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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

In a damning audit report , Grant Thornton has exposed how the project implementation turned into a cautionary tale of project mismanagement, highlighting critical failures in governance, technical oversight, and vendor management that continue to impact the councils core operations. Cost overruns and delays: where did it go wrong?

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How Kimberly-Clark’s Zack Hicks heeds the call for innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

A lot of companies that did outsourcing have found themselves in a situation where they have a lot of vendor managers versus technologists. You can vote with your budget. I also try to keep an open mind when Im meeting with suppliers and vendors to ask them those same questions about whats happening.

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

SaaS providers arent part of the FOCUS movement as much, and every vendor we bring has a different consumption model and presents their billing information in a very different way, with different levers to help contain costs, Hays says. Fortunately, she adds, theyre moving in the right direction.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

Like a conventional CIO, a full-time fractional CIO is responsible for an enterprise’s overall IT strategy and management, says Abhi Shrikhande, vice president and general manager of technology services at freelance talent network Toptal. What services do fractional CIOs provide?

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO Business Intelligence

When workforce planning is done well, these items will be known and can be easily presented as an overlay of strategic plans, current work demands, and third-party commitments through managed services, statements of work, and other agreements,” says West Monroe’s Wright. Double down on vendor management.

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Cloud Shines Brightly as Future of Disaster Response IT

Cloud Musings

learned from this event were presented on Thursday, Sept. The disaster proved the cloud’s ability, efficiency and advantages in emergency response on a national basis,” Ben Katsumi, chief researcher, Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan, concluded in a 2013 presentation at CloudScape V. 12, at the Gannett Building.

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