CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. The Scrum master is the leader of a Scrum team and is responsible for championing a project, providing guidance to the team and product owner, and ensuring all agile practices are followed by team members. Others do not.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. They did not refactor for flexibility.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

In almost every case, there’s an increased need for data insight and technology-enabled agility to reaffirm technology’s position at the center of investment strategy in order to achieve organizational growth. Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

5, Insufficient budget Digital transformation can be expensive, and executive leadership teams that do not allocate enough budget to the initiative may struggle to succeed. Be realistic about the costs of digital transformation and allocate sufficient human capital and financial capital to achieve your goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

During the 2008–2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and subsequent recession, researchers noted that cybercrime rates increased dramatically. Their report focused exclusively on financial cybercrime, including identity theft. This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 26, 2023

They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project. To succeed in their role, project managers must be adept at coordinating resources, managing budgets, measuring and tracking project progress, and communicating with team members and stakeholders.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But as digital transformation efforts have intensified in recent years, CIOs have had fewer opportunities to pause and reevaluate IT’s financial situation. 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.”

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 9, 2013

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2023

Schneider Electric’s IT organization achieved that goal by reducing the layers for technology- and budget-related approvals, and by trusting managers and staff to make as many of those decisions as possible within the company’s “delegation of authority pathways” framework. Financial things are a pending subject for most CIOs.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

They must articulate those ideas but also balance them against what’s technologically feasible and financially and functionally reasonable. To find a business analyst boot camp that will fit your schedule, budget and skillset, see “ 10 boot camps for business analysts.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2024

Defending this was never going to be easy at a time of constricted budgets and a shortage of technical skills. Where NIS2 rules are breached, organizations must quickly grasp the reporting requirements and possible financial penalties.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 2, 2022

Nearly 37% of survey respondents who are already using artificial intelligence in financial services consider improved operational efficiency a benefit of using AI, the report shows. Only 23% of respondents who use AI in financial services use NLP and only 19% use NLU, according to Forrester. AI enhances operational efficiency.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In banking and financial services applications, for example, GenAI solutions are being developed to analyze customer data, market data, economic trends, and more to help support highly personalized insights and guidance. This is a challenge for many CIOs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. The negative financial and competitive consequences … will be difficult to escape,” he says.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The result is a well-oiled organizational machinery that not only meets current demands but is also agile enough to adapt to future challenges. The Role of Analytics in Financial Decision-Making Financial decisions are the lifeblood of any business. It empowers you to fine-tune operations, ensuring maximum output.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

Ensuring customer success with the right cloud strategy One of Softchoice’s areas of expertise is with financial technology organizations. We were able to not only achieve results in half the original budget, but also save the customer $20 to $30 million in potential costs down the line,” says Swadish.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2022

Riccardo Galbiati, cyber advisor, Office of the CSO at Palo Alto Networks, says the biggest advantage fintechs and noebanks have over traditional, larger financial services firms in the sector is their agility. The only solution to this dilemma is to make sure that the development lifecycle of applications become ‘secure by design.’

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. How will we balance security, agility, and usability? There are other risks, too.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 24, 2023

The integration of BI into decision-making processes enhances agility, enabling companies to pivot swiftly in response to changing market dynamics. This convergence is more than a technological advancement; it’s a paradigm shift that empowers organizations to be agile, responsive, and proactive in an ever-evolving business landscape.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Trend #2: Optimizing costs and operational efficiency will be a focus for organizations looking to improve their financial position amidst an economic downturn and skills shortages. This huge step in company culture requires brave managers adopting agile principles.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Today, CEOs need to reshape the company around agile approaches, manage simplified innovation cycles and sift through a wave of virtual initiatives to effectively administer this new-age transformation. The next step is to incorporate short-term financial goals into the long-term targets discussed with all the main stakeholders.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 11, 2022

Real automation requires a transition from a waterfall mindset to an Agile approach. When change enablement is implemented using an agile mindset of experimenting, failing quickly, wire-prototyping, etc., efficiencies can be realized. C-suite partnerships bring synergistic value. What should companies do now to gain the greatest ROI?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2022

The roundtable included experts from food supply and hospitality, to financial services and software. And a participant in financial services spoke of applying a technology-first approach to CX, although he warned that’s not always popular. The meeting followed the Chatham House Rule, so not all participants can be identified.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

While new features that accelerate business agility are highly attractive, our experience suggests that the decision to refresh a network often has more to do with a customer’s desire to transition depreciated assets off their books rather than to replace products that are no longer usable. The value gained is not trivial. That’s over $1.1

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Pre-COVID, agility became an aspiration and rallying cry for organizations seeking to embrace emerging technologies and pursue technology-enabled innovation, often to stave off digital disruption in their industries. This goes beyond implementing agile methodology. Balance control with agility. Think a step ahead.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 21, 2022

If supplier or other expenses are causing strain on financial performance, how can IT be leveraged for more efficient operations?”. In Hakanson’s view, the best technology leaders are at the front lines of building agile organizations that adapt quickly in conjunction with the business.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Its algorithms can analyze data from various sources within the SAP environment, providing insights that help optimize supply chain management, financial operations, and human resources. It enhances financial security by identifying transaction anomalies that may indicate fraudulent activities. This is where AI really shines.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

During the pandemic, Chavarin began to build out the pedigree for a formal IT career path, getting multiple agile certifications and working toward a computer science degree. We offer flexible work hours, reimbursement for college classes, and have a pretty good training budget, but if it’s all about money, people can make that elsewhere.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Communicate clearly and often about policies and their reasons and benefits, create a culture of feedback and collaboration, and be agile and willing to adapt policies as user needs evolve.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

Tight budgets and labor shortages have remained an ongoing challenge for IT leaders in 2023. In fact, according to Samsara’s State of Connected Operations Report , connected operations leaders who reported the highest level of digital maturity were 6x more likely to exceed their financial goals by 25% or more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

Year Up’s pandemic experience highlighted many companies’ struggle to be agile when saddled with technical debt during a period when moving quickly can make or break the business. The problem is even more acute at large shops where roughly 40% of the enterprise IT budget is earmarked for technical debt–related spend.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2022

Balancing impact with agility . This can mean that large transformation projects may blow their budgets, potentially putting the entire organisation at risk. Threats and serious breaches from phishing, malware, human error, and corporate espionage can seriously impact an organisation financially and reputationally.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 18, 2024

Agility: Given the need to stay ahead of market events, behaviors, and disruptive trends, today’s CIO job market favors those who demonstrate flexibility and foresight, and can establish agile IT cultures. Data-driven mindset: Employers seeking new tech chiefs are targeting those who can use data to assess and evaluate key initiatives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

While CIOs must recession-proof their digital transformation priorities , underinvesting and slowing down can negatively affect customers, employees, and financial results. So the key question for CIOs is how they use this crisis to educate boards and executive committees on the fundamentals of agile software development and cloud operations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 23, 2022

Being efficient means producing high-quality, sustainable, and expected outcomes on time and on budget, says Christopher Kowalsky, an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. They become Lean and Agile.

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