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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

CIO Business Intelligence

Modern digital organisations tend to use an agile approach to delivery, with cross-functional teams, product-based operating models , and persistent funding. But to deliver transformative initiatives, CIOs need to embrace the agile, product-based approach, and that means convincing the CFO to switch to a persistent funding model.

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Building your own web application platform is locking you in

CIO Business Intelligence

Organizations have been transitioning away from legacy, monolithic platforms as these decades-old IT systems bog down management, flexibility, and agility with their tightly entangled components. Independently developing, testing, deploying, and scaling your infrastructure requires expertise, agility, and a shift in team responsibilities.

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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO Business Intelligence

Time management: Plan and develop schedules and activities, estimate resources and timelines. Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Project budgets Budgets play a large role in whether a project progresses, or if it can be completed. Budget for surprises. Develop relevant KPIs.

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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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Aligning security and business strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

In times of economic downturn, for example, cybercrime may increase as people turn to illegal activities to make money. To keep ahead of cybercriminals, organizations must remain agile, pivoting to embrace new strategies and technologies whenever necessary in order to outrun attacks. 1 That’s a number no CFO would want to ignore.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

There is, for example, far more creativity involved in building software than is typically imagined. As Dan Moore writes in his “ Letters to a new Developer ” blog, “Even as a new developer, you’re constantly making small creative decisions (naming a variable, for example). Measure the right outputs.

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Empowering cyber resilience in education: Three strategies for the future

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, say a student receives an email from a teacher or faculty. For example, discuss the new email phishing blasts in circulation and warn people about malicious behaviors to look out for. It also offers the opportunity to leverage the latest innovations in cybersecurity, while improving your organization’s speed and agility.