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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5%

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Budgeting and planning for your first digital product

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Be clear about your budget bracket. Then, you can reframe the issue into how much of a working, functional digital product can be built with that budget and how long it will take to do that. The budgets and timeframes for new end-user software products tend to fall into one of several categories. Budget range.

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Focus on cost and agility to ensure your cloud migration success

CIO

When businesses migrate to public cloud, they expect to enjoy greater agility, resiliency, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. Cost-efficiency and expectations of agility should be integral to a properly orchestrated cloud-migration program. Agility is not always well understood,” explains DePerro.

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Why agile? How agile vanishes hidden costs

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Management summary Why agile? How agile vanishes hidden costs. Agile has a kind of haze around it. Many embarked on an agile transformation. This article elaborates on how Agile strengthens your bottom line. This article elaborates on how Agile strengthens your bottom line.

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Transforming IT for digital success

CIO

As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.”

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO

Delivering on time and on budget Completing software projects in a timely manner while staying within budget is a long-time challenge of software development. One possible solution is to embrace the agile methodology of software development. Any number of things can happen to cause delays and drive up costs.

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Top 10 business needs driving IT spending today

CIO

Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. This comes after years of transformational initiatives being cited as the top reason driving budget increases. Top 10 business needs driving IT spend.

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