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The lazy CIO’s guide to better IT investment

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Youre under this pressure unless youve given up and relinquished responsibility for formulating the organizations technology vision to a chief digital officer, chief technology officer, or some other titled individual whose job is to make promises you as CIO are supposed to keep. Dont do that.

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How will AI agents be priced? CIOs need to pay attention

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Outcome- and cost-based pricing, with variations for specific use cases, are likely to catch on, says Rogers Jeffrey Leo John, co-founder and CTO of DataChat, a no-code, gen AI platform for instant analytics. It all sounds good, but the challenge is that people get annual budgets and cannot tolerate variability, he says.

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What’s holding back CIO’s AI strategies? Their own AI learning curve for one

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A lack of AI expertise is a problem, however, when other company leaders often turn to CIOs and other IT leaders as the “go-to people” for solving AI problems, says Pavlo Tkhir, CTO at Euristiq, a digital transformation company. “A The technology is too novel and evolving,” he says. “As Blank says.

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What is a CTO? The exec who sets tech strategy

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What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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Success Story: Swiss Insurtech Company Hires a Remote CTO from Ukraine

While some businesses choose the strategy of improving their HR brand, extending the number of employees' perks and increasing the hiring budgets, other companies decide not to fight for the resources in the red ocean and open for themselves the alternative of hiring dedicated resources overseas.

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TBM helps CIOs translate tech spending to business outcomes

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More than 90% of IT leaders, in fact, expected their 2025 budgets to increase when surveyed in 2024. Cost transparency and accurate budget forecasting are two major parts of the TBM framework, Guarini says. The US Office of Management and Budget has also pushed agencies to use TBM practices since 2017.

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Moderate IT budget increases have CIOs shaping 2025 strategies to suit

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Despite those complications, a huge majority of IT leaders expect their organizations’ IT budgets to increase — at least moderately — in the next fiscal year, with IT talent and software spending leading the way. Talent, software spending lead the way According to Forrester’s guide, personnel accounts for nearly 35% of IT budgets.

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