CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% Bob Cournoyer, senior director of data strategy, BI, and analytics at Richmond, Va.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Why are we really going to cloud?

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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

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

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. This should secure our business strategy for the next five years and longer.”

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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 27, 2023

As we closed out 2022 and began 2023, VMware’s Research and Insights organization interviewed more than 450 technology executives to get their candid views on the topics that present enterprises with the greatest opportunities and challenges. And it underscores the complexity involved in subsequent efforts to future-proof enterprises.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 1, 2015

The total federal budget is about $3.9 Many firms with great technologies believe the size of the federal budget means there is something there for them. Our Federal Enterprise Reviews. By Bob Gourley. About $79 Billion of this is for IT. That is huge! Tip us off to your firm by using our “ Ask The CTO ” feature.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 7, 2016

Department of Transportation's CIO, describes four components for what I call an “enterprise data strategy”: Data governance. He also mentions additional factors relevant to DOT’s data strategy: The volume of data is increasing and we need to be ready for it. Balancing Tactics and Strategy. Data sharing. Data standards.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

To create a more efficient and streamlined enterprise, businesses often find themselves tempted to bring in brand new systems that promise major improvements over the status quo. This can be a viable strategy in some cases – and it will impress stakeholders that prefer to shake things up. Getting by on Small Budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

There are myriad systems kept on life support in every enterprise because companies delay replacing them, resulting in downtime and the continual need for time-consuming fixes, which consume resources and continue to build technical debt. Windows Server 2012 is not alone. that don’t mean much to key financial decision-makers.

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Kitaboo

APRIL 20, 2023

Enterprises invest a huge sum to develop an effective training program for their workforce. On an average, organizations spend 11% of their budget on learning tools and technologies. It can be done in a classroom environment with a trainer who can explain concepts and strategies. Videos hold more retention value.

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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

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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Forrester IT

AUGUST 22, 2022

Learn where you should increase or decrease your technology investments for 2023 with Forrester’s new Planning Guide for technology architecture and delivery.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

IDC forecasts the growth rate of enterprise applications software sales will pick up in 2024, and remain steady through 2027, despite a dip this year as a result of CIOs continuing to pull back on spending due to economic headwinds. Cloud is taking an ever-larger proportion of IT departments’ budgets, and the picture is no different here.

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Cloud Musings

JULY 18, 2018

A recent roundtable discussion in Washington, DC with Federal IT and Cyber leaders focused on the business drivers, challenges and evolving strategies around cybersecurity in government. Agencies that only focus their time, energy and budget on meeting various mandates are having trouble keeping up with evolving cyber threats.

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Eric D. Brown

MARCH 15, 2016

If you are involved with marketing and/or technology in any large organization, you most likely are hearing a lot about marketing technology (MarTech) and the ‘explosion’ of MarTech people, technology, projects… and budgets. Will marketing continue to grow their technology budget? Upgrade IT security. I think so.

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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

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. In fact, there are five key areas CIOs need to consider when developing an enterprise GenAI strategy, all of which become much more achievable with the right partnerships in place.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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Storage IO Blog

APRIL 24, 2014

While it would be nice to simply have SSD for everything, there are also economic budget realities to be dealt with. The post Enterprise SSHD and Flash SSD Part of an Enterprise Tiered Storage Strategy appeared first on StorageIOblog. different tiers) to support diverse application needs (e.g.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

Enterprises have been evolving toward as-a-Service models for years, but most of this transition has been executed in software, via SaaS and other subscription models. The PC-as-a-Service (PCaaS) model makes it just as efficient to deploy and support your PC fleet.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

The dynamic nature of the cloud — and the need for continually optimize operations — often drives requirements unique to a CIO’s enterprise, meaning that even some popular third-party cloud cost optimization tools may no longer fit an enterprise’s specific requirements.

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Future of CIO

APRIL 22, 2020

With the fast pace of changes and exponential growth of information, there is a danger of not having a dynamic strategy management process to develop and nurture IT-enabled business potential. The best strategies are living and ever-evolving, and when deployed, it should provide the framework for the organization going forward.

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Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Information is lifeblood in modern businesses today, however, from industry survey; a very real gap exists with just over one-third of respondents having an enterprise-wide information management strategy in place currently. What’s holding these organizations back from building out an enterprise-wide information management strategy?

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Over the last year, IT budgets saw modest growth as departments embraced mobile, cloud and virtualization in record numbers. Even where budget is available, some regions do not yet have the capacity to expand the WAN to meet the demand. – bg. Bandwidth-optimizing technologies and applications can also be good investments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. “As How well teams execute will be key.” The following eight priorities are gaining the most attention.

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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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Galido

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - Top Repricing Strategies for Maximum Amazon Sales - Information Technology Blog. Once you’ve determined what to sell on Amazon , you’ll need to make sure you have a pricing strategy in place as well as a tested Amazon Repricing tool in order to stay competitive with your e-commerce business.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While enterprise technology’s impact on the survival of the business has only accelerated, the question now is who is in charge of that. Eighty-six percent of the same respondents said groups or functions outside of IT now come with their own technology budgets. The role of CIO is in flux right now.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2024

For enterprise executives in 2024, that means right-sizing those expectations and getting to work: justifying the right use cases, forming teams, and tracking progress and ROI. Here are three strategies designed to help CIOs and others maximize their return not just on AI, but all essential tech.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This year’s technology darling and other machine learning investments have already impacted digital transformation strategies in 2023 , and boards will expect CIOs to update their AI transformation strategies frequently. Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94%

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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

APRIL 10, 2024

Cost-effective GenAI, on premises Of course, here’s something that may not be mysterious for IT leaders: building, training, and augmenting AI stacks can consume large chunks of budget. 1 Inferencing on-premises with Dell Technologies can be 75% more cost-effective than public clouds, Enterprise Strategy Group, April 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Emotionally, culturally, and psychologically data management has to be rebranded — in the words of Sumathi Thiyagarajan , VP of business strategy and analytics for the Milwaukee Bucks — as “joyous” work. There are many places in the enterprise where data spend happens. And what do enterprises gain from that?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Most CIOs at one time or another have found themselves working at an enterprise that has seriously altered course, lost its focus, neglected competitiveness, or changed in some other significantly detrimental way. Deep, unreasonable budget cuts. New initiatives and strategies are proposed and consistently rejected.

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