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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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 20, 2020

My colleague Joe Stanhope and I have previously written about how The Future Of Enterprise Marketing Technology hinges on marketing alignment with customer experience (CX) strategies. But brands must Align Strategy And Technology To Deliver Next-Gen Personalization, and […].

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Forrester IT

MAY 19, 2020

Having the right HCM technology to transform your organization’s people and workforce strategies are no longer ‘nice […]. With COVID-19, this dissatisfaction is now acute and digital workforce transformation has accelerated.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In a groundbreaking move, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has unveiled a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy that aims to safeguard the state's critical infrastructure, specifically its healthcare sector. These draft regulations build upon the statewide cybersecurity strategy Governor Hochul released in August.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance. Double down on vendor management. IT Skills, IT Strategy, Outsourcing

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2024

Step by step Once Travelex had a clear idea of the type of data platform they wanted to create, they adopted an iterative strategy to bring the idea to life. CIO, Data Management, Data Quality, ICT Partners, IT Leadership, Travel and Hospitality Industry, Vendor Management

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SecureWorld News

MAY 3, 2023

Michael Skelton ( Codingo ), Senior Director of Security Operations at Bugcrowd : "To minimize threat risks from fourth and fifth parties in the supply chain, organizations should implement robust vendor management practices, including due diligence, security posture monitoring, and clear communication channels.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience. Companies need qualified CTOs, CIOs, vice presidents, and directors who are focused on developing and overseeing the business’ overall technology strategy and goals.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Given the current rate of client conversion, fewer than 50% of SAP ECC customers will have completed their transformation to S/4 by 2027. Furthermore, about 13,000 ECC customers are on EHPs 0–5, with support only up to 2025 and calling for an even more urgent decision on the future of their ERP. Moreover, 90% of […]

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It’s a big project for us in terms of defining our strategy for data and AI, but also for automation.” In some of those areas, Battle is already concentrating spend on a small number of vendors, leaning toward Google Cloud Platform for data, and Appian for process automation, for example. It’s been a great success,” says Battle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2023

As such, organizations must evolve their digital strategies with market changes, such as the shift to remote work in 2020, the evolution to hyperautomation in 2022, and how generative AI will now require CIOs to overhaul their roadmaps. “You Agile PMOs take on these responsibilities and reduce the frictions that slow teams down.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

The second tactic is to leverage their established relationship strategy and credibility established with executives and the core project team to create uncertainty with transitioning to another vendor. Delivering these messages early and reinforced often will help to avoid “divide and conquer” strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2024

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Strategy, Microsoft, Predictive Analytics, Retail Industry, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

The CIO typically ranks the highest in an IT department, responsible for managing the organization’s IT strategy, resources, operations, and overall goals. Meanwhile, the CTO focuses on technology research and development efforts, often working closely with the CIO to develop a strong IT strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is a technology leader hired on a temporary or part-time basis, explains Peter Kirkwood, corporate strategy leader at management consulting and strategy advisory firm Zinnov. A fractional CIO develops and leads the execution of a company’s IT strategy,” he states. What does a fractional CIO do?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Danielle Phaneuf, partner, Cloud & Digital Strategy at PwC, says that inflation will probably be the leading threat to business for at least the next six months — an assertion 40% of CEOs agreed with in PwC’s 2023 CEO Survey. But it’s a long-game strategy: That cycle can take 10 years to play out, he says. Here’s how.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The global standard at lightning speed Based in Dublin, Ireland, Accenture specializes in digital, cloud, and security technology strategies, consulting, and operations, serving more than 40 industries in more than 120 countries.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2023

Prices are increasing, and negotiation is becoming more difficult,” agrees Melanie Alexander, senior director analyst on Gartner’s sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. Vendors are not granting the same concessions they have in the past.” This tends to be driven by a position-based negotiation strategy.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. For example, strategy building skills enable IT teams to unlock new business opportunities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2022

Here, experts say, are steps CIOs can take to streamline IT vendor onboarding. Automation is the most effective weapon that IT can leverage to onboard new IT technology vendors,” says David Linthicum, chief cloud strategy officer, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Vendor Management Leverage automation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

FinOps is part of the equation, but from a CIO perspective, you need a top-down view that starts with the strategy before you talk about the components of it,” McMasters says. For CIOs, that means building strong relationships with the C-suite and business unit managers so they can plan for and optimize cloud spend, says McMasters.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

NVIDIA just announced it plans to acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank Group for $40B. The combination aims to conquer the enormous compute market that has long been dominated by the x86 architecture (and thus, Intel and AMD). The x86 platform remains the leader in PCs and data centers, but the future growth prospects lie in […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Leadership, IT Skills, IT Strategy, Predictive Analytics, Supply Chain, Vendor Management It’ll help consolidate, optimize, and integrate industries, which will result in new industry performance benchmarks that raise the bar and create greater shareholder value.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 20, 2022

Back to the roaring 20’s It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Early in 2021 the media was filled with talk that we would see a return to the roaring 20’s, those golden years of economic prosperity before the first great Wall St. crash in 1929. And while socially, the episodic nature of Covid may […].

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 13, 2020

Cisco Systems stock fell over 11% today after it delivered its latest quarterly earnings yesterday. Cisco beat street estimates, but it fell based on a 9% YoY decrease in revenue and a weak outlook for coming quarters. Our research indicates a coming drought in infrastructure tech spending, so the next few quarters – likely to […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2024

Banking, Business IT Alignment, CIO, Digital Transformation, Financial Services Industry, IT Leadership, IT Management, IT Strategy, Transportation and Logistics Industry, Vendor Management Not to replace people, but assign more interesting tasks for them, which becomes more strategic for the company,” he says.

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Forrester IT

DECEMBER 18, 2022

2023 will be a challenging yet exciting year for Indian enterprises. On one hand they will face global economic headwinds yet on the other they will see a better domestic demand. They must face these challenges head-on and focus on re-innovating their IT core to be able compete globally. Indian companies must get out of […].

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Forrester IT

APRIL 10, 2023

Plan Now for Major Changes to Oracle Java Licensing Costs Oracle has again changed licensing rules for its widely used Java product. On Jan 23, 2023, the company introduced a new license metric, the SE Universal Subscription. It offers all the benefits of the legacy Java SE subscription, plus universal use rights (desktop, server, and […]

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Forrester IT

APRIL 22, 2021

Earth Day 2021: A small change makes a big difference Ahead of Earth Day 2021, I recently watched the excellent David Attenborough documentary “The Year Earth Changed”. The most encouraging message is that even a small change in our habits can make a big difference to our planet. Within the first weeks of lockdown, with […].

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

For global companies, reputation in the regions requires a great localization vendor, but it can be hard to find the right match. Kathleen Pierce of Forrester SiriusDecisions explains why past performance is no guarantee of future success, and how to identify the right partner for your needs.

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Forrester IT

MAY 17, 2022

These new solutions offer a vehicle for closer, more intentional relationships with the vendor's partners. This blog explores the top four benefits, as heard from the CRM vendors we spoke with. More and more enterprises are opting for industry CRM solutions over its horizontal counterpart.

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Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

How to Shift from a "Finger Pointing" to a Problem Solving Culture Businesses "fail" for a multitude of reasons including economic conditions, vendor management, performance or production, industry regulations, expansion costs and the list goes on. But more specifically, how to discover what is the heart of the problem?

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Forrester IT

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Buyer demand for greater value from insights and technology such as RPA, data science, machine learning, and advanced analytics are forcing both classical BPO and omnichannel BPO vendors to retool themselves into insights-driven BPO's.

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Forrester IT

MAY 28, 2019

Early last week, Ajit Pai, the Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced his approval of the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. This will result in a third mega-carrier in the US mobile wireless market, which is a good move for consumers like you and me. I am glad this deal will now […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Chandegara has over 20 years’ experience in managing IT and communication systems. He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. February 2022. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO.

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Future of CIO

JUNE 26, 2018

More specifically, it means having IT and business collaborate as equal partners so that strategies, portfolios, structures, and people, etc, work in harmony, such that initiatives, especially those focused on leveraging IT to increase revenues are successful. Follow us at: @Pearl_Zhu.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We habitually use metrics, even when they are not relevant. Our instincts are based on deeply engrained responses to situations and inherent investment biases (time & cost). This annoys many a modern business, as these metrics have nothing to do with the quality experienced by the customer or end-user in real life, giving them the […].

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