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3 Ways to Make Storage a Strategic Asset for Your Organization (Not Just an IT Cost)

CIO Business Intelligence

C-level executives are most interested in strategic assets and initiatives that will advance, transform, and grow their enterprises. They continually want to make “cost centers” more efficient and more cost-effective, while investing in what will accelerate, empower, and protect the business operations and its customer base.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO Business Intelligence

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. Role growth: 30% of companies have added cloud architect roles as part of their cloud investments, according to Foundry’s survey.

Cloud 130
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A Tale of Two Surveys: What Matters in Boardroom

Future of CIO

The prestigious consulting firms and media companies published many good white papers and industry surveys regarding what matters at board level now, especially economies are not completely recovered from recession yet, businesses from the top down are looking for innovation as a new light, strategy as GPS, and IT as a new catalyst.

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The CIO's Four Views of IT KPIs

Future of CIO

IT is an integral part of the business, and every IT project is a business initiative. The detailed data becomes a base from which statistical analysis can be performed to do far more accurate financial budgeting projections, based on natural growth rates at a fine-grained level and capacity planning is more accurately predicted too.

Budget 69
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What is a managed service provider? Strategic outsourcing for IT services

CIO Business Intelligence

Managed service provider business model Managed service providers structure their business to offer technology services cheaper than what it would cost an enterprise to perform the work itself, at a higher level of quality, and with more flexibility and scalability.

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Digital KPIs: The secret to measuring transformational success

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, McKinsey suggests five metrics for digital CEOs , including the financial return on digital investments, the percentage of leaders’ incentives linked to digital, and the percentage of the annual tech budget spent on bold digital initiatives.

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CIO’s Vital Voice: Five Focal Points at Big Table

Future of CIO

Should Not : See today’s much more hyper-connected, interdependent business world as “black and white,” “nut or bolt,” or “bit or byte,” should not treat IT project as technology challenge than solving business problems; also should not do innovation for innovation’s sake. Should not : Only focus on "on time, on budget" IT driven KPIs.