CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1%

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Case in point was the high turnover rate at road and highway maintenance company AVR Group, and the solutions enacted by its CTO Pierangelo Perdomi to remedy it. So smart working was introduced at AVR last year in the technology business unit with a different supplementary contract for different groups.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. Here’s how.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

“A pragmatic and structured architectural approach when moving to the cloud is critical,” says William Peldzus, senior director and Center of Excellence head with enterprise consulting firm Capgemini Americas. You must ensure at the start of the project that you have a full, holistic cloud budget,” Matin advises.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

Tech debt can take many forms — old applications, bloated code, and aging hardware among them — and while the issue often takes a back seat to innovation and new technology, it is on the minds of a lot of CIOs. And 47% percent of those who expect to overspend blamed excessive tech debt, including old apps. It’s not a sexy subject,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

To name a few — products and services that are delivered on time and on budget, and overall IT ROI.” Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. Metrics provide a means to monitor progress.” Here they are.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A 2022 survey of 850 IT leaders by Foundry found more than two-thirds were accelerating their cloud migration and nearly three-quarters (72%) were defaulting to cloud-based services for upgrades or new IT purchases. Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

Artificial intelligence and machine learning Unsurprisingly, AI and machine learning top the list of initiatives CIOs expect their involvement to increase in the coming year, with 80% of respondents to the State of the CIO survey saying so. Other surveys offer similar findings. 1 priority among its respondents as well. For Rev.io

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

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. Hopefully, the AI is taking some of those routine tasks,” says Henry Svendblad, CTO at Company Nurse, which helps companies handle workplace injuries. “I

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

We are giving our budget and proposed projects more scrutiny to invest in areas that have clear attribution toward generated increased revenue, more efficiencies, lower costs, and improved workplace experiences,” Srivastava says. We believe that smart technology still holds the biggest promise to improve our client’s operations,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey , conducted by PwC, predicts that one in five workers worldwide may quit their jobs in 2022 with 71% of respondents citing salary as the major driver for changing jobs. This would have not only impacted our budget but would have also created an imbalance in the IT department. IT Skills

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 21, 2024

CIOs now list innovation as the most important trait they need to bring to their role, according to a 2024 survey by professional services firm Deloitte — ahead of delivering top-line value and serving as change agents, two endeavors that require innovation to facilitate. As former CTO and head of digital at Harley-Davidson Motor Co.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 20, 2023

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Organizations don’t want fractional allocation — people rolling on to a project and rolling off,” he explains. Establishing technology and business owners also drives collaboration. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

It found that 53% of the organizations it surveyed reported that their directors are among the main decision-makers for emerging technology investments, coming in just behind their CIOs and chief technology officers. Overlooking process and the technology itself. Flying solo.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. Companies often approach this as contract-to-hire strategy,” explains Rowley. “Or CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Ahead in a broad market In Morgan Stanley’s quarterly CIO survey, 38% of CIOs expected to adopt Microsoft Copilot tools over the next 12 months. Many IT budgets are fixed, and saving time doesn’t automatically mean more money available to spend. A data leakage plan helps here too. “As It’s going to cost you a lot of money,” she says.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rebellion has also won several million dollars of military contracts from the Pentagon, the start of what some observers think will be a gusher of government dollars. The startup proclaimed to rebel against the entrenched government bureaucracy and, by extension, the military-industrial complex, in order to advance new technologies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Employees need proof IT is meeting their needs Brian Shield, SVP and CTO of the Boston Red Sox, is very proactive asking his stakeholders, “Are we meeting your needs? Every year the Red Sox IT organization conducts an Annual Quality of Service Survey. This took the form of an actual contract between the parties involved.

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