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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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CIOs eager to scale AI despite difficulty demonstrating ROI, survey finds

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However, barriers such as adoption speed and security concerns hinder rapid AI integration, according to a new survey. Of the 750 CIOs around the world surveyed by Lenovo, 81% said they are already leveraging third-party AI Tools or deploying a mix of third-party and proprietary AI. Artificial Intelligence

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Growth marketing experts survey: How would you spend a $75,000 budget in summer 2022?

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In November, we reached out to marketers to learn how they would spend a $25,000 budget in Q1 2022. We followed up with a few marketers from our previous survey and reached out some more to see how they would spend a $75,000 budget in summer 2022. Imagine you have a $75,000 budget going into summer 2022. A B2B startup?

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Prioritizing cloud security: Allocating the majority of CIOs’ cyber budgets

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CIO’s cybersecurity budget allocations are too spread out across a myriad of single solutions. Cyber budgets get stretched too thinly across single solutions when they should match the organization’s IT and software spending priorities. the majority of its cybersecurity budget should go to protecting these investments.

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Survey: Marketers embrace AI at expense of metaverse investments

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In a testament to its growing importance, 80% of marketers have experimented with or deployed the burgeoning technology, in some cases redirecting budgets from last year’s forays into the metaverse. In fact, 9 in 10 marketers surveyed remain eager to learn about and deploy new technologies.

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IT leaders adjust budget priorities as economic outlook shifts

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Budget planning during uncertain economic times is never CIOs’ favorite activity. For the most part, budgets are holding steady or growing in the single digits, with continued investments in security, analytics, and the cloud, among other areas. But the next eighteen months aren’t shaping up to be as challenging as some may fear.

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Growth marketing experts survey: How would you spend a $25,000 budget in Q1 2022?

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A new year is quickly approaching, which brings new resolutions — and new budgets. Provide a recommendation in this quick survey and we’ll share the results with everybody. If we were advising one of our early-stage startups how best to deploy their $25,000 marketing budget for Q1 2022, here’s what we’d suggest.

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