CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As a global survey by IFS of more than 800 manufacturing executives, 82% of manufacturers believe their company will not survive for more than one to three years if it does not become more involved with information technology. But whats stopping companies for moving digital initiatives forward?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Crushing hybrid work and work-life balance One area where CIOs should elicit IT employee feedback is around hybrid work, remote work, and any related policy changes. Conflicts between employees’ work-life balance goals and company policies or a leader’s expression of one-size-fits-all working principles can kill the IT culture.

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Agile Survey Change Management Education 352

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI. A human-centric approach helps with the change management efforts around using agentic AI while evaluating the benefits and risks. AI at Wharton reports enterprises increased their gen AI investments in 2024 by 2.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Examples of AI-powered tools going rogue or being ineffective have been quite common in the past few years as companies jumped on the hype. When it comes to AI investments, companies want results and they want them fast. Also in 2024, 42% of companies reported that their gen AI initiatives have yet to deliver meaningful results.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

Yet despite the organisational benefits, businesses are slow to modernise IT, citing challenges in integrating legacy systems due to change management and user adoption issues. But modernising its operations is a complex undertaking, especially when it underwent a complicated acquisition of three companies.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 28, 2024

I’ve spent years helping organizations implement machine learning and AI solutions , and I’ve seen firsthand how these hidden costs can blindside even the most prepared companies. The remaining 70% comprises hidden costs that rarely make it into initial budgets or project proposals. Yes, you read that right – 30%.

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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. Change management. Optimization and rightsizing. Cons: Investment.

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Cloud Strategy Government Resources 223

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The company wanted to leverage all the benefits the cloud could bring, get out of the business of managing hardware and software, and not have to deal with all the complexities around security, he says. “It Epicor has a product roadmap that Allegis is banking on to enable the company to use Prophet 21 to train tasks.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

Jay Gill, senior director of products and solutions, Pluribus Networks: Any virtualized network construct that is abstracted from underlying network infrastructure and provided by one entity to another, even within a single company, could be considered NaaS. Regulatory compliance issues: 26% Fear of losing control over change management: 25.6%

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

But as a result, anybody could then expose a lot of company data inadvertently. Business leaders can’t wait until next year for another budget to get approved.” I’ve been communicating with other managers and other IT leaders around the world, which has allowed me to discover some of the problems and ways of fixing them.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

While data and analytics were not entirely new to the company, there was no enterprise-wide approach. We developed a data-specific platform to integrate information from various departments and disparate systems across the company, with a focus on reporting to support our operations.

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Data Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 245

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Project management is a business discipline that involves applying specific processes, knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools to successfully deliver outcomes that meet project goals. Scope management: Define scope, create work breakdown structure (WBS), gather requirements. Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets.

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Project Management Tools Program Management Budget 336

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

As companies vie for talented tech workers to meet skills gaps in their organizations, the demand for certain tech roles has increased. 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.

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Project Management Devops Engineering Systems Administration 350

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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

A company that’s been around since the 1840s, Pearson has witnessed significant shifts in the education world and customer expectations. First, you end up allocating too much budget to business-as-usual infrastructure rather than investing in innovations that can drive real business growth.

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Budget Exercises Resources Education 288

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business world, companies are striving to harness the power of digital technologies to reinvent their operations, enhance customer experiences, drive innovation, and thereby create value for stakeholders. But the hard truth is that many digital initiatives fail to deliver results.

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Agile Training Budget Resources 359

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

At his company, anyway. in business administration and wrote his dissertation on digital acuity and intelligence in “incumbent companies.” Hussman, which manufactures and services commercial refrigeration equipment for food retailers globally, is a 117-year-old company. The payoff can be significant. “We

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Education Budget Fractional CTO CTO Hire 338

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 4, 2022

A chief administrative officer (CAO) is a top-level executive responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of an organization and the company’s overall performance. They typically report directly to the CEO and act as a go-between for other senior-level management and the CEO. Chief administrative officer responsibilities.

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Budget Report Financial Policies 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

A chief administrative officer (CAO) is a top-level executive responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of an organization and the company’s overall performance. They typically report directly to the CEO and act as a go-between for other senior-level management and the CEO. Chief administrative officer responsibilities.

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Budget Report Financial Policies 244

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2022

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 Every facet of our business is transforming so it’s important not to forget the value creation aspect.

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Business Transformation Retail Cloud B2C 317

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

According to Slaga, this was not fully possible when the company was a part of IBM and had to give preference to IBM’s software and services. In its latest annual report, Kyndryl cited the example of a five-year deal with a US-based healthcare services company and how this company was able to leverage these new capabilities of Bridge.

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IBM Enterprise Enterprise Healthcare 336

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

And when it comes to business and management IT jobs, 63% were classified as “high transformation” due to AI. And online education company Pluralsight conducted a survey of IT professionals in the US and UK and found that 74% worried AI tools will make many of their daily skills obsolete.

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Fractional CTO CTO Training Strategy 334

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The platform uses process mining and augments it with business context to give companies a living digital twin showing the way their business operates. Process intelligence identifies where slowdowns and bottlenecks occur so managers can speed up and, where appropriate, simplify the deployment process. Heres how it works.

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Analysis SAP System Project Management 246

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

The two companies, it states, along with an ecosystem of partners that will include IBM Consulting, intend to work together to help IBM customers transform through RISE with SAP on IBM Power Virtual Server with combined solutions, capabilities, and joint go-to-market efforts. You cant afford not to change while others move forward.

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SAP IBM Virtualization Cloud 246

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2024

The senior vice president and chief information and strategy officer at National Life Group, has spent years executing a technology roadmap to modernize the insurance company. It consistently requires a lot of change management, including the right level of engagement and collaboration with business stakeholders.”

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Strategy Survey Enterprise Enterprise 325

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Ultimately, companies will need to address challenges with ethics, bias, data inaccuracy, and more as this technology continues to advance and applications expand.” CIOs who want enterprise architects to act as sponsors should provide them with a budget and oversee the development of a charter for managing investment priorities.

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Agile Enterprise Enterprise Architecture 363

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 26, 2023

Project managers play the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing out projects. They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project.

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Project Management SCRUM Budget Agile 264

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

Using RPA tools, a company can configure software, or a “robot,” to capture and interpret applications for processing a transaction, manipulating data, triggering responses, and communicating with other digital systems. Set and manage expectations. Poor design, change management can wreak havoc.

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Artificial Intelligence Tools Enterprise Enterprise 363

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

Instead, a vast majority of companies were investing in digitization. Enterprises did not rethink their companies or models to thrive in what was quickly becoming a digital-first world. On one side, my research emphasized how customer and employee behaviors and expectations were changing.

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Strategy Research Survey Resources 362

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

To counter that, BARC recommends starting with a manageable or application-specific prototype project and then expanding across the company based on lessons learned. Doing so can help companies remain responsive, especially as they grow to a size in which it is no longer efficient for individuals to perform cross-functional tasks.

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Government Data Programming SAP 357

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

ERPs were originally designed for manufacturing companies but have since expanded to serve nearly every industry, each of which can have its own ERP peculiarities and offerings. For example, government ERP uses contract lifecycle management (CLM) rather than traditional purchasing and follows government accounting rules rather than GAAP.

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Resources Enterprise Enterprise System 299

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

When reimagining the IT estate for data-first business, the opportunity is ripe for companies to rearchitect for a more sustainable IT environment. Across the board, customers, investors, and employees want to align with companies that prioritize and execute a sustainability agenda, not just pay lip service to the latest corporate buzzword.

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Data How To Energy Data Center 259

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2023

That’s no small undertaking, and as CTO for the company, it’s Marc Hale’s core responsibility to help achieve that goal by providing a secure and stable platform on which the business can operate and innovate. “As There’s a real amount of change that comes with every change in country or role. Things change, priorities shift.

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Insurance Change Management CTO Agile 246

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. CIOs should make sure they have change management expertise on board, too. “It

Strategy 363

Strategy Cloud Applications Agile 363

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 26, 2022

When reimagining the IT estate for data-first business, the opportunity is ripe for companies to rearchitect for a more sustainable IT environment. Across the board, customers, investors, and employees want to align with companies that prioritize and execute a sustainability agenda, not just pay lip service to the latest corporate buzzword.

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Data How To Energy Data Center 244