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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

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.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now. But it’s not the only one.

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Accelerate Sustainable Digital Transformation in the Oil & Gas Industry

CIO Business Intelligence

In response, oil and gas majors are making headway in terms of carbon reporting, net-zero targets, and accountability. If an enterprise can do more work with less hardware, using fewer servers, licenses, and people, they save money while lowering carbon emissions. Many have even spun up renewable energy arms.

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Low-code: An Accelerator for Digital Transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile.

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Netflix’s subscriber growth slows, but company isn’t worried about running out of content

The Verge

million net subscribers in Q3, compared with the company’s 2.5m In turn, we expect paid net adds are likely to be down year over year in the first half of 2021 as compared to the big spike in paid net adds we experienced in the first half of 2020.”. They have a lot of shows that have big budgets and a niche audience.

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The CIO's Four Views of IT KPIs

Future of CIO

The detailed data becomes a base from which statistical analysis can be performed to do far more accurate financial budgeting projections, based on natural growth rates at a fine-grained level and capacity planning is more accurately predicted too. CIOs act as an intrapreneur, to ask self two questions: Question 1 : most important.

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Three “Q”s to Run a High-Mature Digital IT

Future of CIO

From PM perspective, the big Q - Quality is a function of scope, budget, and resources.This is why Agile approach involves users early in a process of creation the "things," and uses them continuously to "assure quality." In other words, more than just the IT budget). Return on IT Investment = Net Operating Profit / TCIT.

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12 famous ERP disasters, dustups and disappointments

CIO Business Intelligence

Protective packaging firm’s profit takes a knock from ERP Packaging firm Ranpak’s SAP migration was far from a disaster — it took less than a year and was delivered on time and to budget — but nevertheless initially led to disappointing results. million they paid the software giant for licenses, professional services, and training.

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