CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As everyone knows, however, in business today there is no fun without the support of technology fundamentals and innovation. Leading this effort for Cedar Fair is CIO Ty Tastepe, who joined the company about two years ago and oversees its technology strategy, implementation, and operational support across all the company’s properties.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. This should secure our business strategy for the next five years and longer.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. Here veteran IT leaders and advisers offer eight strategies to speed up IT modernization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Budget planning during uncertain economic times is never CIOs’ favorite activity. For the most part, budgets are holding steady or growing in the single digits, with continued investments in security, analytics, and the cloud, among other areas. Paying more for IT labor Another key item to budget for is IT staff.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Moreover, most enterprise cloud strategies involve a variety of cloud vendors, including point-solution SaaS vendors operating in the cloud. Cloud is also so integrated in all enterprise systems today — whether it be IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS — that a cloud strategy needs to be the default assumption.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

But while the CIO is tasked with overseeing the IT department, staff, and infrastructure to support everyday operations and working with business leaders to align IT with business goals, the CTO is responsible for the overall technology strategy. Indeed lists a number of tasks a CTO might be expected to carry out.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Here’s a quick rundown of seven major trends that will likely reshape your organization’s current data strategy in the days and months ahead.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To keep ahead of cybercriminals, organizations must remain agile, pivoting to embrace new strategies and technologies whenever necessary in order to outrun attacks. When businesses are struggling due to the recession, there’s a strong temptation to look for ways to cut spending. 1 That’s a number no CFO would want to ignore.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The following are strategies you can leverage as a team to change this attitude: Leveraging data for impact One key strategy is using data to demonstrate the service desk’s influence on your organization’s bottom line. To illustrate the real-world impact of these strategies, let’s focus on Wodonga TAFE.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2022

But succeeding in the cloud can be complex, and CIOs have continued to fumble their cloud strategies in 2022 in a variety of ways, industry observers say. We have continued to evolve our cloud strategy as we gain more insight into the leverage we can gain in engineering, resilience, scaling, security, and market testing.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

Softchoice develops end-to-end multi-cloud strategies and helps customers migrate to the cloud, optimize their tech stack, and modernize their operations. Softchoice’s strategies align perfectly with VMware’s portfolio and innovative solutions,” Swadish says. “We’re exclusively focused on driving the right results for customers.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Today’s business climate is rife with economic uncertainty that is causing IT leaders to do more with less while still innovating to support the business. It’s a seemingly impossible dilemma: How to use innovation to drive business outcomes while being restrained by a reduced budget? Let’s dive in.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 24, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, companies need to stay ahead of the curve to remain competitive. Business intelligence (BI) has emerged as a key solution to help companies gain insights into their operations and market trends. What is business intelligence?

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Dataconomy

MARCH 24, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, companies need to stay ahead of the curve to remain competitive. Business intelligence (BI) has emerged as a key solution to help companies gain insights into their operations and market trends. What is business intelligence?

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Hiring to take a hit In light of prevailing economic pressures, particularly affecting user industries such as BFSI, technology, and telecom, numerous leading organizations are implementing workforce reduction strategies, pointed out Thomas George, president of Cybermedia Group and CMR.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2023

For those companies operating on a calendar year, the end of summer signals the start of annual planning and the mad dash to prepare their IT strategies. Your answers will lay the foundation for your strategy and highlight where your story needs work if you want to avoid fire drills in the eleventh hour. IT Strategy

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

Reframing technical debt There is no magic potion that can eliminate all technical debt, but technical debt can be attacked via budgeting if technical debt is not just perceived as upgrading IT infrastructure. To address this, the school district must raise funds and budget for replacing or modernizing the building.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud. And keep in mind seasonality.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2022

With a better understanding of IT complexity, large enterprises can partner with their strategic vendors to reduce IT complexity and drive more innovation and business success from it. Complexity Continues to Increase Complexity exhausts IT budgets and workers—a widespread problem that worsened during the pandemic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The company was in the final stages of refreshing our business strategy; in September 2021, we spun off from Prudential plc to become an independent public company. Our strategy was to accelerate our core competencies to position ourselves and our brand in the market. What is the strategy you eventually developed?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2024

In contrast, traditional organisations use a project-based approach to delivery, with temporary teams created on an as-needed basis for a specific purpose with budgets based on up-front funding estimates. If the scope is clear and easy to define up-front, it’s a great way to keep everyone on track and ensure teams are delivering to budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

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. Here are three strategies for getting it done. There’s a trick to this, and it’s one that, ultimately, your organization will thank you for.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 24, 2023

To help execs prepare for 2023, we just published a new report, Use Forrester’s Tech Insights And Econometrics Research To Plan For 2023, to give insight into what labor, investments, budgets, and productivity will look like this year.

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Future of CIO

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Business intelligence (BI) is the set of techniques and tools for the transformation of raw data into meaningful and useful information for business analysis purposes. Business Intelligence is about managing data. Corporate Performance Management is all about managing performance by that data.

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 24, 2023

In the modern era of data-driven decision-making, business intelligence projects have become the cornerstone for organizations aiming to harness their data for strategic insights. There are perhaps thousands of different approaches to the analysis of data, each with the potential to create new business intelligence projects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. Here’s how.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In tandem with his job as chief digital officer and senior vice president of strategy at Hussman, Seals got a Ph.D. in business administration and wrote his dissertation on digital acuity and intelligence in “incumbent companies.” When it comes to fostering digital literacy in the C-suite, Michael Seals literally wrote the book.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

Payments that spread out over time—like leasing a car or subscribing to cable services—align with your experience of consuming cloud software while affording you flexibility in how you plan your budget and allocate people resources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Building an effective GenAI strategy is about much more than launching a point solution or siloed group of tools that only work for one part of the business. Achieving that seamlessness between business functions and across geographies requires a new approach by CIOs. With the right partners, however, anything is possible.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Risk management: Perform qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, plan risk mitigation strategies. Project budgets Budgets play a large role in whether a project progresses, or if it can be completed. Budget for surprises. Develop relevant KPIs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2024

The senior vice president and chief information and strategy officer at National Life Group, has spent years executing a technology roadmap to modernize the insurance company. Case in point: Mehta, who now has the responsibility of developing National Life’s three-year enterprise strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. Waiting is a losing strategy.” Miller says his organization is making the choice to invest in growth. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

This strategy alone — achieved with the DIY approach — was responsible for saving $300,000 when his team dug into expenses surrounding Google Cloud Platform log storage, resulting in his team moving the logs to a lower tier of cloud storage and rightsizing the data they retain to adhere to retention requirements. Budgeting, Cloud Computing

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2022

While more than half (51%) of South African businesses have upped their investment in cybersecurity, it’s evident that budgets are not keeping up with needs, especially given the new threats introduced by remote work, according to a new study. Budgets must catch up to the significance of the threat.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

In almost every case, there’s an increased need for data insight and technology-enabled agility to reaffirm technology’s position at the center of investment strategy in order to achieve organizational growth. Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This enables you to do more with less—a huge benefit for educational institutions—which typically do not have access to the same resources and budgets as large enterprises. Incorporating those tools into your environment means you benefit from their security.

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