioritizes agility as a virtue.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 24, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, agility is no longer just a buzzword — it’s a business imperative. This dynamic framework offers CIOs a powerful tool to continually optimize their technology portfolios, ensuring their organizations remain agile, efficient, and future-ready.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Business analysts need a “strong understanding of regulatory and reporting requirements as well as plenty of experience in forecasting, budgeting, and financial analysis combined with understanding of key performance indicators,” according to Robert Half Technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 26, 2023

They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project. To succeed in their role, project managers must be adept at coordinating resources, managing budgets, measuring and tracking project progress, and communicating with team members and stakeholders.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2024

AI, of course, isn’t new. So, it’s no surprise that GenAI projects are prioritized for funding across budgets. And as it evolves to make IT more agile and scalable, new developer roles are emerging to support it. GenAI is one of those innovations. Could this turn IT from hero to superhero?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Of course, many enterprises land on embracing both methods, says Nicholas Merizzi, a principal at Deloitte Consulting. The demand for high agility and time to market is creating a compelling case for critical portions of their portfolios to be transformed to a more cloud-native form-factor.”. And keep in mind seasonality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

We are giving our budget and proposed projects more scrutiny to invest in areas that have clear attribution toward generated increased revenue, more efficiencies, lower costs, and improved workplace experiences,” Srivastava says. More than ever, we have to be agile and be unafraid of waste. And yet we must.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Nobody likes to be treated like a line item on the budget. Of course, the industry has matured a lot since McConnell’s book was released in 2004, and everyone pretty much understands the need for the cogitating phase of software development. Measure the right outputs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

Embrace the future-proofing imperative Eighty-three percent of IT leaders and 88% of LOB leaders expect full-year spending in 2024 to be higher or in line with original 2024 budgets despite inflation and potential recession concerns, according to IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3 (March 2024).

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Taking a platform-based approach reduces complexity, enabling CIOs to maintain a strong security posture without sacrificing speed or agility, she says. The insight garnered from these practices can inform budgeting prioritizations and influence planning around business partnerships and product trajectories.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2022

TOGAF helps organize the development process through a systematic approach aimed at reducing errors, maintaining timelines, staying on budget, and aligning IT with business units to produce quality results. There are currently eight certified TOGAF tools and 71 accredited courses offered from 70 organizations. TOGAF tools.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 9, 2023

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. There is no setting them and forgetting them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

According to Foundry’s 2023 State of the CIO Research, technology budget growth is seeing pre-pandemic levels. 91% of CIOs expect their tech budget to either increase or stay the same in 2023. Bringing agility and speed to meet the user objectives is a must. The small business budget has tripled from 2020 from $5.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It’s also about agile ways of working, and the need to be empowered.” And speaking about flying in an era of no-frills budget airlines and finding new digital means to win over customers and remain competitive, he adds that the flight is not a commodity experience. “We Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The ITZBund acts as a central IT service provider for the federal administration and operates a wide range of critical processes in the areas of transport, budget, taxes, internal security, and integration, for example.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

Year Up’s pandemic experience highlighted many companies’ struggle to be agile when saddled with technical debt during a period when moving quickly can make or break the business. The problem is even more acute at large shops where roughly 40% of the enterprise IT budget is earmarked for technical debt–related spend.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2022

That’s why it’s vital to have a strong change management plan in place, so that the company can remain agile and flexible, without interruptions or downtime. . The certification course will also count as professional development units (PDUs) for your ACMP certification. Exam fee: $3,100 for the entire course.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

Of course, no one wants to wait for a disaster to drive legacy modernizations, especially around complex operational systems. So the key question for CIOs is how they use this crisis to educate boards and executive committees on the fundamentals of agile software development and cloud operations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

It’s when it starts to impact the function of the organization that financial debt is bad, and similarly with tech — when it inhibits your agility, increases your risk, or drains your resources, that’s when tech debt is bad.” You need to have an architecture, design, and plan that allows you to course correct along the way.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 7, 2024

No one else so consistently represents customer interests, pushes engineers to adopt DevOps and Agile methodologies, and corrals individuals to execute against a roadmap. Luxury and time, of course, is only one of the reasons you might hire. No one else has the end-to-end accountability for a product like the product owner does.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 1, 2022

We made a really significant shift in our operating model to move to agile full-stack,’’ Forbes says. “We Pre-agile and operating model, you could see some of these [buying] decisions made’’ outside of IT, Forbes says. IT, of course, must work to build that trust by demonstrating this to the business. “I

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It’s a seemingly impossible dilemma: How to use innovation to drive business outcomes while being restrained by a reduced budget? A composable ERP strategy empowers businesses to be nimble, agile, and able to optimize their unique environment to achieve their desired outcomes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2024

Project managers are the front-line officers of the modern white-collar workforce who plan and organize projects, and then shepherd them to completion, making sure they don’t take too long or run over budget. That doesn’t mean you should just demand a spur-of-the-moment raise, of course. The first thing you need is data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2023

Of course, those platforms can only perform properly when the strength of the people behind them are optimized. Budget constraints, of course, are ever present and need to be worked through very closely. Setting forward a vision and being too stuck with a direction can often feel like IT is inflexible and not agile.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

Follow an agile model to iterate and deliver value over time. Building out a governance strategy based on the practices of departments that are getting it right is vital for tracking — and reining in — your cloud budget. Of course, not every IT department may be set up for DIY cloud cost optimization success.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2022

Senior tech execs gathered recently for a roundtable discussion on the growth of fintechs and neobanks in this country, the opportunities it presents, and the critical trends businesses must be aware of in 2022 when it comes to charting a course for progressing in this sector in a strong but safe way.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2024

Longtime CIO Scott Case notes that over the course your career, you’ve focused on innovation and the importance of driving business value from that innovation. You and Scott worked together at SunTrust to set up an agile culture to drive a product mindset and a focus on speed to market. You’ve got to deliver on time, on budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

With commodity prices being halved, Chevron like many of its peers in the energy space saw a consequent lowering in capital budgets. It has stayed on-course with its gradual, massive move towards adopting alternate sources of energy. It has stayed on-course with its gradual, massive move towards adopting alternate sources of energy.

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