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

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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. Here veteran IT leaders and advisers offer eight strategies to speed up IT modernization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To keep ahead of cybercriminals, organizations must remain agile, pivoting to embrace new strategies and technologies whenever necessary in order to outrun attacks. This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings. 1 That’s a number no CFO would want to ignore.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Department of Defense released its DoD Zero Trust Strategy, which outlines an "enhanced cybersecurity framework built upon Zero Trust principles that must be adopted across the Department, enterprise-wide, as quickly as possible as described within this document.". Earlier this month the U.S. The 37-page document was finalized Oct.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Here’s a quick rundown of seven major trends that will likely reshape your organization’s current data strategy in the days and months ahead.

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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? Fortunately, IT leaders can do both by adopting a composable ERP strategy that is focused on enabling business outcomes via flexible, best-fit technology that surrounds the existing core ERP solution.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

Softchoice develops end-to-end multi-cloud strategies and helps customers migrate to the cloud, optimize their tech stack, and modernize their operations. Softchoice’s strategies align perfectly with VMware’s portfolio and innovative solutions,” Swadish says. “We’re exclusively focused on driving the right results for customers.”

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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

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. This phase maximizes long-term value.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Sergey Kastukevich, deputy CTO of iGaming software development company SoftSwiss, says most organizations would like more flexibility in the decision-making processes, and IT needs to implement more agile processes that help business leaders respond to evolving circumstances.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud. And keep in mind seasonality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This is true whether it’s an outdated system that’s no longer vendor-supported or infrastructure that doesn’t align with a cloud-first strategy, says Carrie Rasmussen, CIO at human resources software and services firm Dayforce. A first step, Rasmussen says, is ensuring that existing tools are delivering maximum value.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2024

Modern digital organisations tend to use an agile approach to delivery, with cross-functional teams, product-based operating models , and persistent funding. But to deliver transformative initiatives, CIOs need to embrace the agile, product-based approach, and that means convincing the CFO to switch to a persistent funding model.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Complexity Continues to Increase Complexity exhausts IT budgets and workers—a widespread problem that worsened during the pandemic. According to the study, most organizations have developed specific strategies to reduce IT complexity and create operational efficiency.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Instead of succumbing to the pressure, CIOs should consider collaborative approaches: Empower and inspire agile teams by avoiding rigid delivery roadmaps, highlighting what performance improvement areas are worth focusing on, and giving teams time to reset after major releases.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2024

“They must architect technology strategy across data, security, operations, and infrastructure, teaming with business leaders — speaking their language, not tech jargon — to understand needs, imagine possibilities, identify risks, and coordinate investments.” Investing in talent and skills is also critical, he adds. “IT

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 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

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. According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.”

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Businesses scramble to optimize their IT budgets in an economic climate where every penny counts, particularly cloud expenditures. AI: A Double-Edged Sword for Your Budget AI presents a unique conundrum, particularly the dazzling realm of generative AI. “Stay up to date and remain agile,” Sandeen said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

This article presents essential strategies for CIOs to strike the optimal balance among innovation, value, cost, and practicality in tech investments. It’s crucial to ensure that these activities align with the organization’s overall technology strategy and accelerate plans rather than conflict with them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

CIOs lead digital transformation with strategic foresight, technical expertise, and a focus on cybersecurity and customer strategies. The role now requires agility to embrace and lead with emerging technologies, ensuring IT strategies are in lockstep with broader business goals. Addressing cybersecurity is paramount.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 27, 2024

The strategy unfolded through careful planning, leveraging technology to enhance the taxpayer experience and ensuring robust cybersecurity measures. APMR is key to maintaining agility in today’s fast-changing digital landscape. Now, let’s delve into the concrete steps and strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

In today’s IT landscape, organizations are confronted with the daunting task of managing complex and isolated multicloud infrastructures while being mindful of budget constraints and the need for rapid deployment—all against a backdrop of economic uncertainty and skills shortages.

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KineticData

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Key technologies like Kubernetes for container orchestration and GitHub Actions for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) have been instrumental in our automation strategy, facilitating fast, secure rollouts in both our SaaS and client-managed setups.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

CIOs need to hedge their 2025 budgets because of economic uncertainties. Leadership, AI, security, top expert recommendations.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Risk management: Perform qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, plan risk mitigation strategies. Project budgets Budgets play a large role in whether a project progresses, or if it can be completed. Budget for surprises. Develop relevant KPIs.

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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. You can be certified up to the expert level, which demonstrates high competency in ITIL 4 best practices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

5, Insufficient budget Digital transformation can be expensive, and executive leadership teams that do not allocate enough budget to the initiative may struggle to succeed. It requires a different mindset, as well as an agile, ready-to-experiment workforce that is change-savvy.

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Quality is a function of scope, budget, and resources. Agility is a model of performance without sacrificing the basic modularity of the business functions. Agility = The ability of business to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently , in response to changes in the business environment. Cutting quality REDUCES agility.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2022

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) has been around since 1995 and aims to help organize the software development process in a way that reduces errors, helps hit deadlines, stay on budget, and align with key business units. The fact that the TOGAF Standard is a living body of knowledge is one of its great advantages,” Nunn said. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2023

As the network is the proverbial on-ramp to the digital transformation freeway that stretches from edge to cloud, we believe that a more innovative, agile, optimized offering on this front will make all the difference. But it might also require a different approach to networking entirely. Want to learn more?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. More than ever, we have to be agile and be unafraid of waste. Waiting is a losing strategy.” And yet we must.

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