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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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Solving the tech debt problem while staying competitive and secure

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Interestingly, despite the significance of technical debt as a cost concern and an inhibitor to improving security and implementing innovation (like AI), it ranks much lower on the list of immediate priorities for many organizations (20%). For CIOs, balancing technical debt with other strategic priorities is a constant challenge.

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Barriers and benefits: How CIOs are navigating the AI whirlwind

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Less than half of CIOs say they possess the required technical skills, only 4 in 10 believe they have the required security infrastructure, and just one-third think their organizations possess the right computing infrastructure. Finally, CIOs are concerned about how their organizations will meet the challenge of responsible AI use.

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7 ways to create a more IT-savvy C-suite

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Business is business and IT is IT and never the twain shall meet. We lack a water cooler in this remote world, but setting up biweekly meetings with my peers helps me understand their priorities and gives me an opportunity to communicate key knowledge,” Busse says. Advise and collaborate. What are their department’s goals?

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Can the CIO role prevail over AI?

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“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. For the rest, gen AI will greatly augment the power and value of the role of the CIO, he says.

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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller

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I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. In that one meeting, I got the green light to invest and I always tried to explain technology in words and narratives that the non-techie board could absorb,” he said. “I

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12 ways to maximize your cloud investments

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During a migration frenzy, companies can take shortcuts that result in technical debt that dilutes the impact cloud transformation can have. Think of cloud as a modernization journey and not just a migration,” Ranjan advises. Challenge your IT department to pull all levers for efficient cloud usage,” advises Sealock.