CIO

MAY 14, 2024

It’s because any Martian business will enjoy an insurmountable advantage: With a 687 earth-days long year, Martian enterprises will go through about half the number of budgeting cycles their terrestrial competitors do. What,” I asked him, “is the ROI for budgeting?” My friend would state, in response, “Your budget is your plan!

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Among other accolades, he was named Consumer Goods Technology’s 2013 CIO of the Year and was the 2021 recipient of the Bay Area CIO of the Year ORBIE award for Leadership. Humility, Empathy, Adaptability, Resiliency, and Transparency) have become fundamental to his leadership style. IT Leadership Can you unpack those a bit? .

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DevOps.com

JUNE 23, 2020

Technology budgets have shifted dramatically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent study from online CIO networking and information hub, Pulse. The pandemic, and its resulting shutdown, will likely continue to have a substantial impact on technology budgets for some time.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

Reframing technical debt There is no magic potion that can eliminate all technical debt, but technical debt can be attacked via budgeting if technical debt is not just perceived as upgrading IT infrastructure. To address this, the school district must raise funds and budget for replacing or modernizing the building.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Keep the CIO integral to budgets According to Ardolino, it’s important to present the CEO with at least three different vendor proposals and their investment requirements, always providing comparisons and alternatives. Instead of simply controlling the company’s tech needs and related budget, the focus should be on security and innovation.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 23, 2020

with at least 500 employees and an annual IT budget in excess of $5 million finds a surprising amount of resiliency at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The post Despite Downturn, Enterprise IT Budgets Remain Intact appeared first on DevOps.com. A survey of 137 IT operations leaders at companies in the U.S

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Despite national news about increased costs, economic uncertainty, and more reports of technology firm layoffs, respondents indicated that they were planning to spend more IT budget in 2023, not less. One contributing factor to managed services’ ongoing growth as a percentage of IT budgets is finding and keeping the right IT talent.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Finally, we were two months away from submitting this year’s budget, which is always a challenge because of the legwork that goes into a budget cycle. But I also needed to focus on strategy to make sure we had capacity in the budget for new initiatives. Budgeting, CIO, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives. Leadership “puts their money where their mouth is.” Those sessions have also been integrated into various learning events for the leadership.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

Throughout these vibrant conversations, CIOs also discussed managing teams and leadership. Consistently across all conversations the senior technology leaders agreed that Canadian CIOs are actively participating with the CEO and leadership teams leading technology, digital transformation, and innovation as the core of business growth.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Transformation efforts can be derailed for any number of reasons, but there are several common themes as to why digital initiatives fall short — and most revolve around leadership. IT leaders must work with business leadership to help establish a clear understanding of digital transformation goals and a practical roadmap for achieving them.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval. Budgeting, Business Continuity, Data and Information Security, Disaster Recovery, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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CIO

MAY 16, 2024

With 43% of CTOs reporting up to another IT leader or LOB executive, according to the 2024 State of the CIO survey , and just 38% having a budget separate from IT, as change agents they can find themselves in a difficult spot. You cultivate that senior leadership team with a high degree of transparency and trust.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

Especially in IT organizations—where budgets came under more scrutiny in 2023—CIOs need to show they’re not using AI for AI’s sake. Whether it’s streamlining data and analytics to improve sales or working with the CHRO to calculate the costs of a blended workforce, executive-level partnerships will be a defining attribute of CIO leadership.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Here, veteran CIOs and executive leadership experts highlight the essential traits required to be a standout IT leader today. In other words, they excel at managing IT budgets, projects, staffing needs, and so on. It allows them to set up their teams for success,” Bloom says — a mark of real leadership.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Assuming the candidate passes muster on those counts, the individual can expect very positive short- and long-term impacts on their careers by taking up this emerging IT leadership role, he says. While Coto works closely with other leaders to align AI initiatives with the overall budget, he does have a certain degree of budgetary autonomy. “I

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 12, 2022

What steps can a CIO take in order to avoid spending their budget buying technology that will just end up going to waste? As the CIO, you are in charge of determining where the department’s budget gets spent. It can be all too easy for a CIO to make spending mistakes and end up wasting a large portion of their budget.

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CIO

MAY 15, 2024

But when it came to other personnel decisions, in which Plattner had a say, the company didn’t always have good luck with successive leadership and increases in maintenance fees, which battered customer relationship for years, so SAP had to revise its pricing policy. Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Management, IT Leadership, SAP

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Project scope During the planning phase, all project details must be solidified , including goals, deliverables, assumptions, roles, tasks, timeline, budget, resources, quality aspects, terms, and so on. Budget for surprises. Quality management: Identify quality requirements.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

APRIL 10, 2024

Use this common budgeting technique to set goals that are more relevant and actionable. When you’re setting goals, you can borrow a technique from a common budgeting process called zero-based budgeting. Every dollar you’re going to spend in the budget is justified.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings. This can be a challenge to cyber budgets in organizations where security is viewed primarily as a cost center. Cyber budgets must be spent wisely, often without increasing costs or targeting the most likely risks.

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CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

There are, for example, those in leadership roles who, while promoting the value of risk-taking, also insist on “holding people accountable.” And if by some chance your preventive measures are completely successful you’ll be blamed for wasting budget and effort on unnecessary mitigations. IT Leadership, Risk Management

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CIO

MAY 26, 2023

I was regularly interacting not only with the IT leadership but also with the other business teams such as SCM, HR, accounts and finance, strategy, and M&A of the Reliance Group. We have already prepared the budget towards that end, which is in the process of approval. I knew how to engage with the leadership team.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2023

Leadership is what makes the difference between dragging employees along and their moving in the right direction on their own. Leadership is a useful tool for making that happen (see “dog,” above). Leadership is a useful tool for making that happen (see “dog,” above). IT Leadership, IT Management, IT Strategy

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2023

Dr Setia, also the chairperson of the centre for digital transformation at the business school, teaches graduate-level courses on the leadership of digital organizations, strategic management of digital innovations, and digital transformation. How should CIOs tackle each of these to ensure smooth and effective digital transformation?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This blog will examine how enterprises can take stock of their systems, and offer best practices for IT teams with small budgets looking to re-tool. This can create knowledge gaps where leadership thinks a system is performing fine. Getting by on Small Budgets. Enterprise, HPE, IT Leadership

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

We are giving our budget and proposed projects more scrutiny to invest in areas that have clear attribution toward generated increased revenue, more efficiencies, lower costs, and improved workplace experiences,” Srivastava says. He attributes the cautious attitude of tech leaders to elevated inflationary pressures and higher interest rates.

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Accenture

JULY 10, 2019

For all the ink that is spilled calling to revolutionize things like annual budgeting cycles or performance management, these were once very effective innovations. Take budgeting, where the inventor actually was James O. Who Does the Budget Serve? Why do we budget? What is the purpose of a budget? Budget as Target.

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2024

But that’s about to change, said Fleming, as executive leadership seeks to understand how AI and automation benefit the bottom line. But by next year, leadership will ask hard questions, such as: ‘How much will it cost to integrate Gen AI into our business?’ Hardware spending will drive up the cost of AI adoption,” said Fleming. “So

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CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This is especially true for an industrial facility where the IT budget constantly competes with the budget for the machines and vehicles used for product production. Budgeting, CIO, Cloud Management, Data Architecture, Data Management, Enterprise Architecture, IT Leadership

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2023

While investing in technology is key—and becoming more so—this doesn’t mean that CIO budgets won’t come under pressure, both for capital spend as well as for operations and maintenance (O&M). Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

Keep tabs on the keep the lights on (KTLO) budget If you fall on hard times in your personal life, you pay for your mortgage, health insurance, and groceries first to cover the necessities: shelter, security, and food, respectively. What are the necessities in your IT budget to keep the lights on (KTLO)?

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Deep, unreasonable budget cuts. The IT budget has just been slashed by colleagues who have no idea how their decision will damage essential services. In the event a negative budget change is proposed, the CIO should be asking tough questions and paying close attention to the replies. Careers, CIO, IT Leadership

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2024

An MBA exposes IT leaders to critical business competencies by widening their perspective, developing leadership skills, and establishing management skills,” says Pranu Bhargava, executive vice president of technology at AllCampus, a company that partners with universities to offer online degree and certificate programs. “In

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94% As every CIO can attest, the aggregate demand for IT and data capabilities is straining their IT leadership teams. Digital Transformation, Generative AI, IT Leadership, IT Strategy, IT Training

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