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5 key metrics for IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. Ensuring end-user satisfaction begins with periodic surveys to collect user feedback. Here they are.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

According to IDC’s July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending (FERS) survey of 856 senior IT and business managers in large enterprises, the IT line items most affected, in addition to rising tech salaries, include SaaS and PaaS costs. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.”

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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Seattle-area health startup One Item expands CDC-backed heart study

GeekWire

The app identifies key focus areas through a survey that asks questions about exercise, sleep, water intake, nutrition and other factors. based business consulting services company Design Laboratory, and is a former senior project manager at Microsoft.

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Getting Value From Your Data Scientists

CTOvision

Combining results from an extensive survey of analytics professionals with findings from several focus groups and consulting projects, Harris and Mehrotra identify a number of pain points, and solutions, for businesses hoping to extract value from their ever expanding mountains of data. Full article: [link].

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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Organizations that scored in the top quartile for EA maturity in a recent Bizzdesign survey were three times more likely to report having organizational agility, which has been crucial during the past few years with the COVID-19 pandemic. Enterprise architects often go on to work as a CTO, software engineering or development director, or CIO.

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO Business Intelligence

Organizations don’t want fractional allocation — people rolling on to a project and rolling off,” he explains. Establish product ownership Traditional IT project teams are no match when the goal is all about building solutions quickly and being hyper responsive to customer needs. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One.