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. That helps me plan.”

Cloud 187

Cloud Technical Review CTO Coach Fractional CTO 187

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. Double down on vendor management. IT Skills, IT Strategy, Outsourcing

Technical Review 187

Technical Review Technical Advisors Development Team Review Artificial Inteligence 187

CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is a technology leader hired on a temporary or part-time basis, explains Peter Kirkwood, corporate strategy leader at management consulting and strategy advisory firm Zinnov. A fractional CIO develops and leads the execution of a company’s IT strategy,” he states. What services do fractional CIOs provide?

Technical Advisors 182

Technical Advisors How To Leadership Enterprise 182

CIO

MARCH 9, 2023

Sourcing and Partnerships – revisiting and improving the sourcing strategy is critical for minimising the total cost of ownership while maximising the value of the investment. One of the key steps in achieving all of the above will be vendor consolidation, and there will be a strong trend towards this in the year ahead.

Innovation 147

Innovation Agile Budget Vendor Management 147

CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

Mike Rawson, CIO of citizenM, is also emphasizing green IT as part of the global hotel chain’s IT strategy. By integrating sustainability into our core business strategy, we’re not only reducing our environmental impact but also creating long-term value for our stakeholders.”

Sustainability 192

Sustainability Hotels Data Center Energy 192

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 111

Generative AI AWS Enterprise Artificial Inteligence 111

CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While there is little doubt that companies have been cutting back on expenses generally in response to economic uncertainty, startups in particular have been feeling the pain of contracting budgets and reluctant investors.

Technical Review 192

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Sustainability Survey 192

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.

Security 197

Security Technical Review Project Management Agile 197

Cloudera

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Finding opportunities for monetary savings offers the benefit of reducing costs, but more importantly, it enables a reallocation of budgets towards innovation projects. . Strategies to maximize impact. Understand your strategy — what features are meant to be turned off or available elsewhere to retire an application.

Technical Review 90

Technical Review Machine Learning Artificial Inteligence Compliance 90

Palo Alto Networks

JANUARY 7, 2020

Despite a wide range of cybersecurity strategies and investment levels, we’ve found that most enterprise security programs have lots of room for improvement to better prevent, identify, investigate and mitigate threats with speed and confidence. Governance: How are we going to manage what we are doing?

Technical Review 96

Technical Review Systems Review Vendor Management Knowledge Base 96

Datavail

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

With databases representing a substantial portion of the IT budget, getting the most from investments in this area is critical. With the right optimization strategies, you can maximize PostgreSQL’s value while controlling costs. Effective vendor management and support models drive down services spending.

Vendor Management 55

Vendor Management Open Source Backup Scalability 55

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.

Organization 59

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Saviynt

APRIL 2, 2019

The rigorous FedRAMP authorization process provides assurance that the vendor offers a solution that supports systems, incorporates innovative technology, and secures their customers’ information. Why Is Vendor Management Important to Cybersecurity?

Security 51

Security Systems Review Technical Review Vendor Management 51

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2023

Their replacements weren't quite as capable: what they possessed in knowledge of the mechanical process of product management they lacked in fundamentals of Agile requirements definition. In practice, product teams were "long lived" in structure only, not in institutional memory and capability that matter most.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Agile Delivery Management Recruiting 52

Tenable

JANUARY 31, 2024

They’re very involved in IT and security strategy. More about the respondents Survey respondents represent cloud decision-makers working in IT (65%) and cybersecurity (35%). They’re more likely to be VPs or directors rather than C-level executives. Which of the following best describes your current position/department?

Security 63

Security Cloud Fractional CTO Technical Review 63

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. Before you even start your SAP HANA migration, it’s a good idea to map out your broader technological strategy, and the role your HANA migration plays in it. Choosing the Goal.

Linux 8

Linux Budget Case Study Performance 8

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. More and more, we're seeing corporate eCommerce chiefs who are "digital asset investors", responsible for the digital strategy and assets of a business.

eCommerce 45

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. FMS streamlines the related administrative processes. Security and safety features.

Software Review 101

Software Review Software Innovation Systems Review 101

Kaseya

JUNE 29, 2021

Having an internal IT team means working with a bunch of IT vendors. However, vendor management can become an expensive and cumbersome task. Service providers manage these tasks for their clients, freeing up plenty of time and resources for those clients to manage their businesses.

Security 52

Security Disaster Recovery Technical Review Systems Review 52

CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets.

Strategy 217

Strategy Cloud Weak Development Team Technical Review 217

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. In this unpredictable economy, traditional approaches to strategy are a luxury most companies cannot afford. SD : What is ‘capabilities-driven strategy?’. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 20

Resources Healthcare Strategy Exercises 20

CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

Technical Review 204

Technical Review Software Review Apparel Systems Review 204

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

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Leveraging sustainable architecture principles and practices, organizations can link enterprise business and technology strategies with ESG principles that have the potential to unlock new opportunities for innovation, efficiency and competitive advantage while aligning to a strong mission statement regarding improving societal impacts on the earth.

Architecture 183

Architecture Enterprise Technical Review Sustainability 183

CIO

JANUARY 16, 2025

Dan Roberts: What can you tell us about your mission for Digital Technology Solutions, and the strategy thats laying the foundation for transformation at Kimberly-Clark? Part of our DTS strategy has involved realignment, with about 200 members of my central team re-focusing to be more aligned with the business functions.

Innovation 167

Innovation Off-The-Shelf Leadership Digital Marketing 167

CIO

MARCH 12, 2025

They review transparency and budgeting, and engage with the finance organization monthly to review trends. The Enterprise FinOps staff handles contract negotiations, some compute purchases, and purchase agreements, while the business units focus on consumption management and optimization. CarMaxs strategy has also evolved.

Cloud 180

Cloud Weak Development Team Technical Review Data Center 180