CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

At a time when technology innovation cycles are getting shorter, we will struggle to keep pace if we have to navigate around legacy systems that act as barriers to speed and agility. Over time the speed and agility barriers associated with the ERP spread to other systems as they, in turn, formed an expanding wave of technical debt.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Learn how organizations can become more strategic, aligned and agile when bringing offerings to market with the new version of the PMM Model.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2025

Technology investments, such as in generative AI, are a priority in addressing the need to meet rising expectations while also driving operational agility and resilience. According to our own research , organizations believe it will take an average of four years to transition to PQC, he notes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Research on creating a culture of high-performance teams suggests there’s a disconnect between how leaders perceive their cultures compared to how individual contributors view them. Driving IT’s agile adoption without stakeholder education is a culture killer because the change management responsibility trickles down to teams.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Pressure to implement AI plans is on the rise, but the readiness of enterprise networks to handle AI workloads has actually declined over the past year , according to new research from Cisco. Cisco’s second annual AI Readiness Index notes a “huge chasm” between the urgency companies feel to deploy AI and their ability to actually do it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Too often, an organization may launch something that looks like an agile program, calls itself an agile program, claims to operate like an agile program, yet really isn’t an agile program in the least.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

GenAI not only helps bridge the IT skills gap but also positions organizations to remain agile and competitive in todays fast-changing technological landscape. Learn more about IDCs research for technology leaders OR subscribe today to receive industry-leading research directly to your inbox. Contact us today to learn more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

According to research from NTT DATA , 90% of organisations acknowledge that outdated infrastructure severely curtails their capacity to integrate cutting-edge technologies, including GenAI, negatively impacts their business agility, and limits their ability to innovate. [1]

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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. Learn more about IDC’s research for technology leaders OR subscribe today to receive industry-leading research directly to your inbox. Contact us today to learn more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Where innovation and agility are key drivers of competitive advantage, traditional IT metrics that shaped IT for the past 50 years are insufficient. Learn more about IDC’s research for technology leaders OR subscribe today to receive industry-leading research directly to your inbox. Contact us today to learn more.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

It boosts innovation, creates competitive differentiation, improves efficiency, cuts waste, and makes an organization agile. Investing in process improvement isnt a nice-to-have its essential.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 3, 2025

Here, veteran CIOs, researchers, and advisers share the changes theyre seeing, offering a look at the new rules of IT leadership along with the old ones theyve replaced. In recent years theyve increasingly adopted the partner label, says Quintin McGrath, executive director of the Society for Information Management (SIM) Research Institute.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Yet strategic technology decisions, such as vendor consolidation, can help support a business’s ability to handle volatility and remain agile in challenging times. IT Leadership, Small and Medium Business

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Yet research shows Australians are already using AI without formal policies. Research from HubSpot found only 17% of Australian firms had integrated AI or AI-enhanced tools within their operations. Some senior technology leaders fear a Pandoras Box type situation with AI becoming impossible to control once unleashed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Our research shows 52% of organizations are increasing AI investments through 2025 even though, along with enterprise applications, AI is the primary contributor to tech debt. Our research reveals that top performers allocate around 15% of their IT budget to debt remediation. Instead, show how leading companies manage it strategically.

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Information Week

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Ventana Research posits that in uncertain times architecting systems, even on premises, means adopting cloud principles to be agile and adaptable.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A key way to facilitate alignment is to become agile enough to stay ahead of the curve, and be adaptive to change, Bragg advises. IT leaders also need to be agile enough to drive and support change, communicate effectively, and be transparent about current projects and initiatives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Fresh research from PWC has found that CIOs are far less likely to say that the IT function is prepared for reinvention, compared to 2023. Forresters researchers looked specifically at Security Service Edge (SSE)the category that describes the convergence of cloud-native network and data security servicesfrom Netskope.

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Network World

DECEMBER 11, 2024

And, to maintain flexibility as these algorithms evolve , companies should adopt a cryptographic agility approach, he adds, allowing them to swap out encryption methods as needed. Googles Neven, for example, suggests that researchers, engineers and developers start educating themselves.

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2024

NaaS promises to give enterprise organizations quick access to new technologies and improved performance while also filling critical skills gaps, according to EMA Research. Aruba introduces a simplified NaaS offering : Agile NaaS brings streamlined provisioning; Aruba Central gets better visibility, performance features.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Jeremy Roberts, senior director of research and content at Info-Tech Research Group, said, there is a careful conflation between modernization and the cloud. Success will also fall back on the customer adopting effective change and data management, requiring full responsibility from them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

As a business executive who has led ventures in areas such as space technology or data security and helped bridge research and industry, Ive seen first-hand how rapidly deep tech is moving from the lab into the heart of business strategy. For example, generative AI went from research milestone to widespread business adoption in barely a year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Increased security, productivity gains and enhancing innovation are among the reasons IT leaders are modernising their device fleets more frequently, new research reveals. Forrester’s research found that 55% of firms prioritised security at the hardware level when refreshing.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 27, 2021

We’ve been researching the rise of product-centricity for some time now at Forrester. In my view, it’s emerged as the primary integrated operating model response encompassing agile, DevOps, and cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2025

According to BMC research in partnership with Forbes Insight , more than 80% of IT leaders trust AI output and see a significant role for AI, including but not limited to generative AI outputs. Research respondents believe AI will positively impact IT complexity and improve business outcomes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

In addition to raising capital, we find divestitures tend to create more focused, agile and streamlined operations which are better suited to sustainable AI investing, according to Brundage and his colleagues. Divestitures can also help companies zero in on their potential and market relevance, the blog authors note.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This research found that a one-US-dollar investment in digital transformation results in an 8.3-US-dollar If these complexities can be managed, however, through multiple parties working together to develop tailored, agile and secure solutions, then this approach can deliver cost reduction, efficiency improvement and new business models.

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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. Bobby Cameron, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, says the length of IT roadmaps vary.

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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. But Bilow observes that enterprises sometimes bypass early stakeholder groups and jump straight to business user needs.

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

This is substantiated by Zscalers research wing, ThreatLabz, which determined that ransomware attacks will become more advanced and persistent. In a time when cyberthreats are growing in complexity and agility, AIs capacity for real-time surveillance and swift reaction is invaluable.

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Network World

OCTOBER 5, 2023

These capabilities can help enterprises to streamline network design, configuration and ongoing management as well as increase agility and improve performance, according to Gartner. There’s a trend toward AI capabilities that enable networking decisions to be made with little or no human intervention.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Someone has to turn it into something that can be built — specifications, Agile-style user stories, or something else that provides enough detail to make the vision real. How it works is to appoint two small teams to research the incipient vision’s viability. Smart leaders know how to avoid the worst of the rabbit holes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The complexity of IT and security infrastructure was highlighted as the greatest obstacle to achieving cyber resilience according to new research, Unlock the Resilience Factor from Zscaler. Zero trust allows security teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than maintaining outdated security controls.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.” This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. They’ve become product-centric or use-case centric,” he says.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The research firm also noted in its latest Hype Cycle for I&O Automation that during the same timeframe, 50% of enterprises will use AI functions to automate “day 2” network operations, compared with fewer than 10% in mid-2023. Increase agile skills in infrastructure and operations teams to drive continuous delivery improvement.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For many organizations, the procurement process eats up six to nine months an expensive exercise in a time of digital transformation, when both tech agility and organizational leadership define business success. It fosters agility, empowers teams to focus on meaningful work, and ensures that organizations remain competitive over time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

If you think you’re keeping up, think again: One recent study from research firm Gartner found that the majority of CEOs (59%) say digital initiatives take too long and 52% take too long to realize value. The pressure is on to accelerate digital transformation, according to CIOs, researchers, and analysts.

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