CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

CIOs now list innovation as the most important trait they need to bring to their role, according to a 2024 survey by professional services firm Deloitte — ahead of delivering top-line value and serving as change agents, two endeavors that require innovation to facilitate.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

“The focus shouldn’t be on identifying today’s consensus on AI implementation strategies, but rather on making strategic organizational investments in understanding where AI can deliver maximum value for your business while maintaining security and good guardrails and remaining innovative,” he says. Blank says.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

CIOs are under pressure to accommodate the exponential rise in inferencing workloads within their budgets, fueled by the adoption of LLMs for running generative AI -driven applications.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

But when you increase the technology budget in your expense line, and you don’t take down the people line, then you just have a higher overall cost line. That means your business model needs to either support reducing the number of humans you have, or you need a balance sheet that can support giving those humans something else to do.

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

Procurement Takes Too Long, Slowing Innovation The Challenge: Traditional IT procurement cycles average three to six months, delaying critical projects and threatening your organizations competitive edge. Because IT procurement shouldnt slow innovation it should accelerate it. How AI Overcomes 10 Common Procurement Challenges 1.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

Instead, we need to focus on developing a culture of innovation around AI that shapes the technology with society and business front and center. Innovation is what will make companies successful in an AI-driven future. Instead, it needs to be coupled with innovation. This can be your people’s north star as they work.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2025

And theyll get this level of granularity without needing a thousand-person operation or a billion-dollar data analytics budget. Prediction #3: Superior guardrails and governance will spur innovation. With AI bringing a new level of automation to the developer toolkit, theyll be freed up to do what they were hired to do: innovate.

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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. These areas of spending are not just responses to current trends but are strategic investments that will foster long-term innovation, resilience, and competitive advantage.”

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2025

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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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. Related: 6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget Budgeting, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

AI is no longer just a tool for innovation, its a weapon, says Setareh. 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.

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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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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CDO’s mandate extends beyond mere technology implementation; it encompasses the development of comprehensive digital strategies and the cultivation of a culture that embraces continuous innovation. This includes fostering a culture that values innovation and agility.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Against this backdrop, Kazakhstans Digital Policeman initiative has emerged as a shining example of technological innovation in policing. Discover how Kazakhstan is charting the future of law enforcement, balancing technological innovation with community trust. These advancements extend beyond technology. Unlock the future of policing.

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CIO

MAY 19, 2025

The move is a major enterprise transformation with many moving parts, as well as significant implications for data, customizations, and budgets, not to mention cloud adoption where appropriate. For this reason, the business case must also weigh in the cost of remaining on legacy platforms, including a lack of innovation from SAP on ECC.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Upskilling programs and focusing on the employee experience are also crucial for businesses looking to hold onto talent and drive innovative transformations, and recruitment for tech talent is much more effective when IT leaders are actively involved in the process. You have to be innovative,” adds Balbo.

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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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CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Years into digital transformation, and decades into the IT function itself, many CIOs still fall short when it comes to innovation. Tech debt, budget constraints, and overloaded staff schedules are among the top reasons IT leaders cite for scuttled innovation attempts. Otherwise, they won’t support and fund even promising work.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

At its core, AI represents the opportunity to augment people and their work, and to not only elevate productivity, but also innovate in capabilities and performance. Business and operational model innovation is necessary to adapt to today’s opportunities while also creating a culture of adaptation and innovation for the coming waves.

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

According to Foundry’s State of the CIO 2024 study, technology leaders will be focused on driving digital innovation, redesigning processes, and modernising infrastructure and apps in the next three years in order to stay ahead. Tackling these requires innovation, built from a base of experience and knowledge.

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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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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Andy Ellis of YL Ventures Across-the-board, it seemed like the golden heyday where chief information security officers got more money every time they turned around had come to an end, with a third of CISOs reporting their budgets had dropped, and another fifth having frozen budgets, meaning only committed money would be spent.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

growth in ICT budgets specific to Italy, mostly in line with recent trends. But the difference lies in its accompaniment to innovation. Until now, digitalization has focused on streamlining and automating processes, but AI now requires a strong IT-business synergy and a structured training intervention to accompany innovation.

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CIO

MARCH 3, 2025

But I remind tech leaders that one of the biggest line items in any organization is the IT budget. Its crossing product, engineering, and into the business, says Erik Brown, an AI and innovation leader in the technology and experience practice at digital services firm West Monroe. But the role is becoming more fluid.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Forrester said most technology executives expect their IT budgets to increase in 2025. This retreat risks stifling long-term growth and innovation as leaders realize that the ROI from AI will unfold over a more extended period of time than initially anticipated.” Others won’t — and will come up against the limits of quick fixes.”

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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. Boost your cybersecurity with AI Don’t let potential security risks slow down your pace of innovation. IT leaders are placing faith in AI.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 9, 2025

Yet it’s manufacturing companies that turn these dreams into a reality innovating production lines and processes to fulfill tasks in the most cost-effective way possible. Lets examine how manufacturing startups and venture capitalists can navigate these changes and take innovation into their own hands. The latest round of U.S.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Transformational CIOs recognize the importance of IT culture in delivering innovation, accelerating business impacts, and reducing operational and security risks. When CIOs don’t trust their teams to make decisions or constantly hover over every detail, it stifles creativity and innovation.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As budgets tighten, AI will soon face the same financial scrutiny as other IT investments. As businesses embrace AI, they stand poised for unprecedented innovation and transformation. However, 90% of respondents already recognize that AI applications will drive up daily IT and cloud expenses.

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CIO

JULY 2, 2024

CIOs face the daunting challenge of driving innovation while managing costs and ensuring practical implementation in a rapidly advancing digital landscape. This article presents essential strategies for CIOs to strike the optimal balance among innovation, value, cost, and practicality in tech investments.

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CIO

AUGUST 29, 2024

During the show, Cheriyan reflected on his decades-long career and the principles and philosophies he’s applied to successfully innovate, collaborate, and lead people and transformations. Scott and I created this innovation lab together to change the way in which we built systems and integrated with systems, using agile at scale.

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2025

Maintaining legacy systems can consume a substantial share of IT budgets up to 70% according to some analyses diverting resources that could otherwise be invested in innovation and digital transformation. The financial and security implications are significant. In my view, the issue goes beyond merely being a legacy system.

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CIO

MAY 5, 2025

The proactive leaders were working with are insulating their teams from hype by running controlled pilot environments with guardrails and budget thresholds, and are continuously learning as they iterate.

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

In an era when artificial intelligence (AI) and other resource-intensive technologies demand unprecedented computing power, data centers are starting to buckle, and CIOs are feeling the budget pressure. To address these issues, IT organizations are increasingly migrating workloads to the cloud to gain operational efficiency and agility.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2025

For CIOs, the message was clear: Efficiency, future-ready technology, and innovative workforce strategies are essential. Our take: CIOs must focus on smart spending rather than indiscriminate budget slashing. See also: 10 IT budgeting mistakes to avoid.) CIOs must balance cost cutting with strategic investments.

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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.

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