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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI. CIO should bet on change management programs and evangelizing high-quality agents with whom employees collaborate to deliver value beyond productivity.

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Stop navigating the cloud, and start shaping it

CIO Business Intelligence

Budgeting and forecasting. Setting budgets and forecasting future cloud expenses helps organizations plan their spending and avoid unexpected costs. Regularly reviewing and adjusting budgets based on actual usage ensures better financial control. Optimization and rightsizing. Complexity.

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Storment, executive director of nonprofit FinOps Foundation, which develops best practices, education, and certification programs, adds that FinOps is about accelerating delivery, avoiding waste, and making more informed decisions on the trade-offs related to tech value. Now we have a more granular understanding of our spending, he says.

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Portland startup Candid lands $2M to help brands and retailers run their wholesale business online

GeekWire

Candid is a software program meant to help retailers with their online wholesale efforts. based startup Candid raised $2 million to help retailers and other businesses run their wholesale efforts online. Both wholesale buyers and sellers use the program. Candid Photo). New funding: Portland, Ore.-based

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Building digital fluency in the C-suite and beyond

CIO Business Intelligence

Hussman, which manufactures and services commercial refrigeration equipment for food retailers globally, is a 117-year-old company. 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.

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Washington state voters reject initiatives that aimed to repeal capital gains tax and climate program

GeekWire

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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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 10, 2024

GeekWire

. … Read More Amazon launching discount storefront ‘Amazon Haul’ with items under $20, longer delivery times Amazon is launching a new storefront aimed at delivering a wide range of products priced $20 and under as the e-commerce giant faces increased pressure from discount retailers such as Shein, TikTok Shop and Temu.

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