article thumbnail

IT budgets remain solid, despite tech industry headwinds

CIO

A report issued Monday by private investment company Bain Capital indicated that, despite the numerous disruptions to the technology industry—including a global supply chain crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—most IT decision makers foresee either stable budgets or increases for the coming year. Budgeting, IT Strategy

Budget 342
article thumbnail

Today’s best CIOs are strategy wranglers

CIO

Twenty-plus years in, CIOs have discovered that, when it comes to IT, everything is going to need a strategy. As CIO, you need a data strategy. You need a cloud strategy. You need a security strategy. Just this past year another strategy must-have arrived to upend nearly every organization.

Strategy 299
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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% Bob Cournoyer, senior director of data strategy, BI, and analytics at Richmond, Va.-based

Budget 345
article thumbnail

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

TechCrunch

A new year is quickly approaching, which brings new resolutions — and new budgets. Jonathan Martinez of JM Strategy advised running parallel campaigns on TikTok, Facebook and Google. 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.

Budget 240
article thumbnail

3 strategies for elevating brand authority in 2021

TechCrunch

2 strategies for creating top-of-funnel marketing content. If you’re one of these marketers, I have some strategies you can use to improve your brand’s authority this year. It can’t happen overnight, but you can start implementing these strategies now to see results over time. Strategy #1: Get media coverage.

Strategy 271
article thumbnail

Why Jackson CIO Mike Hicks had to flip the script on his proven 100-day plan

CIO

I also implement a business value scorecard to showcase progress during those 40 days, seek feedback from trusted advisors I identified upfront, and adjust course as needed. The company was in the final stages of refreshing our business strategy; in September 2021, we spun off from Prudential plc to become an independent public company.

Budget 264
article thumbnail

4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization

CIO

In almost every case, there’s an increased need for data insight and technology-enabled agility to reaffirm technology’s position at the center of investment strategy in order to achieve organizational growth. Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily.