CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2025

Ecosystem warrior: Enterprise architects manage the larger ecosystem, addressing challenges like sustainability, vendor management, compliance and risk mitigation. enterprise architects help ensure that technology investments are optimized to deliver value without exceeding budget capex and opex constraints.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

Cloud cost management tools are an answer. Budgeting, Cloud Management, Enterprise Buyer’s Guides, IT Management, Vendor Management Developer teams are learning that the pennies add up, sometimes faster than expected, and it’s time for some discipline.

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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.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 29, 2019

The former have the customer base, budget, and scale that the latter crave. Large corporates and startups seems like a match made in heaven. And startups bring speed and agility and can help enterprises experiment with emerging technologies and business models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

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. And now with low- or no-code technology and some of the new AI tools, its important that they have a base understanding of some of these technologies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

For Bryan Muehlberger, CIO at Vuori, the rise of SaaS use has also led to a corresponding rise in vendor management challenges. “We It used to be that you had 15 to 30 key vendor partners, and now it’s more than 100,” he says. It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

They review transparency and budgeting, and engage with the finance organization monthly to review trends. Fidelity also has a hub-and-spoke structure, where each business unit works with the Enterprise FinOps team. While engineers comprise most of her team, Hays also has a small number who are finance-focused.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

The smaller players are more likely to have the innovative solutions that allow an organization to get ahead of the competition, so Gupta allocates 10 to 20% of his IT budget for the more nimble suppliers. We often use them on tier two problems that could become tier one next year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

They’re required to work closely with upper management, executives, and key stakeholders to identify business needs and requirements. Systems architects are responsible for identifying technical solutions that align with the business goals and budget. Average salary: US$151,364 Increase from 2021 : 2.3% Careers, IT Jobs, Salaries

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget. Program analyst/manager Working closely with project managers, program analysts and managers oversee programs and projects within an organization to ensure they’re on track and on budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2023

One of the key steps in achieving all of the above will be vendor consolidation, and there will be a strong trend towards this in the year ahead. For example, one key piece of advice for CIOs looking at constrained budgets and inflationary pressures in the year ahead is to be open with suppliers regarding those budget constraints.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. At a previous company with a cost-effective corporate data center and infrastructure environment, Upchurch found that simply moving enterprise applications to the cloud would have decimated the budget. And the costs recur monthly or quarterly,” Upchurch says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

Double down on vendor management. To manage these relationships, IT organizations need robust vendor management processes , says West Monroe’s Wright. When working with advancing technologies such as AI, screening potential partners can take more effort. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While there is little doubt that companies have been cutting back on expenses generally in response to economic uncertainty, startups in particular have been feeling the pain of contracting budgets and reluctant investors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. Despite growing pressure to move fast, most modernization projects inch along at a snail’s pace. That’s the black swan for gen AI,” Gupta says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2023

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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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 13, 2024

Sustainability is on the rise as a CIO imperative, with most CIOs now central to their organization’s increasing focus on sustainability planning — a trend that’s shaking up what technologies IT leaders are investing in and the vendors and partners they are signing deals with.

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A CIO's Voice

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Measurement – Provide budget for staff technical training. GOAL – Identify and manage capital projects. Measurement – Budget and schedule. Network Management. Technology vendor management. GOAL – Maintain a portfolio of vendors that can provide services/products in a timely fashion. Budget control.

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

tight federal, state and local IT budgets. Jackson, NJVC Vice President and General Manager, Cloud. without sacrificing the budget it would take to support those solutions. Instead of leveraging IT budgets to maintain and upgrade hardware and software, cloud allows responders to devote more IT. Alternately, over.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

The certification covers high-level topics such as organizational structure, budgeting, managing risk, monitoring and assigning deliverables, communicating with remote teams and executives, and managing complex large-scope projects.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

Manage the implementation of the capitol project program for the facility. Manage all construction managers, consultants, vendors and management processes, i.e. budget, design, build and commissioning of capital improvements. Manage project work in the data center for equipment installations.

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Future of CIO

AUGUST 10, 2014

Begin with the CIO identifying every component of the cost associated with "keeping the lights on", then the currently approved projects by title, executive sponsor, budget, schedule, and resources dedicated to each project. Next in exactly the same format, show the requested projects for which there are no resources in the current budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Among his accomplishments at Unilever, Agrawal was responsible for rewiring sales and operations planning, financial performance management, employee experience and go-to-market deployment. A University of Mumbai and IIM-Indore alumnus, Agrawal started his IT career at Missouri-based software and services firm Amdocs. January 2021.

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Future of CIO

AUGUST 5, 2015

Knowing how to "really do" risk management, quality assurance, vendor management, etc, not just fill out templates that were originally designed to provide directions and to create thought and brainstorm. This can mean that the project overruns on time and goes over budget.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

JANUARY 16, 2019

Organization-wide, staff must be educated on security risks and resulting policies surrounding BYOD, printing, third-party software, remote workers, legacy equipment, vendor management, social engineering, outdated-training and security policies, and public or poorly protected WiFi. Of course not!

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Learn to read the signs of potential business stakeholder disinterest and work to transform stakeholders into project partners to ensure at-risk projects can be righted or a mutual decision to shelve the project can be arrived at without disrupting other IT priorities or draining more time, budget, and resources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 3, 2025

So the IT director must play a delicate role to mediate between the needs of the business, which sets the budget and demands certain financial results, and the need for skills to allow digital projects to succeed. Its not always possible to proportionately hire people as digital projects increase.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Tracks cost savings from architecture initiatives, such as through optimization of IT infrastructure, cloud usage, or vendor management. IT organizations have limited budgets to cover their existing business demands while ensuring operation support and up time. Cost and resource optimization Cost efficiency.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2025

Ultimately, when we say what the value is to the customers on that, we can help them optimize their operating and capital budgets by getting more tailored programs that suit their businesses.

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