CIOs to Accelerate Digital Business Transformation in 2021
Information Week
JANUARY 29, 2021
With 2020 in the rearview mirror, finally, CIOs are looking at bigger budgets and an acceleration in their digital transformations.
TBM helps CIOs translate tech spending to business outcomes
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 10, 2025
More than 90% of IT leaders, in fact, expected their 2025 budgets to increase when surveyed in 2024. Cost transparency and accurate budget forecasting are two major parts of the TBM framework, Guarini says. The US Office of Management and Budget has also pushed agencies to use TBM practices since 2017.
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Stop navigating the cloud, and start shaping it
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Budgeting and forecasting. Setting budgets and forecasting future cloud expenses helps organizations plan their spending and avoid unexpected costs. Regularly reviewing and adjusting budgets based on actual usage ensures better financial control. Business transformation. Optimization and rightsizing.
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The Hidden Costs of AI Implementation: What No One Tells You
Eric D. Brown
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The remaining 70% comprises hidden costs that rarely make it into initial budgets or project proposals. Just as a savvy homebuyer looks beyond the listing price, a savvy business leader needs to look beyond the obvious costs of AI implementation. Cultural adaptation is another hidden cost that rarely makes it into initial budgets.
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The 8 new rules of IT leadership — and what they replace
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 3, 2025
Old rule: Business transformation comes first New rule: IT leads by example CIOs today aim to be business leaders first and technologists second, but sometimes they need to find opportunities for their own IT departments to lead by example, DiLorenzo says.
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Kimberly-Clark’s business-first approach to digital transformation
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 24, 2022
We actually lead with business transformation — and then we did a cloud migration as a part of that.”. It may seem a subtle distinction, but as Kumbhat stresses, delivering digital capabilities such as revenue growth management and what he calls “consumer-inspired innovation” to fuel business transformation makes all the difference. “So
5 ways for CIOs to deal with AI proliferation
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 17, 2025
of IT budgets by 2027. Dan Priest, US chief AI officer at PwC, says AI proliferation is a reality thats only going to accelerate, with 79% of CIOs planning to leverage gen AI to help transform their businesses. You cant just move to a single vendor as in the ERP days or develop policies just for physical devices.
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10 ways to kill your IT culture
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
While many CIOs have adopted agile methodologies in their technology delivery teams, there can be significant gaps with stakeholders seeking traditional project management promises of “on time, scope, budget, and quality.” Accepting team and individual underperformance Davis of Dunelm Associates shared a key culture killer.
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IBM to acquire Octo to boost its US government business
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The US Federal Government has been investing heavily in IT modernization and cybersecurity, with an estimated budget of $65 billion for 2023 for civilian IT spending, according to a White House report. While application operations and technology consulting revenue both saw an increase of 17%, business transformation revenue grew by 14%.
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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs
Forrester IT
APRIL 29, 2019
A Tech-Driven Transformation Payoff In The Face Of Food Quality Issues Chipotle is in the midst of a food quality turnaround and a digital business transformation payoff.
The extraordinary synergy of wi-fi and 5G in enterprise networks
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
As an IT leader, you deal with balancing benefits and budgets within the rapid pace of technological change every day. Dell One size does not fit all While the benefits of 5G and Wi-Fi are applicable across all businesses and industries, a one-size-fits-all approach does not apply. The benefits are extraordinary.
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Germany’s ITZBund is moving federal IT into the cloud
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. Against this background, a program was created intended to further develop the ITZBund into a multicloud manager.
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AI, predictive analytics top list of hot technologies for banks
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 2, 2022
As the name suggests, these technologies, according to Forrester, are not mature enough for banking because of regulatory and security challenges, constraints in budgets and lack of well-defined use-cases. Gartner highlights AI trend in banking. in 2022 to $623 billion globally.
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Why CIOs should invest in digital through economic headwinds
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
But released the next day, the 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey revealed that EMEA-based CIOs expect IT budgets to increase 4.4% Gartner’s managing VP Mary Mesaglio said she remained optimistic for tech investments, with the latest crisis offering CIOs yet another opportunity to “make the difference”. global inflation rate.
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3 Ways to Make Storage a Strategic Asset for Your Organization (Not Just an IT Cost)
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022
You also need to decide what to do for modern data protection and you need to figure out what to do from a replication/snapshot perspective for disaster recovery and business continuity. Use a hybrid cloud strategy to accelerate digital transformation. Reduce IT costs. Strategic consolidation of storage arrays reduces CAPEX and OPEX.
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Can the CIO role prevail over AI?
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Andy Thurai, VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research adds that AI is also used to help with budgeting, sourcing, and writing vision statements to present to the board. Nine of out 10 also said at least some of their job could be automated by AI, and nearly half said most or all of their job could be completely replaced by AI.
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The end of digital transformation and the rise of business model innovation
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 20, 2024
Investments hadn’t tied us much to business strategy and goals as they were to iterative improvements, digitization, shiny objects, unrealistic expectations, under-resourced budgets, training, expertise, and resources, and a lack of commitment to change management.
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SAP user groups see pick-up in migration to S/4HANA
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 15, 2022
The biggest driver for the move to S/4HANA, cited by 70% of survey respondents, is SAP’s plan to end maintenance support for its ECC 6 and Business Suite 7 software in December 2027.
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State of the CIO, 2023: Building business strategy
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 27, 2023
Not only are CIOs involved in digital transformation — the majority of 2023 survey respondents maintain CIOs are more likely to lead digital transformation efforts compared to their business leader counterparts — a scenario cited by 84% of IT leaders along with nearly three quarters (72%) of LOB participants.
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How to Drive Sustainable, Data-First Business With HPE GreenLake
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 28, 2022
The annual budget cycle also encourages organizations to buy and deploy equipment even if there’s not a direct need, to avoid forfeiting available IT dollars. “If For example, most IT organizations aim to hit the standard 99.999% uptime service-level agreement (SLA) and thus are inclined to overprovision to ensure redundancy and performance.
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Colocation: A Crucial Pillar for Building a Data-First Organization
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 23, 2022
Lots of attention is being paid to how hybrid IT or multicloud fits into data-first business transformation, yet plenty of companies count colocation facilities as an important pillar of their IT landscape.
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How to Drive Sustainable, Data-First Business With HPE GreenLake
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 26, 2022
The annual budget cycle also encourages organizations to buy and deploy equipment even if there’s not a direct need, to avoid forfeiting available IT dollars. “If For example, most IT organizations aim to hit the standard 99.999% uptime service-level agreement (SLA) and thus are inclined to overprovision to ensure redundancy and performance.
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Ahead: Look for a partner, not a service provider
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 23, 2023
For too many, their vision of ‘land and expand’ evolved into an unwelcome reality of ‘land and sprawl’ before they got help that drained budgets and failed to meet expectations. We’ve strived to become a close partner in our customers’ digital business transformations,” says Fortwengler. “It
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CIOs must evolve to stave off existential threat to their role
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 30, 2023
Narottam Sharma, who recently quit his role as global CIO of Indian multinational Mastek to advise enterprises on digital transformation, cuts to the heart of the issue: “Technology is getting democratization but the pace at which business is learning technology is faster than the pace at which technology is learning business.
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Albemarle supercharges employee experience with federated automation
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Our help desk at the time was about a million-dollar budget, and we had about 45 external providers,” Thompson says. “We It’s the same playbook each time — a clear vision of basic IT transformation first.” Thompson’s playbook has three chapters: First IT transformation, then business transformation, and finally digital transformation.
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How CIOs align with CFOs to build RevOps
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 24, 2024
Strategic planning, revenue enhancement, budgeting — all of those are incredibly important topics that CIOs need to work on with their CFOs,” he says. It’s too early in the process for him to talk about specifics, though, but these kinds of projects can be truly transformative. And revenue operations is part of that.
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CIO playbook: Collaborating with business leaders on their IT spend
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 1, 2022
Industry observers say IT leaders are generally not opposed to business leaders taking more ownership of tech spending. “If If you speak to the vast majority of CIOs, they’ll say those business transformations need to be led by the business leader with support from IT,’’ notes Len Riley, commercial advisory practice leader at UpperEdge.
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Convergenza IT-business: la digital transformation diventa trasformazione aziendale
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Per descrivere questo nuovo contesto gli analisti hanno coniato l’espressione “imprese convergenti”, o “business convergence”, che indica le imprese dove ogni dipartimento e ogni persona lavorano in accordo con gli altri per centrare gli stessi obiettivi e creare valore.
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Collaboration between Business and IT Leads to Innovation
Social, Agile and Transformation
OCTOBER 12, 2009
I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Collaboration between Business and IT Leads to Innovation.
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15 domande sulla trasformazione digitale alle quali ogni CIO deve rispondere
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Kamales Lardi, autrice di The Human Side of Digital Business Transformation (2022) e CEO di Lardi & Partner Consulting, raccomanda lo stesso approccio, sebbene formuli la domanda del CIO in modo diverso. Ho un budget DX e/o una tempistica di completamento?
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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The ongoing delays and costs appear not to have pleased Invacare’s board, which two weeks later nudged Monaghan out saying the company needed “a change in leadership to oversee the successful execution of Invacare’s business transformation.” The company rolled out the new ERP in January 2022, coinciding with its new fiscal year.
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Answers To An Agile FAQ: People Over Process
Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
What Our Clients Tell Us All The Time. Our organization has gone to great lengths to become Agile, and we are well on our journey, but there is friction between our org and those within the company who have not yet transitioned to Agile practices.” Agile teams feel bogged down and relevant […].
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Content Agility at Marklogic's Digital Publishing Symposium - Social.
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 6, 2008
I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Thursday, November 06, 2008. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook.
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Being a CIO: One Year Later - Social, Agile, and Transformation
Social, Agile and Transformation
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Thursday, September 22, 2011. Being a CIO: One Year Later.
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Cybersicurezza, AI, talenti: 3 grandi sfide per i CIO di oggi
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 15, 2024
Ma la cybersicurezza resta la sfida numero uno, tanto da essere una voce del budget in costante aumento, come hanno svelato i più recenti dati di IDC. I CIO sono anche consapevoli che i cyber-criminali non sono hacker isolati, ma, sempre più spesso, si tratta di realtà organizzate con budget rilevanti: di qui l’alto livello di attenzione. “La
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Talenti IT: ecco come i CIO curano l’engagement e la retention
CIO Business Intelligence
APRIL 29, 2024
“Le sirene del mercato sono allettanti: la caccia ai talenti è sempre aperta e le migliori risorse IT sanno che la domanda è alta”, evidenzia Emanuela Pignataro, Head of Business Transformation & Head of Execution di Cegos Italia. Sui corsi di formazione per il personale IT la CIO non dispone di un ampio budget.
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Why CIOs Must Negotiate before Collaboration - Social, Agile, and.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 4, 2010
I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Monday, January 04, 2010. Why CIOs Must Negotiate before Collaboration.
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Business Responsibilities working with Agile Teams Part 1 - Social.
Social, Agile and Transformation
APRIL 10, 2009
I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Business Responsibilities working with Agile Teams Part 1.
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The CIO's Dashboard
Future of CIO
JUNE 11, 2014
Typically, CIOs would need to remain on top of various parameters such as costs, production Issues (especially business critical applications), risks, technology, customer, long-term business transformation, etc.
Top 10 Guidance Tips to New CIOs and IT Leaders - Social, Agile.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 21, 2010
I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. What can I say, the first 100 days of being CIO at a new job is busy.
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What are the Real Challenges of a CIO to Build a high-performing IT?
Future of CIO
MARCH 17, 2018
The main part of the IT budget is sunk in the existing IT-systems for keeping the light on: “Keeping the light on” is always fundamental for running IT smoothly. Whilst they need to ensure their IT department keeps the lights on, continually improves and drives business transformation proactively.
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40 Leverage ”PIICC“ Model to Assess IT Performance
Future of CIO
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Performance evaluation of IT efficiency (keep the lights on) and effectiveness (top-line revenue growth, and business transformation): In reality, the IT environment is often fraught with information inconsistency, process redundancy, and platform/system overlapping. Dissatisfaction negatively impacts the overall value.
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IT Savvy Board’s Five Oversight
Future of CIO
OCTOBER 15, 2016
It must be understood that information and information technology are at the current time the focus of immense market development and pressure and key aspects of organizational development and performance throughout the business cycle. IT GRC is an integral part of the business GRC.
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Three Essential Information from an IT Management Dashboard
Future of CIO
MARCH 5, 2017
An effective CIO's dashboard should be brief enough to keep the focus on the most strategic business initiatives and the most fundamental IT functionality. Due to fast growing information and emergent digital technologies, IT becomes more significant in driving organizational changes and catalyzing business transformation.
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