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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

A Tech-Driven Transformation Payoff In The Face Of Food Quality Issues Chipotle is in the midst of a food quality turnaround and a digital business transformation payoff.

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IBM to acquire Octo to boost its US government business

CIO Business Intelligence

The US Federal Government has been investing heavily in IT modernization and cybersecurity, with an estimated budget of $65 billion for 2023 for civilian IT spending, according to a White House report. Its consulting business alone has acquired 13 companies to boost its offerings. Mergers and Acquisitions.

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Is IT Budget Planning Still Too Yesterday

Future of CIO

Effective budgeting management, can flex to changing business needs. However, from a recently released IW survey report, IT budgeting process in many organizations still stuck in the past, half think their company’s budget process isn’t consistently flexible enough for changing business needs.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Nonetheless, companies need to ensure that valuable corporate data is always available. Perform a comprehensive analysis of your corporate data, determine what data needs to be encrypted and infused with cyber resilience and what doesn’t, and figure out how the protection needs to keep your company in compliance. Reduce IT costs.

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Answers To An Agile FAQ: People Over Process

Forrester IT

Our organization has gone to great lengths to become Agile, and we are well on our journey, but there is friction between our org and those within the company who have not yet transitioned to Agile practices.” What Our Clients Tell Us All The Time. Agile teams feel bogged down and relevant […].

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Why CIOs should invest in digital through economic headwinds

CIO Business Intelligence

But released the next day, the 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey revealed that EMEA-based CIOs expect IT budgets to increase 4.4% Gartner’s managing VP Mary Mesaglio said she remained optimistic for tech investments, with the latest crisis offering CIOs yet another opportunity to “make the difference”. global inflation rate.

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What are the Real Challenges of a CIO to Build a high-performing IT?

Future of CIO

The main part of the IT budget is sunk in the existing IT-systems for keeping the light on: “Keeping the light on” is always fundamental for running IT smoothly. Unfortunately, many IT organizations play as the controller and have been perceived as the change laggard in their company.

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