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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. For example, she says that an iOS developer could learn eCommerce, or a web developer could study back-end infrastructure.

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Transforming IT for digital success

CIO Business Intelligence

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

The meteoric rise of generative AI is only one example of the incidents and issues that can hinder or outright halt an IT department’s delivery on strategic objectives. The increasing pace of technology advances AI is just the latest, and perhaps most prominent example of emerging technologies that have disrupted organizational roadmaps.

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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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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. For example, organizations may commit to containers that are too large, or reserve too much disk space. For example, retail sites typically have times when very few people shop.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets. We obviously won’t cut investments here.

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How Pick n Pay’s migration to the cloud is paying off

CIO Business Intelligence

At the time, we decided it was better to go with a hyperscaler because we wanted the cost-effective agility this approach would provide in the coming years. Eamonn O’Neill, Lemongrass Consulting CTO, explained the rationale: “We typically see potential cost savings of between 45% and 75% resulting from this strategy.

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