CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Here, we explore the key factors impeding IT modernization and provide recommendations to overcome them (with real-world illustrations of strategies). For instance, Capital One successfully transitioned from mainframe systems to a cloud-first strategy by gradually migrating critical applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This is true whether it’s an outdated system that’s no longer vendor-supported or infrastructure that doesn’t align with a cloud-first strategy, says Carrie Rasmussen, CIO at human resources software and services firm Dayforce. A first step, Rasmussen says, is ensuring that existing tools are delivering maximum value.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Business leaders can’t wait until next year for another budget to get approved.” “New business opportunities arise at any time, and people have to be able to quickly purchase tools to get the job done,” he says.

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CIO

MAY 20, 2024

Sfida numero due: il budget In altri casi, la trasformazione digitale non incontra resistenze, perché c’è la spinta dal basso: è l’utente che chiede di modificare un processo e introdurre innovazione. Quattro: attrarre le competenze Quando, però, la sicurezza è cruciale per il core business, le imprese mettono in campo budget adeguati.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Because Windows 11 Pro has new hardware requirements, your upgrade strategy must both address hardware and software aspects, not to mention security, deployment plans, training, and more. Also, include additional licensing costs in your budget planning to ensure you have adequate resources to support the upgrade.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Quality management: Identify quality requirements. Human resource management: Plan and identify human resource needs. Communications management: Plan stakeholder communications. Procurement management: Identify and plan required procurements.

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CIO

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. Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

From there, you’ll have better insight into whether the product you’ve built fits into the overarching strategy the CIO has put into place. Most CIOs already suffer from tool fatigue, managing a budget that includes hundreds of SaaS applications. Make sure you have a clearly articulated plan for deployment and change management.

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CIO

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. More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives. At his company, anyway.

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CIO

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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Because of this, IT leaders must take a proactive approach to change management , communicating the benefits of digital transformation and providing support and training to employees. Digital Transformation, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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CIO

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Top CIOs rebrand IT as part of a transformational vision that inspires the IT team, employees, stakeholders, and executives to experiment and drive change. These CIOs also avoid digital transformation’s change management mistakes by guiding IT teams to drive end-user adoption, capture feedback, and iteratively improve solutions.

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

According to Foundry’s 2023 State of the CIO Research, technology budget growth is seeing pre-pandemic levels. 91% of CIOs expect their tech budget to either increase or stay the same in 2023. It is thus, very essential for a CIO to rebalance these priorities while recalibrating their business strategies.

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CIO

JULY 5, 2024

“First, you end up allocating too much budget to business-as-usual infrastructure rather than investing in innovations that can drive real business growth.

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CIO

JANUARY 23, 2024

For example, McKinsey suggests five metrics for digital CEOs , including the financial return on digital investments, the percentage of leaders’ incentives linked to digital, and the percentage of the annual tech budget spent on bold digital initiatives.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

Early on, I observed that business strategy was rarely driving digital transformation, resulting in very little transformation occurring. Those that prioritize automation and cost-cutting strategies are limited to linear growth, at best. Instead, a vast majority of companies were investing in digitization.

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2024

CIOs have to accept that their current budget does not allow them to do the transformative work in data thats necessary, he says. Thats driving up spending on AI , but its not bringing in the finances needed to put the data house in order, says Ted Schadler, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 22, 2015

Delivering on strategic initiatives on time, every time, is the hallmark of organizations that are best in the world at executing strategy, and they’re rewarded with a premium put on the value of their company. Is a major change and departure from the current way of doing things. Organizational Change Management.

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CIO

MARCH 24, 2023

The Data Management Association (DAMA) International defines it as the “planning, oversight, and control over management of data and the use of data and data-related sources.” Data governance framework Data governance may best be thought of as a function that supports an organization’s overarching data management strategy.

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Capgemini

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Reflections from Climate Week 2024: Why workplace services deserve a bigger slice of sustainability budgets Alan Connolly 10 Oct 2024 Facebook Twitter Linkedin As sustainability budgets grow, many companies are making significant investments in decarbonization, renewable energy, and broader environmental initiatives.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Andy Thurai, VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research adds that AI is also used to help with budgeting, sourcing, and writing vision statements to present to the board. A focus on strategy Johar and Mandell aren’t the only IT leaders looking forward to their jobs becoming more dynamic as AI continues to evolve.

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2023

Project managers play the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing out projects. They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project. For more, see our 12 difficult project manager interview questions to prep for.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2013

That is a variation on a comment I heard recently from an executive who was speaking about the responsibilities that senior managers have to lead their organizations through change. Managers are expected to handle the workload; leaders are expected to determine what comes next. That’s what we call leadership.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But with the right technologies, strategies, processes, and partnerships in place, you can mitigate the mayhem, and better yet, avoid it all together. As I mentioned earlier, protecting your systems must involve both offensive and defensive strategies. It’s so important to prioritize innovation while protecting your environment.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

CIOs should be drivers of change — which can create stress — while taking proactive and ongoing steps to reduce stress in their organization and across the company. Be paranoid about third-party data breaches and security incidents,” warns Brad Hibbert, COO and chief strategy officer at Prevalent. “To

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CIO

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Presently, enterprises are continuing with cost-optimization efforts and no big budgets for generative AI deployments have come to the fore, Slaga said, adding that proof-of-concepts (PoCs) were being actioned by the company along with projects that check the data readiness of enterprises to deploy generative AI at scale.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

And they see the big picture across the enterprise and how AI fits into its overall modernization and transformation strategies. It’s not a surprise that two out of every three IT organizations are planning to allocate more than five percent of their budgets to AI initiatives.

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CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2022

It seeks to improve the way data are managed and products are created, and to coordinate these improvements with the goals of the business. According to Gartner, DataOps also aims “to deliver value faster by creating predictable delivery and change management of data, data models, and related artifacts.” It’s a fluid situation.”

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Two years on since the start of the pandemic, stress levels of tech and security executives are still elevated as global skills shortages, budget limitations and an ever faster and expanding security threat landscape test resilience. “In Change Management, Identity Management Solutions Kerissa Varma.

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Apps Associates

JUNE 14, 2022

A Change Management Strategy should be a part of every digital transformation. In this multi-part series, we dive deep into the Apps Methodology for Change Management and this service should be a part of any digital transformation initiative. To start, let’s first level set on what Change Management is.

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CIO

JUNE 29, 2022

Implementing RPA can be challenging, given both the potential complexity of legacy business processes and the level of change management that can be required for RPA to succeed. Set and manage expectations. Poor design, change management can wreak havoc. Not every enterprise, however, has the budget for this.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They deliver Although it’s true that leading , which is about visioning, is not synonymous with managing , aka accomplishing tasks , true IT leaders are indeed “great at the business of IT,” says Eric Bloom, executive director of the IT Management and Leadership Institute and part of the Society for Information Management (SIM) Leadership Institute.

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2024

The uses of storytelling Storytelling can be used to persuade senior executives to release budget, plot a change in strategy, or share good and bad news. The consulting giant said it was buying the 29-person, London-based company to help clients articulate and activate their vision and change strategies.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

You don’t have to be in or near the field of change management long before you hear a daunting statistic: 70% of change initiatives fail. It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. Is change management challenging?

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CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2023

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. Role growth: 13% of organizations have added cloud product manager roles as part of their cloud investments.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Today’s CIOs inherit highly customized ERPs and struggle to lead change management efforts, especially with systems that [are the] backbone of all the enterprise’s operations,” wrote Isaac Sacolick, founder and president of StarCIO, a digital transformation consultancy, in a recent blog post.

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