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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval. In other words, how much business risk does your company run if it can’t find (or train) employees into the jobs it needs to be done?

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What the Digital Operational Resilience Act means for you

CIO Business Intelligence

Implement a periodic review of ICT Business Continuity Policy and ICT Disaster Recovery Policy: Implementing a regular review cadence for ICT business continuity and disaster recovery policies is crucial for effective risk management oversight.

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Top 8 ways to improve cybersecurity for your organization

CIO Business Intelligence

As you plan your security budget, know that your recommendations to improve cybersecurity will be scrutinized more than ever before. No budget is unlimited. Align your cybersecurity program to business goals and financial impact. Now might be a good time to transform from a focus on cybersecurity to business security.

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How strategic partnerships are the key to AI-driven innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

In banking and financial services applications, for example, GenAI solutions are being developed to analyze customer data, market data, economic trends, and more to help support highly personalized insights and guidance. This can be particularly challenging in heavily regulated industries such as healthcare, insurance, and finance.

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Business continuity planning: A proactive approach to threat management

CIO Business Intelligence

Events like this highlight the importance of developing contingency plans based on events in the world that can impact businesses. Business continuity is an essential part of the planning process for CIOs and CTOs. Black swan events can impact businesses in significant ways. Build work diversity.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Software licensing situation cloudy If NASA serves as an example of an overly cautious government agency paying for software it may not be using just in case, cloud service provider Nutanix was rocked by a scandal this May when it emerged that the company was taking the opposite approach to software licensing.

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IBM and AWS Partnership Accelerates Cloud Modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

Typically, this journey requires strategically coordinating many overlapping objectives in line with clearly defined business outcomes and orchestrated without disrupting business continuity. When you take all those things into consideration, it’s not always feasible to rewrite an application completely and redesign it.”.

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