article thumbnail

Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI. times compared to 2023 but forecasts lower increases over the next two to five years. Examples include scanning invoices, extracting basic contract information, or capturing information from PDF forms.

CTO Hire 356
article thumbnail

6 ways you’re failing at change management

CIO Business Intelligence

You wouldnt hire someone who doesnt know how to write code to develop your software, so why would you expect a project manager or business analyst to drive change management? Bilow recommends creating a small OCM budget for a current project and then hiring a boutique OCM consulting firm to manage the effort.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Cost concerns put CIOs’ AI strategies on edge

CIO Business Intelligence

Since AI is new for most companies, this creates a budgeting challenge for their AI initiatives. That uncertainty creates a challenge for risk-averse companies that must work within budget constraints. Pay-as-you-go pricing is a way to reduce financial risk by not locking into long-term contracts.

Strategy 317
article thumbnail

Moderate IT budget increases have CIOs shaping 2025 strategies to suit

CIO Business Intelligence

Despite those complications, a huge majority of IT leaders expect their organizations’ IT budgets to increase — at least moderately — in the next fiscal year, with IT talent and software spending leading the way. Talent, software spending lead the way According to Forrester’s guide, personnel accounts for nearly 35% of IT budgets.

Budget 336
article thumbnail

What is a CTO? The exec who sets tech strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

article thumbnail

CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud spending is going up and budgets are tightening, so theyre asking whats going on and how do we right this ship. Cloud spending is going up and budgets are tightening, so theyre asking whats going on and how do we right this ship. And for some organizations, annual cloud spend has increased dramatically.

Cloud 349
article thumbnail

5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says.

Budget 363