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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Consider consumption-based contracts One of the best ways to align IT costs with value-generating outcomes is with consumption-based pricing, although it may seem like a higher-cost option. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan. IT leaders may also find that some work can be insourced more cheaply.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO Business Intelligence

In July, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions. Embedded AI Embedding AI into enterprise systems that employees were already using was a trend before gen AI came along. The world has flipped since 2022,” says David McCurdy, chief enterprise architect and CTO at Insight.