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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

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West Monroe’s Tanowitz agrees, saying, “There’s cloud spend where immature governance approaches have resulted in excess consumption that can be reduced when a holistic cloud architecture approach is taken.” Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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2023 CIO Hall of Fame inductees on building a successful IT leadership career

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, most say they love both technology and problem-solving — a combination that often got them interested in the IT profession in the first place. For example, he took on the CTO role at Rodan + Fields because he “liked the appeal of being part of the product.” Second, be intentional. Curiosity tops his list. “I

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Why Stories Work where Requirements Documents Fail - Social.

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The document is handed to analysts who break the requirements down to development tasks and a project manager develops a schedule and assigns resources to tasks. In the real world, requirement documents are rarely complete and the software developers themselves are developing the architecture directly from the requirements document.

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Think carefully before considering cloud repatriation

CIO Business Intelligence

“While computing power and hardware costs are lower on the cloud, your approach may not allow you to enjoy these savings,” explains Neal Sample, consultant and former CIO of Northwestern Mutual. There are a lot of differences between an AWS, for example, and an Azure,” Sample adds. million from 2015 to 2016 and an additional $35.1

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Product-based IT: A blueprint for success

CIO Business Intelligence

Forrester estimates about a third of organizations have either made or are in the process of orchestrating the shift to product-centric structures with more to follow as cloud migration gives IT a platform to retool for greater business agility, according to Charles Betz, vice president and research director for enterprise architecture at Forrester.

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NASA’s newest X-plane wants to save the planet

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“We’re incredibly proud of this designation, because it means that the X-66A will be the next in a long line of experimental aircraft used to validate breakthrough designs that have transformed aviation,” said Todd Citron, Boeing chief technology officer. The similar design also has some benefits for the manufacturing process.