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How To Adjust Your Tech Budget To Survive Or Thrive In The Pandemic Recession

Forrester IT

The old playbook for how CIOs can manage tech budgets through tough times will not work for today’s pandemic. While CIOs and their business partners are under intense pressure to cut tech budgets, technology plays a vital role in business survival and success during this recession.

Budget 514
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How Kimberly-Clark’s Zack Hicks heeds the call for innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

A lot of companies that did outsourcing have found themselves in a situation where they have a lot of vendor managers versus technologists. You can vote with your budget. They werent just demos or prototypes they were working applications, because now with AI, they were able to build them fully as a robust application.

Strategy 279
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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience. Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget.

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3 musts when recruiting vendors for AI

CIO Business Intelligence

The smaller players are more likely to have the innovative solutions that allow an organization to get ahead of the competition, so Gupta allocates 10 to 20% of his IT budget for the more nimble suppliers. Companies who have a lot of legacy applications may find themselves on an AI journey they didnt ask for.

CTO 248
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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. This may include who owns the workload; its dependencies on other applications; who authored it or what vendors are involved; security, governance, compliance, and data requirements; and special integration or location requirements.

Strategy 363
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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO Business Intelligence

The vice president of IT is responsible for overseeing specific aspects of the organization’s IT operations, whether it’s infrastructure, security, data management, or applications. They’re required to work closely with upper management, executives, and key stakeholders to identify business needs and requirements.