IT Toolbox

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The post Corporate Finance for Beginners: Forecast vs. Budget appeared first on Spiceworks Inc. Financial planning techniques help your team make decisions that align with the company's overall goals. At the same time, you'll ensure that you're also making fiscally responsible choices.

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Information Week

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Developing and managing a network budget is hard work for network professionals, who often get hit with new projects that they know nothing about. Is there a better way to manage network spending?

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Forrester surveyed digital business strategy decision-makers globally on their priorities, investments, and organizational structures.

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Information Week

JULY 26, 2023

CISOs are at the forefront of securing an adequate budget for cybersecurity. Five leaders share their advice about budgeting challenges and strategies.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 25, 2022

As part of Forrester’s TIER series, we monitor market trends and analyze how these trends may effect IT budget strategy. Over the past few weeks, we looked into capex/opex trends leading up to, through, and out of the pandemic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This approach not only ensures wise expenditure of remaining budgets but also significantly strengthens organizational security postures. Addressing Training Budgets: Year-End Budget Scenario: It’s common for organizations to approach year-end with an unused budget designated for training.

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The post The State of AI in the Enterprise 2023: AI-Related Investment as a % of Annual IT Budgets appeared first on Spiceworks. Uncover the secrets of effective enterprise AI investments. Are you on the right track?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of cultivating an AI strategy is choosing use cases to bring to life. Can you deliver your applications on time and on budget? For many of you, this is the white-knuckle time; the wrong decision can set your GenAI strategy back months. What model(s) do you choose?

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Forrester IT

MARCH 2, 2023

High-growth companies see brand activation as a vital part of their strategy — even in economic uncertainty. Here are some of the ways that these organizations prioritize it.

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Computer Weekly

MARCH 8, 2017

The government has launched its 5G mobile strategy to coincide with Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Spring Budget, and has revealed more details of its planned broadband investment

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 22, 2024

As CIOs gear up for 2025, the landscape is more uncertain than ever. While inflation has eased in many parts of the world, APAC’s unique economic dynamics—ranging from commodity price exposure to varying fiscal policies—will keep inflation higher compared to the U.S.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 24, 2022

Read Forrester’s advice on where to invest, where to cut, and where to experiment to create a smart B2C marketing budget in 2023.

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Information Week

MARCH 2, 2023

Here are some strategies to reel in SaaS spending. C-suite executives and IT leaders must be vigilant when it comes to understanding cost inefficiencies and wasted spend.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

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IT Toolbox

JANUARY 18, 2024

Optimize cloud spending and embrace hybrid strategies for efficient computing in tightening budgets. The post Making the Most of a Cloudy Forecast appeared first on Spiceworks.

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Vox

AUGUST 8, 2024

There’s never a bad time to think about budgeting your money, but one could argue that the week of a stock market meltdown and renewed anxiety of a recession is the best time. So let’s talk about budgeting. The name stands for You Need a Budget, and it’s fiercely popular with a certain set of personal finance enthusiasts on Reddit.

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IT Toolbox

MAY 18, 2017

Even if your company is taking advantage of the latest, most cost-effective enterprise resource planning (ERP) software available, it’s still possible—even probable—that it will spend outside its ERP budget. Various factors come into play to explain this cost overrun, including hidden fees and poor planning.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

With cyberattacks on the rise, government agencies and enterprises alike are challenged to ramp up cybersecurity protections—often with limited budgets and resources. Leading practitioners advise focusing on maximizing efficiency and prioritizing initiatives with the highest security ROI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A report issued Monday by private investment company Bain Capital indicated that, despite the numerous disruptions to the technology industry—including a global supply chain crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—most IT decision makers foresee either stable budgets or increases for the coming year. Budgeting, IT Strategy

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Following are ways CIOs can help overcome disconnect in the C-suite on the evolving nature of their role in an effort to better enable support for their digital strategies. The dialogue with the board and with human resources is fruitful, and the managers are receptive, which greatly facilitates the digital strategy.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2024

For these data to be utilized effectively, the right mix of skills, budget, and resources is necessary to derive the best outcomes. The data preparation process should take place alongside a long-term strategy built around GenAI use cases, such as content creation, digital assistants, and code generation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

Twenty-plus years in, CIOs have discovered that, when it comes to IT, everything is going to need a strategy. As CIO, you need a data strategy. You need a cloud strategy. You need a security strategy. Just this past year another strategy must-have arrived to upend nearly every organization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2024

Organizations spend an average of 30% of their IT budgets and investing on technical debt management. The right hiring strategy can help organizations reduce labor costs, and then reassign labor savings toward addressing technical debt,” he says. “The Sutton recommends three strategies to help keep technical debt in check.

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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% Bob Cournoyer, senior director of data strategy, BI, and analytics at Richmond, Va.-based

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Hot on the heels of Forrester’s release of our definition of modern Zero Trust, the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo entitled Moving the US Government toward Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles. What a time to be alive! Coincidence? A Big Deal? If executed as mandated, not only will […].

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there. Let's take a closer look at some key cybersecurity strategies for nonprofits to consider.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2024

As organizations worldwide prepare to spend over $40 billion in core IT (technology budgeted and overseen by central IT) on GenAI in 2024 (per IDC’s Worldwide Core IT Spending for GenAI Forecast, 2023-2027 , January 2024), there’s an urgent need to manage the risks associated with these investments.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

These leaders are being asked to deliver operational excellence with reduced budgets and resources. This time of year, I’m talking to many marketing operations leaders about fiscal-year planning — revenue planning, marketing planning, and campaign planning. And yet the work of marketing hasn’t changed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2024

Gen AI has become a priority tool across all industries for all types of companies, where up to 40% have a budget or related gen AI initiatives, and 30% believe this technology is disruptive to the business, according to recent data from IDC. But it’s still early days since ChatGPT burst on the scene in 2022.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Budget planning during uncertain economic times is never CIOs’ favorite activity. For the most part, budgets are holding steady or growing in the single digits, with continued investments in security, analytics, and the cloud, among other areas. Paying more for IT labor Another key item to budget for is IT staff.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 29, 2024

C’è un ruolo molto importante che il CIO può giocare oggi nella sua azienda: guidare le strategie di riduzione di costi. Budget stretto: tutte le aree in cui fare efficienza Per Thomas De Pace, CIO con diverse esperienze di gestione dell’IT nel mondo industriale, il contenimento dei costi è stato un leitmotiv.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 13, 2024

As portfolio marketing and product management leaders head into budget planning season, use these four action items to guide your work.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2024

Leroy Merlin CIO and head of e-commerce and marketplace strategy Dmitriy Anderson admits that profitability keeps him up at night, particularly when it comes to new business endeavors like the Leroy Merlin product marketplace.

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Forrester IT

MAY 13, 2024

In Forrester’s Marketing Survey, 2024, nearly 900 global B2B Marketing executives and operations leaders indicated they expected an overall Marketing budget increase. Breaking that down further, 67% expected their technology budget to increase, 62% anticipated a larger programs budget, and even 59% projected to spend more on personnel.

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