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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. Zero-based budgeting can be a good approach for discretionary spending.

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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.

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8 signs you’ve mistimed a major IT initiative

CIO Business Intelligence

“Very often, IT teams don’t consider other, non-IT, activities that can affect their user base and their ability to collaborate,” says Seth Lively, US digital lead at IT consulting firm PA Consulting. Therefore, most CIOs focus on business-critical operations, since maintaining existing enterprise systems is a top priority.