CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Because as a young CIO, I was struggling with obtaining budget approvals for a range of IT initiatives. A majority of CIOs I speak with dread the budget approval process and breathe a welcome sigh of relief when annual budgeting comes to an end. And because of this, IT budgeters must have open ears.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2024

PNNL Photo) There’s growing concern about the nation’s ability to meet future energy demands, driven in part by the AI boom and advances in clean tech. The new Grid Storage Launchpad in Richland, Wash. A new research center in Eastern Washington hopes to provide some help. PNNL, which employs more than 6,000 people and has a $1.5

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GeekWire

AUGUST 10, 2023

The city this week released findings from a report detailing ideas for progressive taxes to help plug a budget gap that is expected to reach $221 million in 2025 and grow by another $207 million in 2026. The city council’s housing and finance committee will discuss the report findings in a meeting Thursday at 9:30 a.m. —

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

Common factors of project failure are missed deadlines, blown budgets, or deliverables that fail to meet original objectives. And they keep on top of project budgets. But what if your problem isn’t IT but with the users themselves? The meetings include managers of the user areas that are involved in the project.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

billion city budget for 2023 will not include funds sought by Mayor Bruce Harrell for gunshot detection technology. The Atlanta Police Department announced last week that it was passing on the technology after a six-month trial because it doesn’t haven’t room in its budget for the system. ShotSpotter Photo). During an Oct.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

Technical debt is what accrues when IT teams borrow against future performance to meet demands and deadlines today. Reframing technical debt There is no magic potion that can eliminate all technical debt, but technical debt can be attacked via budgeting if technical debt is not just perceived as upgrading IT infrastructure.

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Tech Republic

MARCH 15, 2023

Maximize the efficiency of your small business with a top project management solution that meets your project needs and budget. The post 6 best project management software for small businesses appeared first on TechRepublic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Tata Consultancy Services experienced its slowest profit growth since 2020 in the December quarter, and Infosys failed to meet its quarterly profit expectations. Cognizant Technology Solutions announced a full-year revenue forecast below expectations.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Performance, systems, and user acceptance testing is then done to ensure the product meets the identified requirements. This first step involves customers and key stakeholders working together to conceptualize, brainstorm, define, prioritize, resource, and budget a project, which is then approved and initiated. Next comes design.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell on Tuesday announced details of his planned 2025-26 budget, which includes $287 million collected from the Payroll Expense Tax to plug holes in the city’s general fund. Seattle’s overall budget is $8.3 and Arlington, Va. ”

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CIO Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Find out who is organizing your locality response, and invite yourself to the meetings. The Money Game I can tell you after one planning meeting with my folks, a pandemic technology response is not cheap. Your CFO or budget director should be high on your list of people to coordinate with. Be a pest if you have to.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 3, 2024

From budget allocations to model preferences and testing methodologies, the survey unearths the areas that matter most to large, medium, and small companies, respectively. GenAI budget increases were significant, with 12% of respondents reporting an increase of more than 300% compared to the previous year.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Optical networking : Up to 16 ports on the DCS511 support 400G ZR or ZR+ coherent optics, each with a 24-watt power budget. Edgecore is a contributor and active participant in the SONiC community, which has continued to expand in recent years to meet new networking requirements.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. 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.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 12, 2024

Agencies set aside a percentage of their budget for the programs. Applicants should make time to identify two to three external reviewers and to meet with the granting program officer. Get budgeting right “Make sure you give a robust budget justification. The Department of Defense and other U.S. ARC WA can help, he adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Gil is also a strong advocate for efficiency through automation, which makes sense as security teams often outnumber FinOps team members in meetings and Zoom calls. Laurent Gil, Cast AI’s co-founder and chief product officer, says such a solution helps teams manage for cost and security from the “same box.”

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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

APRIL 25, 2024

One of the main difficulties is calculating ROI to convince CFOs to approve budgets, and this challenge is also present when considering AI adoption, according to Abhishek Gupta, CIO of Dish TV. Quantifying tangible benefits such as cost savings, productivity improvements, and top-line growth is relatively straightforward.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

Make meetings matter Meetings should be consistent and brief — and foster understanding and consensus, advises Mike Fitzgerald, partner in Infosys Consulting’s CIO Advisory practice. And he says one of the most important things you can do to make meetings better is to right size the attendants list. An hour is the max,” he says.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

I just wrapped up a management review for our cybersecurity program (which is called an Information Security Management System (ISMS) in ISO 27001), and it got me thinking about how valuable these reviews are—not just for meeting compliance requirements like ISO 27001, but for driving real improvements in how we approach cybersecurity.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

To meet CIO needs, vendors will offer various options like virtual machine instances with different GPU configurations and spot instances for discounted compute power,” Richer says, adding that containerized AI frameworks can also help IT leaders ensure efficient resource utilization. The heart of generative AI lies in GPUs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Nearly half of C-suite respondents report that over 30% of tech projects are late or over budget, with one in five dissatisfied with most outcomes. The testing phase, particularly user acceptance testing (UAT), can become a labor-intensive bottleneck — and a budget breaker. And the challenges don’t end there.

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Network World

JULY 30, 2024

Budget pressure? Vendors fear complexity might eventually stall security budget growth. How well do the platforms offered meet user goals? If enterprises want their security platforms to meet their goals, the most significant step they could take is to appoint a CSO, but even that step doesn’t guarantee success.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Project management is a business discipline that involves applying specific processes, knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools to successfully deliver outcomes that meet project goals. Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Budget for surprises. What is project management? Develop relevant KPIs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2024

For instance, while the vast majority (90%) of CIOs say they have the talent they need to scale AI in their organizations, they’re not certain they’ll be able to continue meeting the talent challenge. Finally, CIOs are concerned about how their organizations will meet the challenge of responsible AI use.

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Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

What IBM calls the mainframe’s “hybrid-by-design framework” meets these challenges by intentionally aligning hybrid cloud and digital transformation, the study found. When hybrid cloud is built piecemeal, or rather by default, it leads to fragmented systems, silos, higher costs and limited innovation opportunities,” the IBV study stated.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 11, 2023

(GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle faces stronger economic headwinds compared to the rest of the country due in part to its reliance on the technology industry, according to a revenue report released by city’s budget office this week. The city’s latest budget report this month provides updated forecasts from April.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Delivering on time and on budget Completing software projects in a timely manner while staying within budget is a long-time challenge of software development. On time and on budget are much easier to judge with the finger on the pulse of expectations of both the users and the developers.” What we can’t measure we can’t improve.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

These and more were all part of the thought-provoking meetings and conversations I had at RSA. That news helped contribute to an industry-wide excitement echoed in my meetings with bankers, corporate development execs, enterprise customers, and growth-stage private equity teams about market demand, funding, and M&A activity as well.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Those are really attractive things to people who control budget,” said Shamus McGillicuddy, vice president of research covering network management at EMA, during a recent webinar. GenAI can benefit IT teams in several ways, but respondents don’t expect it to replace personnel.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2023

With our results showing that only a quarter of respondents are planning to put budget behind their network infrastructure this year, there is clearly more to be done in demonstrating the network’s value as a business-driving asset in its own right.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Improve risk, governance, and compliance with a comprehensive view of data contained in processes and interactions so it can be secured and protected to meet these regimes. The ability to “personalize” their policy and fit it into their household budget has changed the industry. Drivers can choose coverages based on price or needs.

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GeekWire

MARCH 22, 2023

(DSA Photo) Seattle’s JumpStart tax , originally passed in 2020 amid pushback from some business leaders, targets payrolls at the city’s largest companies and was designed to pay for affordable housing and homeless services, equitable economic development projects, and Green New Deal investments to help the city meet its environmental goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Refer to Windows 11 Pro specifications and run Microsoft’s PC Health Check app to see if a laptop meets specific requirements. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. Yet many IT departments are struggling to reshape themselves to better meet the mandates of today. Even 20 people in a meeting takes too long.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

. “These vulnerable workers in this under-regulated industry are calling out for us to put our money where our mouth is and fund the enforcement of the protections we have approved as a council,” Seattle councilmember Lisa Herbold, lead sponsor of the bill, said in a budget meeting last month.

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