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

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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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Scope management: Define scope, create work breakdown structure (WBS), gather requirements. Time management: Plan and develop schedules and activities, estimate resources and timelines. Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Quality management: Identify quality requirements. Budget for surprises.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The role of a technology leader In my role, I am fortunate to have strong relationships with our senior executive team, which has been invaluable when discussing budgets, funding, and long-term strategic goals. These individuals play a pivotal role in driving change and implementing new strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Moreover, undertaking digital transformation and technology modernization programs without an architect can lead to delays, technical debt , higher costs, and security vulnerabilities. By adopting agile roles, enterprise architects can improve their ability to deliver against their specific goals and change executive perceptions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

To inform your approach, consider factors such as technical expertise, how Windows 11 Pro features support their workflows, budget constraints, and willingness to upgrade hardware. Some programs include upgrade rights to new OS versions, while others may require additional licensing fees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Kalpala also suggests testing the AI solution through a pilot program in real-world business environments. Its also important to identify challenges like data privacy, technical readiness, and organizational change management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

Skills such as software engineering, architecture, cloud, and program management are highly sought after as more companies explore creating both internal and external applications and solutions. 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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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94% Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94% Despite all that, CIOs should add generative AI initiatives to the much longer secondary list of transformation programs. These workstreams require documenting a vision, assigning leaders, and empowering teams to experiment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

The Business Application Research Center (BARC) warns that data governance is a highly complex, ongoing program, not a “big bang initiative,” and it runs the risk of participants losing trust and interest over time. The program must introduce and support standardization of enterprise data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 28, 2024

They’re not the right fit for the job The tendency in IT to promote staffers who excel as technologists into manager roles isn’t the only reason a manager may fall short of expectations. Bloom says managers who exceed expectations typically hit all their job requirements and do so in ways that deliver extra value.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives. Another is Guild Network, a program designed to foster continuous learning and development through communities of practice, Durvasula says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The executive sponsor should also be advised by an organizational change management executive, as ERP implementations result in new business processes, roles, user interfaces, and job responsibilities. Reporting to the program’s executive team should be a business project manager and an IT project manager.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

RPA scenarios range from generating an automatic response to an email to deploying thousands of bots, each programmed to automate jobs in an ERP system. Implementing RPA can be challenging, given both the potential complexity of legacy business processes and the level of change management that can be required for RPA to succeed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. Here, CIO.com outlines the most popular project management certifications that will add value and help you hone your skills this year. Price: $130.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Because of this, IT leaders must take a proactive approach to change management , communicating the benefits of digital transformation and providing support and training to employees. Invest in talent: Digital transformation requires a skilled workforce with expertise in technology, data analysis, and project management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2024

For example, McKinsey suggests five metrics for digital CEOs , including the financial return on digital investments, the percentage of leaders’ incentives linked to digital, and the percentage of the annual tech budget spent on bold digital initiatives. As a result, outcome-based metrics should be your guide.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Deployments are often extremely complex, involving specialized, high-performance hardware, rollout of use cases, change management and lengthy training cycles to help people adjust to new ways of working. The benefits of process intelligence extend beyond technical considerations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

The certification covers high-level topics such as organizational structure, budgeting, managing risk, monitoring and assigning deliverables, communicating with remote teams and executives, and managing complex large-scope projects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. Role growth: 21% of companies have added DevOps engineer roles as part of their cloud investments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Presently, enterprises are continuing with cost-optimization efforts and no big budgets for generative AI deployments have come to the fore, Slaga said, adding that proof-of-concepts (PoCs) were being actioned by the company along with projects that check the data readiness of enterprises to deploy generative AI at scale.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2024

For example, FAFSA’s launch , the United States new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) program, was delayed a year, creating havoc for many college students seeking federal tuition aid. Confirm that the financial models accurately explain budget-to-actual variances.

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Eric D. Brown

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Traditional change management approaches often fail because they focus on processes rather than people. Develop mentorship programs that pair tech-savvy employees with those who need more support. Culture: Creating a Safe Space for Change The cultural challenge of AI transformation runs deeper than most leaders realize.

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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. They also face challenges finding enough workers experienced in working with old programming languages, such as COBOL.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. At a previous company with a cost-effective corporate data center and infrastructure environment, Upchurch found that simply moving enterprise applications to the cloud would have decimated the budget. And the costs recur monthly or quarterly,” Upchurch says.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 18, 2021

TM Forum member Brad Pruner, Senior Director – Digital Transformation, Salesforce, offers key takeaways from 25 years of experience in the telecoms industry, which includes spearheading a multi-phased value chain transformation program for a communications service provider (CSP) in Canada. Use a modular scope & approach.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Trust One is also knee deep in transforming its IT organization and operating model, transitioning away from a program management office (PMO) to a product-centered organization. “No matter how agile you are, you are solving different problems for customers in different ways unless you are organized by product and are customer backed.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 12, 2023

They possess extraordinary organizational skills Top-notch project managers are highly organized individuals. But it’s not just about making a list and sticking with it,” says Hema Tatineni, vice president of the Strategic Programs Office at CopperPoint Insurance. That awareness is needed more today than ever before.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2024

The uses of storytelling Storytelling can be used to persuade senior executives to release budget, plot a change in strategy, or share good and bad news. The consulting giant said it was buying the 29-person, London-based company to help clients articulate and activate their vision and change strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2022

One of the key technology shifts that has shaped cybersecurity programs is the move to? This significant mind shift not only impacts how a program is designed, but where and how budget is applied. CIOs should: . Each C-suite member is uniquely impacted by cyber technology: . Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) ?–

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Anyone repeating the 70% failure rate for change programs should immediately arouse some suspicion. This would indicate that for nearly 20 years managers have been condoning and embarking on something which is known to fail 70% of the time. No change can be forced, let it unfold.

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Future of CIO

JUNE 5, 2017

As every successful change program or the business transformation should follow the 'Golden Circle' starting with the WHY? WHAT: To reinvent IT reputation, the CIO has a role in selling the merits of IT to the business and quantifying change management in terms of ROI, and be confident about what IT can deliver.

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Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Change planning: Organizational change management needs to go hand-in-hand with strategy management nowadays. A Strategy for "change" should focus on betterment. Planning is an effective way to achieve change if planning effort in integrated with normal management practices.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 15, 2011

And I hope that change-management and organizational design models will mature to the level of technology models so that "turn-key" process change and skill development will accompany the product sale. The enterprise has to ask these questions before forging ahead with a chargeback program.

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Cloud Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

Most agencies want to leverage congressionally appropriate funds to help them transition to a more economic IT consumption model that can be funded through their operational budgets. Data center consolidation efforts, however, are typically a reaction to budget cuts and are based on the need to reduce agency capital expenditures.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 10, 2019

The change must be defined in its base elements and associated benefits to be achieved via financial, market share, or productivity perspectives. Overall speaking, Change Management has a very low success rate, how do you assess an organization that is ready for change? How can you measure change readiness?

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Managing change incrementalism as the daily tasks: Today’s organizations are far from perfect, there are ineffectiveness, dysfunction, overlapping, complication, silo, gaps, infighting, and inefficiencies, unhealthy competition, etc., Thus, change management as a competency needs to reside in all areas of business where change happens.

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