CIO

MAY 15, 2024

Developer teams are learning that the pennies add up, sometimes faster than expected, and it’s time for some discipline. Cloud cost management tools are an answer. Budgeting, Cloud Management, Enterprise Buyer’s Guides, IT Management, Vendor Management

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Enterprise Cloud Vendor Management Budget 88

CIO

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. There are other risks, too.

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Strategy Cloud Weak Development Team Technical Review 217

CIO

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. Many of the new skills are in rare supply, as are team leaders experienced in this new development paradigm.”

Technical Review 187

Technical Review Technical Advisors Development Team Review Artificial Inteligence 187

CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. Then there’s housekeeping.

Cloud 187

Cloud Technical Review CTO Coach Fractional CTO 187

AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It contains services used to onboard, manage, and operate the environment, for example, to onboard and off-board tenants, users, and models, assign quotas to different tenants, and authentication and authorization microservices. It also contains observability components for cost tracking, budgeting, auditing, logging, etc.

Generative AI 103

Generative AI AWS Enterprise Artificial Inteligence 103

CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO’s responsibilities typically include IT team management, budget development and supervision, specifying technology investments, and providing guidance on IT systems and governance, he says. A fractional CIO develops and leads the execution of a company’s IT strategy,” he states.

Technical Advisors 182

Technical Advisors How To Leadership Enterprise 182

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Below is a list of security initiatives that a security leader would either manage or have parallel impact upon within a business: Data security. Vendor management. Budgeting & forecasting. Identity & Access Management (IAM). Vulnerability Management (VM). Network systems security. Data storage.

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Security Leadership Disaster Recovery Budget 100

CIO

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. Digital Transformation, Enterprise Applications, IT Strategy, Software Development That’s the black swan for gen AI,” Gupta says.

Strategy 210

Strategy Artificial Inteligence Generative AI Agile 210

CIO

JULY 25, 2024

The certification covers high-level topics such as organizational structure, budgeting, managing risk, monitoring and assigning deliverables, communicating with remote teams and executives, and managing complex large-scope projects. It covers Scrum, Kanban, Lean, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD).

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Security Technical Review Project Management Agile 197

Xebia

AUGUST 3, 2021

No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams. Gone are the days of creating large project plans and business cases.

Architecture 130

Architecture Organization Technical Review Software Review 130

Xebia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. Architects should be dynamic, understanding the purpose of management with the organization and the engineering challenges of the development teams. Gone are the days of creating large project plans and business cases.

Architecture 130

Architecture Organization Technical Review Software Review 130

Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The vendor management team would receive this feedback so they can escalate or find a new vendor for that service. Developers will start using these in the wrong places to avoid being woken up and it won’t be clear until an incident—aaaaand then we’re back where we started. It could also be an external API.

Software Review 105

Software Review Weak Development Team Systems Review Budget 105

Apiumhub

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Cost Optimization: By providing insights into software usage and license compliance, software asset management tools enable organizations to optimize their software spending. This may involve reallocating licenses, negotiating better licensing agreements, or identifying opportunities to consolidate software vendors.

Tools 90

Tools Software Compliance AWS 90

GreenBar

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He was losing sleep about his company’s challenges arising from: Poor vendor management A hodgepodge of tech that wouldn’t scale Inability to keep up with new leads Stagnant R&D Lack of focus A week later I found myself in a similar conversation, this time with a VP of Engineering looking for an outside perspective.

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Organization Technical Review Part-Time VPE Weak Development Team 59

Infinidat

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Infinidat understands the problem and is here to help transform IT Operations’ view of Purchasing from being a speed bump in the pathway to their getting the storage they need to a partner that helps them get maximum value from their storage budget. Monetizing the Cost of Operations and Purchasing Not Working Together.

Storage 69

Storage Systems Review Infrastructure Software Review 69

Honeycomb

JUNE 16, 2023

The principles and techniques that make observability necessary for modern software development apply to LLMs in production. Whether we went the third-party route or built our own thing, that’s more vendor management and/or infrastructure overhead. turbo’s limit. Could be better, could be worse. Nothing to worry about right now.

Artificial Inteligence 105

Artificial Inteligence Weak Development Team Budget Engineering 105

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2023

The assumption was, they had solved their quality problems with Agile development practices, quality was an internal concern of the team, and primarily the responsibility of developers. The hard-learned software delivery management practices simply evaporated. In the product regime, these all but disappeared.

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Weak Development Team Agile Delivery Management Recruiting 52

Altexsoft

OCTOBER 11, 2019

SCM is tightly interwoven with operations management (OM) , that focuses on coordinating and optimizing the internal processes, whether it be designing and manufacturing goods or developing services. For example, both are involved in: Forecasting prices , overseeing budgeting, planning and auditing. Collaborative forecasting.

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Software Review Software Transportation Weak Development Team 16

Infinidat

OCTOBER 4, 2020

They touch backup/recovery, D/R schemes, business continuity plans, policies procedures, and asset/vendor management. Data migrations are inherently complex, and when poorly done, affect IT’s ability to meet SLAs. It also allows us to build relationships with prospective new customers and insights into their workloads.

Storage 52

Storage Weak Development Team Infrastructure Backup 52

Infinidat

OCTOBER 1, 2020

They touch backup/recovery, D/R schemes, business continuity plans, policies procedures, and asset/vendor management. Data migrations are inherently complex, and when poorly done, affect IT’s ability to meet SLAs. It also allows us to build relationships with prospective new customers and insights into their workloads.

Storage 52

Storage Weak Development Team Infrastructure Backup 52

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Most IT dollars are spent on business as usual: maintenance and upgrades represent 70% or more of the annual IT budget. The proto-CIO is a strong technologist with vendor management and negotiating skills, with a steady-as-she-goes disposition. IT, the argument goes, is less a source of value and more a cost of doing business.

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eCommerce Retail Airlines Leadership 45

Altexsoft

MARCH 29, 2019

By helping manage expenses (cost registration, fixed costs scheduling, cost/km and cost/hour ratios calculation, etc.), Apart from that, FMS conducts a comprehensive cost analysis providing a clear picture of what your budget is spent on. More apps with driver scorecards are expected to be developed.

Software Review 101

Software Review Software Innovation Systems Review 101

Protera

OCTOBER 15, 2019

For example, if you’re repainting a building and your goal is to get it done as quickly as possible within budget, the process reflects that. Is the goal to get your development environment on HANA to limit perceived risks and short-term disruption, or get everything migrated to maximize performance benefits?

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Linux Budget Case Study Performance 8

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2018

Aside from the fact that this serves the interests of a multitude of non-tech corporate functions such as human resources, vendor management and finance, it also provides a great deal of comfort to the individual. Vendor contracts for supply of specialist labor have to be replaced with contracts tied to business outcomes.

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Organization Leadership Innovation Enterprise 40

Tenable

JANUARY 31, 2024

Develop a plan to standardize cloud security across various business units, providing a single point of reference that can be used by teams in security, IT, DevOps and DevSecOps. More about the respondents Survey respondents represent cloud decision-makers working in IT (65%) and cybersecurity (35%).

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Security Cloud Fractional CTO Technical Review 62

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago? SD : Why now? What do most companies do instead?

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Resources Healthcare Strategy Exercises 20

CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Product management is crucial for businesses looking to drive innovation and leverage technology as a differentiator, shared Roman Dumiak, executive-in-residence at the DePaul University Innovation Development Lab, at a recent Coffee With Digital Trailblazers event I hosted on the topic.

Technical Review 189

Technical Review Project Management Agile Program Management 189

CIO

MARCH 12, 2025

Were 80 to 85% in the cloud and for us, the job is proactively tracking this spend, then educating developers and data teams on how to use cloud capabilities in a cost-effective manner, he says. But his organization developed its own model, says Mohammad. Plus, many enterprises were doing FinOps well before the term was coined.

Cloud 180

Cloud Weak Development Team Technical Review Data Center 180

CIO

APRIL 4, 2025

Develop a relationship management program A relationship management program is a key part of working with IT suppliers to help keep your interests fully aligned. Develop a process to resolve issues All too often, formal partnerships end because of issues or events that werent resolved before they escalated.

Systems Review 154

Systems Review Technical Review Resources Programming 154

CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Tracks cost savings from architecture initiatives, such as through optimization of IT infrastructure, cloud usage, or vendor management. IT organizations have limited budgets to cover their existing business demands while ensuring operation support and up time. Cost and resource optimization Cost efficiency.

Architecture 183

Architecture Enterprise Technical Review Sustainability 183

CIO

JANUARY 16, 2025

A lot of companies that did outsourcing have found themselves in a situation where they have a lot of vendor managers versus technologists. So, building that foundation and developing capabilities at scale is important. So we took our process knowledge, captured all that data, and developed an AI tool called Violet.

Innovation 167

Innovation Off-The-Shelf Leadership Digital Marketing 167

CIO

APRIL 3, 2025

This refers to issues of knowledge management in the enterprise, so when these people leave the company, a dangerous skills gap is created and many IT products remain hidden. They can also be external consultants from the software house. Its not always possible to proportionately hire people as digital projects increase.

How To 158

How To Strategy Culture Technology 158

CIO

MARCH 5, 2025

The smaller players are more likely to have the innovative solutions that allow an organization to get ahead of the competition, so Gupta allocates 10 to 20% of his IT budget for the more nimble suppliers. Gupta points out that some vendors make a lot of claims, but then say they need Lexmarks data. But its a data point to consider.

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Recruiting Generative AI Technology Testing 149