CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a nonprofit professional association, considers the business analyst “an agent of change,” writing that business analysis “is a disciplined approach for introducing and managing change to organizations, whether they are for-profit businesses, governments, or non-profits.”

Analysis 125

Analysis SAP Budget Tools 125

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. It requires a different mindset, as well as an agile, ready-to-experiment workforce that is change-savvy.

Agile 134

Agile Training Budget Resources 134

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s been seven years since Steve Hodgkinson began the task of leading complex digital transformation programs at the Victoria Department of Health as CIO. At the Victoria Department of Health, Hodgkinson championed agile methodologies — which were recognised across the Victoria public sector.

Budget 82

Budget Agile Government Programming 82

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

We are giving our budget and proposed projects more scrutiny to invest in areas that have clear attribution toward generated increased revenue, more efficiencies, lower costs, and improved workplace experiences,” Srivastava says. More than ever, we have to be agile and be unafraid of waste. And yet we must.

Budget 117

Budget Security Fractional CTO Healthcare 117

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2024

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

Agile 85

Agile SCRUM Devops Project Management 85

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. This comes after years of transformational initiatives being cited as the top reason driving budget increases. Top 10 business needs driving IT spend.

Budget 135

Budget Research Cloud Security 135

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

He also wanted to structure a set of governing policies in which each team must answer questions about the cloud resources they use, the expense associated with their use, and other management options for their resources. Follow an agile model to iterate and deliver value over time. Budgeting, Cloud Computing

Tools 105

Tools Cloud Resources Financial 105

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Likely, they will need to exploit all the latest tools provided by cloud and data partner ecosystems to manage, govern, scale, analyze, and secure their data before they can deliver these types of solutions. Self-funding mechanisms, although feasible, are often not suited for large-scale transformation efforts and faster time-to-market needs.

Artificial Intelligence 123

Artificial Intelligence Strategy Cloud Data 123

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.”

Training 129

Training Pharmaceuticals Programming SAP 129

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It’s also about agile ways of working, and the need to be empowered.” As with so many major change programs taking place in business at present, the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic was the trigger. “It It really became apparent there was something lacking in our landscape,” he says. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

Airlines 111

Airlines Travel Groups CTO 111

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.

Strategy 137

Strategy Cloud Applications Agile 137

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.

Survey 121

Survey Budget Government Examples 121

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2022

TOGAF helps organize the development process through a systematic approach aimed at reducing errors, maintaining timelines, staying on budget, and aligning IT with business units to produce quality results. Businesses can, however, have tools, software or training programs certified by The Open Group.

Architecture 88

Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Groups 88

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2022

They can do that, for example, by adopting true agile principles where business and developers work collaboratively and iteratively side by side. Those things aren’t necessarily new, but they’re more important now than ever before,” says Hamit, a member of the Emerging Trends Working Group with the IT governance association ISACA.

Cloud 143

Cloud Data Strategy Enterprise 143

Cloud Musings

MAY 30, 2013

trillion in automatic spending cuts from the Federal budget over the next ten years. About $85B of these cuts will occur by September of 2013 - and these cuts are being disproportionately applied: Once you exempt the sacred programs, what’s less sacred (like Federal I.T. It got our attention because the impact of it is $1.2

Cloud 104

Cloud Budget Government Resources 104

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. When you release control you get more back,” he says.

Financial 112

Financial Architecture Policies Budget 112

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

Predicting the next big threat or the next big opportunity is becoming increasingly difficult, especially when challenged by a plethora of technology options, fierce competition, talent-sourcing shortages and limited budgets. The Differentiators. This helps global teams to scale experiments to pilot projects and pilots to large deployments.

Infosys 77

Infosys Enterprise Enterprise Programming 77

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

Business units eager to move quickly took discretionary departmental budgets and plowed them into as-a-Service offerings that meant they no longer needed to wait on IT. What would happen if it was put through a public GenAI program, or if it was placed into a private hosted instance where authorized personnel abused trusted access?

Dell 80

Dell Cloud Data Government 80

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 20, 2023

CIO enablement Historically, CIOs have been vital enablers during times of major change, championing e-commerce, digital transformation or agile ways of working. This represents an important transition toward independent ESG program management and away from dependence on ESG consultants and service providers.

Fractional CTO 83

Fractional CTO Energy Insurance Strategy 83

CTOvision

JANUARY 7, 2016

Department of Transportation's CIO, describes four components for what I call an “enterprise data strategy”: Data governance. The costs for developing and adopting standards to facilitate data sharing and analysis will also vary and may have cost and schedule implications at the project, program, enterprise, and industry or community levels.

Project Management 150

Project Management Big Data Strategy Data 150

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

It all reduces the ability to arrive at a budget settlement that shifts resources into the health and social care space. On the value of people: To continue delivering and working through priorities for our trusts, and make the digital journey achievable is we have to recognize that projects and programs are just a means to an end.

Social 90

Social System Insurance Healthcare 90

Cloud Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

In the executive summary he pointed to cloud computing as a key component of the US Federal Government’s information technology modernization efforts: “Cloud computing has the potential to play a major part in addressing these inefficiencies and improving government service delivery.

Cloud 70

Cloud Data Center Applications Resources 70

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. Many of the ICT concepts outlined here align with our strategic customer technology programs. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Network 72

Network Security Examples Strategy 72

Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

An IT organization has three dimensions to focus on: Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Agility. How to build the conditions inside an IT organization and use social business, cloud, and agile approach to making it happen? Often o ld IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization. Follow us at: @Pearl_Zhu.

Agile 40

Agile Resources Budget Change Management 40

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Incorporating Lean into Six Sigma brings a heightened focus on reducing waste, defects, and variance, while also staying ahead of schedule and under budget. This lean methodology helps organizations stay more agile and flexible while also focusing on establishing long-term processes.

Training 71

Training Strategy Programming Examples 71

Future of CIO

MARCH 31, 2013

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. For instance, IT will measure CPU utilization, disk utilization, program defects. Each has a different focus.

Budget 69

Budget Project Management Resources .Net 69

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

Almost any IT pro can benefit from adding a project management certification to their list of IT credentials, showing you have the know-how to plan, schedule, budget, execute, deliver, and report on IT initiatives. The exam covers topics including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD).

Project Management 109

Project Management SCRUM Agile Program Management 109

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2011

The federal government is currently deploying a federal community cloud. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) expects this community to provide approximately $20 billion in cloud computing services to a community made up of more than 25 agencies. GovCloud: Cloud Computing for the Business of Government. Its nice though.

Cloud 167

Cloud Resources Government Study 167

Future of CIO

AUGUST 5, 2015

Additionally, the ability to be agile and adapt to the changes -- because change happens. When dealing with large and complex projects you need to make sure that you have everything in place and good and dedicated sponsorship is essential as is governance. This can mean that the project overruns on time and goes over budget.

Quality Assurance 40

Quality Assurance Agile Vendor Management .Net 40

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs. “We

Fractional CTO 114

Fractional CTO Agile CTO Hire SCRUM 114

Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

IT governance is a vector of quality, for both the maturity of process and outcome. Governance has been one of those concepts that have received a lot of "lip service," the speed of business is accelerated, opportunities and risks coexist, governance needs to be a complementary part of strategic management.

Government 40

Government Agile Construction System 40

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Vakrangee, a Mumbai-based provider of banking and e-governance services, has appointed Prashanth Thakur as senior vice president and head of technology and digital. He has over 25 years of experience in banking and financial services, including service delivery, portfolio and program management, risk and controls, and information security.

Fractional CTO 97

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Banking 97

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2024

Besides sourcing talent and upskilling current team members in AI technologies, CIOs in 2024 will need to partner with business leaders to develop programs that will help all employees adapt to the new ways of working, Jandron says. The first step should be establishing strong governance practices across the data landscape , Shanko says.

Training 138

Training Data CTO Development 138

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

One is a governance layer that includes activities such as financial operations — also known as FinOps — to control costs and manage budgeting for the cloud. This, in turn, can make them more agile, provide faster time to market, and help drive innovation.”. Effective CloudOps [helps] to mitigate this.

Cloud 95

Cloud Fractional CTO Applications Devops 95

CTOvision

JULY 25, 2016

This includes the ability to effectively prioritize internal budgets and resources, and facilitate a realistic approach toward assessing network defense effectiveness.”. “Instead of reviewing every component of an agency’s internal enterprise, we are trying to show what the adversary sees in order to give an organization a true ‘risk profile.’

Big Data 150

Big Data Enterprise Enterprise Data 150

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 8, 2022

If the resources responsible for keeping things up and running are the same as those responsible for transforming the company, it stands to reason that the company’s innovative activities will stall, and its capacity calculations will prove an unreliable input to its strategy and budget. Have discussions with your teams.

Resources 110

Resources Groups Sports Budget 110

Cloud Musings

AUGUST 21, 2013

In a late July memo the Office of Management and Budget requested cloud services brokerage. Rather, OMB requested increased use of evidence in 2015 budget. proposals and in evaluation of existing programs to, in the words of. agency leadership, “continually improve program performance by applying. expanded budgets.

Cloud 77

Cloud Budget Programming Financial 77