CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By pricing based on the underlying costs of compute, latency, and throughput, this model provides clarity on how charges are determined and allows for more precise budgeting, Leo John says. It all sounds good, but the challenge is that people get annual budgets and cannot tolerate variability, he says.

Budget 193

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CIO

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When your CEO or CFO asks about the budget needed for technical debt remediation , do you find yourself struggling to justify the investment? Our research reveals that top performers allocate around 15% of their IT budget to debt remediation. You’re not alone. Instead, show how leading companies manage it strategically.

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How To Budget Metrics Innovation 205

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2023

What does it all mean for startups entering 2024? It means they have to prove their worth more than ever. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Budget 315

Budget Enterprise 315

CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Budget constraints Barrier: IT modernization requires substantial investment, and budget constraints are a common hurdle. Solution: To address budget constraints, organizations should adopt a strategic approach to funding IT modernization.

Weak Development Team 183

Weak Development Team Compliance Budget Culture 183

CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

Cloud spending is going up and budgets are tightening, so theyre asking whats going on and how do we right this ship. Jeff Wysocki, CIO at mining firm Mosaic Company, acknowledges those budget-busting concerns, but he says CIOs may be able to work with their public cloud provider to get those costs under control.

Cloud 209

Cloud Technical Review Systems Review Budget 209

CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

Until now, many companies have cut costs in other areas, laid off staff, or raided the budgets of other departments to pay for AI projects. If you look at 23 and 2024 you had a lot of budget increases, you had a bunch of layoffs over the last couple of years, and not something thats sustainable.

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Company Survey Budget Sustainability 195

CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Reframe the conversation Thats when its time for you as CIO to have a tough conversation with the Powers That Be about the IT budget. To fix the challenges we face well need a bigger budget. What will make the conversation so tough? Script it and youll see: You: The IT organization I lead isnt as effective as it needs to be.

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Fractional CTO Weak Development Team CTO Budget 179

CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

Legal and Budget Complexities Create Bottlenecks The Challenge: Complex contract negotiations and rigid budget approvals can slow down procurement and lead to missed opportunities.

Technical Review 191

Technical Review Weak Development Team B2B Software Review 191

CIO

JANUARY 2, 2025

Taking the time to look at that budget for it and plan for it, from my perspective, is more important than just jumping right in and potentially losing millions of dollars, because its just not as effective as youd hoped it to be.

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Survey Generative AI Budget Organization 216

CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

The talent crisis and leadership divide While Middle Eastern organizations plan to boost cybersecurity budgets by 11% in 2025, Setareh stresses that technology alone isnt enough. Still, the region faces a paradox: 77% of Middle Eastern firms raised cyber budgets in 2024, yet 45% lack skilled teams to deploy solutions effectively.

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Budget Groups Generative AI Organization 160

CIO

DECEMBER 31, 2024

This is a missed opportunity to increase credibility for the project and IT team, build collaboration across internal IT and/or business-engaged processes, and bolster the teams ability to deliver on time, on budget, and in-scope initiatives. Start by focusing on a current project.

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Change Management Fractional CTO Strategy Culture 209

CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CIOs will need to work closely with finance teams to model different pricing scenarios and choose the options that best align with their organizations needs and budget constraints. Moreover, this shift in pricing models may require changes in how organizations budget for and manage their software expenses.

Weak Development Team 174

Weak Development Team Real Estate Budget Trends 174

AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

To manage their generative AI spend judiciously, organizations can use services like AWS Budgets to set tag-based budgets and alarms to monitor usage, and receive alerts for anomalies or predefined thresholds. This tagging structure categorizes costs and allows assessment of usage against budgets.

Generative AI 141

Generative AI AWS Artificial Inteligence Budget 141

CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For example, in the UK most of the budget is spent on curative treatments, interventions or medicines but a minimal amount of the budget is spent on prevention, mental health or any other thing that contributes to the well-being,” added. Sam, Chief Medical Strategy Officer at Numan (UK). “AI

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Generative AI Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence 156

CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Talent shortages — or, more precisely, the shortage of skilled workers willing to take jobs at the rate most enterprise CIOs are willing to pay given tightening IT budgets — will be another key factor. “At We can’t keep them up to date because the requirements keep changing.”

Technical Review 193

Technical Review Survey Budget Systems Review 193

CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

It said Zora expense management agents monitor expenses across payroll, facilities, sales and marketing, and employee time, helping its finance professionals identify expense outliers, compare expenses against industry and competitor trends, and drill down into specific budgets.

Analysis 161

Analysis Enterprise Budget Survey 161

CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Free the AI At the same time, most organizations will spend a small percentage of their IT budgets on gen AI software deployments, Lovelock says. “Generative AI is likely to confuse the capital investor as much as any technology ever has,” he adds.

Artificial Inteligence 200

Artificial Inteligence Data Center Generative AI Artificial Intelligence 200

CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

According to AI at Wartons report on navigating gen AIs early years, 72% of enterprises predict gen AI budget growth over the next 12 months but slower increases over the next two to five years. But if all gen AI does is improve productivity, CIOs may be challenged long term to justify budget increases and experiments with new capabilities.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Can I take 5% of my budget and deploy it against five to 10 different projects, across different teams, to build some expertise, to build some intuition and understand where it’s going to work?” Blank says.

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Strategy Fractional CTO Training Artificial Inteligence 199

CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Consider 76 percent of IT leaders believe that generative AI (GenAI) will significantly impact their organizations, with 76 percent increasing their budgets to pursue AI. IT leaders are placing faith in AI. But when it comes to cybersecurity, AI has become a double-edged sword.

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Artificial Inteligence Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Training 192

CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As budgets tighten, AI will soon face the same financial scrutiny as other IT investments. Cost Roadblocks will start to emerge Early AI adoption often comes with a “honeymoon phase” where costs are overlooked in favor of staying ahead of the curve.

Infrastructure 193

Infrastructure Marketing Data Artificial Inteligence 193

CIO

JANUARY 13, 2025

And theyll get this level of granularity without needing a thousand-person operation or a billion-dollar data analytics budget. In a world with thousands of categories, millions of products and hundreds of millions of consumers, when an individual walks into a virtual storefront, a company will be able to make remarkably specific predictions.

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Technology Trends Analytics Compliance 200

TechEmpower CTO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Were they finished on time and on budget? Budget and Deadlines: Determine if budgeting and deadlines are flexible. How does the percentage of their projects launched on-time and on-budget compare to upfront estimates? Has the company handled projects similar to yours? Make certain you explore these projects.

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Software Development Software Review Company Software 295

CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This cadence is especially important for re-evaluating budgeting, as we balance spending on new technology investments, like AI, against key infrastructure needs. A two- to three-year roadmap doesnt mean the work is done. We need to look at it quarterly or more to track and apply learnings. And third is monthly planning.

Technical Review 179

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Attendees were surprised they shared the same struggles: software projects running over budget, missing deadlines, or failing to meet expectations. Yet, we continue to see projects fail with similar char acteristics: budget overruns and missed deadlines while failin g to meet expe ctations. In 1972, Edsger W.

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Engineering Software Software Development Budget 130

CIO

MARCH 7, 2025

Our take: CIOs must focus on smart spending rather than indiscriminate budget slashing. See also: 10 IT budgeting mistakes to avoid.) A Davos presentation highlighted that 56% of organizations are prioritizing expenditure reduction over revenue growth in 2025 (Capgemini Research Institute).

Technical Review 137

Technical Review Sustainability Research Budget 137

CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Since its inception, the Digital Policeman project has documented over 6,000 bribery attempts, recorded 443,765 administrative violations, and solved 2,613 crimesall while saving Kazakhstans national budget $6 million. With over 10,000 smart badges and 21,000 tablets deployed, the project is reshaping the very fabric of public safety.

Video 142

Video Innovation Budget Mobile 142

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Even though the economy is signaling a bit of a bounce-back, 2024 might not be much better than 2023 when it comes to startups sharing a piece of the budget pie. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Budget 263

CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Ongoing layoffs in the tech industry and rising demand for AI skills are contributing to a growing mismatch in the IT talent market, which continues to show mixed signals as economic factors and the rise of AI impact budgets and the long-term outlook for IT skills.

Marketing 195

Marketing Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Artificial Intelligence 195

CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

Foundrys research shows that nearly two thirds of organizations (61%) are increasing AI budgets, while 87% are either researching, piloting or actually deploying AI. [3] A future-ready device strategy AI is set to transform employee productivity and drive growth for businesses. And the race to pioneer the technology is definitely on.

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Strategy Hardware Video Study 143