CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Good data engineering enables transparency, visibility, and accurate budgeting and forecasting. IDC is a wholly owned subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG Inc.), Bob Multhaup is an adjunct research advisor with IDCs IT Executive Programs (IEP), focusing on IT business and financial management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Mark Brooks, who became CIO of Reinsurance Group of America in 2023, did just that, and restructured the technology organization to support the platform, redefined the programs success metrics, and proved to the board that IT is a good steward of the dollar. The enterprise architecture function is a new group at RGA.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2025

The lack of representation of LGBTQ+ and BIPOC tech workers at these events soon got him thinking about ways he could help build and foster community for underrepresented groups in tech. The first is to create opportunities for queer technologists to break into or advance in the tech industry through cohort style programs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Stakeholder expectations Stakeholders can be any person or group with a vested stake in the success of a project, program, or portfolio, including team members, functional groups, sponsors, vendors, and customers. Budget for surprises. Develop relevant KPIs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 8, 2024

On the IT front, group CIO Marcelo Dantas and his team look after technology across the entire business, which includes product engineering, service, security and infrastructure. As part of their onboarding, it’s important to train them on cybersecurity and programs to help educate them. It’s the same with offboarding.

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Network World

OCTOBER 9, 2024

It’s generally a three-horse race with Broadcom, BMC, and IBM with other smaller players across various mainframe disciplines,” explains Stephen Elliot, group vice president at IDC. Customers should be able to benefit from the improved focus,” Elliot says, including a more targeted allocation of people, budgets and other resources. “As

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2024

You see poor or inconsistent communication between all these groups involved. As a CIO, youre always being asked to do more with less in terms of budget and staffing. I was in the ROTC program at MIT, and when I came out, I was assigned to a research lab on the outskirts of Boston, Air Force Cambridge Research Lab.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

This isnt surprising given that gen AI investments alone are expected to grow some 60%over the next three years, according to the Boston Consulting Group, accounting, on average, for 7.6% of IT budgets by 2027. For responsible AI innovation to work well, youll need your corporate innovation program to function flawlessly.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Cultivating high-performance teams , recruiting leaders, retaining talent, and continuously improving digital KPIs are hallmarks of strong IT cultures — but their metrics lag the CIO’s culture-improving programs. Before long, you will have a silent and frustrated group of employees.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

1) GenAI budgets are growing exponentially Adoption of GenAI varies significantly across roles and company sizes. Technical leaders are at the forefront, demonstrating higher adoption rates and driving budget increases. While 34% of all respondents reported a 10-50% budget increase for GenAI, 22% witnessed a 50-100% rise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

While we do have people that are regionally focused, the remainder of my roughly 1,400 direct team members are working on a global scope, for global programs. We also run mentoring programs and place a strong emphasis on providing real-time feedback. You can vote with your budget. I want to vote for all of them.

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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

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

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. Moreover, fostering a culture of collaboration across diverse groups enhances the overall team dynamic.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2021

Ballmer Group Photo). Ballmer Group , an organization created by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his wife Connie, is donating $38 million over the next few years to create and strengthen multiple programs that support mental health services. Steve and Connie Ballmer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2023

Project managers view change management as the process used to obtain approval for changes to the scope, timeline, or budget of a project. While each group has its own approaches, frameworks, and language, these groups all address the human side of change in organizational contexts. Sponsorship is critical.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. This comes after years of transformational initiatives being cited as the top reason driving budget increases. Top 10 business needs driving IT spend.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

. … Read More A proposed capital gains tax in Seattle draws mixed response from tech leaders and city lawmakers Members of the Seattle City Council’s Select Budget Committee on Wednesday debated a newly proposed 2% capital gains tax to support food and housing programs for the city’s low- and middle-income residents.

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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. Many organizations create program charters for strategic initiatives in which they define the program’s leadership roles and accountabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 19, 2024

They now also contain SAP Datasphere, to provide seamless access to mission-critical data from both ERP and third-party sources, and SAP Analytics Cloud for planning, which enables customers to use data from all their systems for financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting, along with SAP Business Network.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) Washington state voters rejected initiatives that would have axed a capital gains tax and a program to reduce carbon emissions. billion over two years , pays for public education, early learning programs and school construction. An election box in Seattle. PT on Tuesday. PT on Tuesday.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 10, 2022

Since the pandemic, NaaS solutions are growing quickly due to the need for a hybrid workforce, the demand for CapEx during off-budget cycles, and the shortage of employees with a networking skill set. . Choosing pre-owned equipment where appropriate can help expand budget for innovation projects where new technology is absolutely required.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Knowing this was coming, I responded, “On average, most organizations spend around 3-6% of their IT budget on security.” Security spend as a percentage of IT budget is meaningless without understanding your overall IT investment.” It’s easy to say that 3-6% of an IT budget should be allocated to security. But I wasn’t finished.

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CTOvision

APRIL 24, 2014

We expect President Obama will join a unanimous Congress, the Government Accountability Office , the tech industry , all of the major nonprofit transparency advocacy groups and open data advocates from across the spectrum — and sign the DATA Act. That pilot program will terminate two years later (or three years after enactment).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2024

Embrace the future-proofing imperative Eighty-three percent of IT leaders and 88% of LOB leaders expect full-year spending in 2024 to be higher or in line with original 2024 budgets despite inflation and potential recession concerns, according to IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3 (March 2024).

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The September Monthly Threat Intelligence Report from cybersecurity firm NCC Group delivers plenty of reasons to worry. That has CIOs like Taylor up late, thinking about their budgets, reconsidering priority lists, and making sure they’re not overextended. That situation gave budget and credibility to everyone in IT.

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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. Additionally, when her group is looking to do an innovative project, “it’s much easier to justify and trust IT … and be allowed to fail.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 24, 2024

According to IDC’s April 2024 Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 4 , companies are increasingly allocating budgets to explore technologies like generative AI, with 53% increasing IT budgets and 30% shifting budgets from digital transformation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2024

Numerous SAFe certifications are on offer, grouped at the foundational, intermediate, and advanced levels. SAFe Agilist The SAFe Agilist certification works best for a program or project manager , Scrum master , team lead, release train engineer, change agent, or others who are part of a Lean transformation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

Almost any IT pro can benefit from adding a project management certification to their list of IT credentials, showing you have the know-how to plan, schedule, budget, execute, deliver, and report on IT initiatives. The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD).

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Project Management SCRUM Agile Program Management 279

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2024

Opportunities not realized before SBB, unlike Deutsche Bahn, is an integrated group that brings together passenger and freight transport, infrastructure, and real estate under a single roof, which facilitates the planning and implementation of investments and innovations.

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Artificial Intelligence Real Estate Training Transportation 279

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The latest piece in her reinvention story is Synchrony’s new Tech Apprenticeship for Artificial Intelligence, a full-time, 12-month program that balances on-the-job learning with instructor-led training, providing Chavarin with a pathway into one of the most coveted technology spaces despite her very nontraditional IT background.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

An AI agent is a program that can perform tasks autonomously and interact with its environment to achieve specific goals.” For large enterprise organizations, NIM microservices offer tools for developing and scaling AI in alignment with their AI vision, goals, maturity and budget.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings. This can be a challenge to cyber budgets in organizations where security is viewed primarily as a cost center. However, for another smaller group of CFOs, cybersecurity is viewed as an area to discover potential savings.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Chertoff Group. Government Executive Media Group. Office of Management and Budget. Deputy Director for Intelligence for Strategic Programs. Deputy Program Manager. Office of the Program Manager, Information Sharing Environment. Assistant Director for Intelligence Programs and National Security Systems.

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Fractional CTO Security Report CTO 277

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2022

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is an enterprise architecture methodology that offers a high-level framework for enterprise software development. The Open Group developed TOGAF in 1995, and by 2016, 80% of Global 50 companies and 60% of Fortune 500 companies used the framework. TOGAF definition. The TOGAF 9.2

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Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Agile 277

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As with so many major change programs taking place in business at present, the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic was the trigger. “It And speaking about flying in an era of no-frills budget airlines and finding new digital means to win over customers and remain competitive, he adds that the flight is not a commodity experience. “We

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