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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Overspending is easy to do,” says Chris McMasters, CIO at the City of Corona, California. 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.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Today we face the harsh reality of cloud costs, if not done right,” says Jay Upchurch, executive vice president and CIO at SAS. Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. There are other risks, too.

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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

CIO Business Intelligence

The reality is often the most popular or well-known new security solution can waste money and slow the business, especially if it doesn’t align with business goals. He didn’t realize his job was not just to suggest a bunch of new security capabilities, but business enablement. to reach more than $188.3 billion this year.

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The CIO's Four Views of IT KPIs

Future of CIO

Here are four views of KPIs, from IT cost breakdown to IT Performance quadrant; from PMO measure to business capability metrics. Performance is measured at many different levels in the hierarchies, by region of the world, country, the line of business, business unit, account, program, senior VP, junior VP and so on.

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5 more lessons that CIOs learned in 2017 (Part 2)

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: As we start a new year, it helps to reflect on (and learn from) the past year. What are the most important lessons that IT leaders and CIOs learned (or should have learned) in 2017? In this two-part article, we’re taking a step back and reflecting on the past year from a CIO perspective.

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10 digital transformation questions every CIO must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

Those who are falling short may have missed signs indicating the need to tack and set a new course. They came up with the following 10. Consequently, CIOs need to be clear on the outcomes their initiatives will deliver and that they can measure and report on those outcomes in top- and/or bottom-line figures.

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Ten Symptoms/Root Causes of Poorly-Run IT Department

Future of CIO

Failure to deliver value in the eyes of the internal and external customers is a failure of IT leadership and a failure of whomever the CIO reports to. The majority of IT organizations today still stick to reactive mode, and at the lower level of maturity. IT d oes not understand the business' life cycle and plans accordingly.

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