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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

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While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

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Top 8 ways to improve cybersecurity for your organization

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As you plan your security budget, know that your recommendations to improve cybersecurity will be scrutinized more than ever before. No budget is unlimited. Below, I’ll share my most effective strategies for improving cybersecurity across your organization. or “ How long will this take to show results? ”

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Diversity and inclusion: 7 best practices for changing your culture

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According to a recent study in the Harvard Business Review (HBR), organizations of all sizes have made unprecedented investments around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the past few years. In a lot of organizations, especially in tech organizations, you get a revolving door,” says Stuart McCalla, managing partner at Evolution.

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How culture and strategic partnerships help fuel transformation

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So building a cohesive internal culture is integral to IT success, as well as achieving personal and professional goals. What supports our organizational strategy from technology is building an engineering culture, being customer-obsessed and outcome-focused, and simplifying and modernizing our technology stack.

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Driving a culture of innovation at Merchants Fleet

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And according to Jeanine Charlton, the company’s SVP and chief technology and digital officer, 2021 was their best year ever, helped in large part to its approach to digital transformation and an emphasis on organizational culture. We provision a budget to enable that to happen. she says. “We

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6 signs it’s time to restructure your IT organization

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And if the initiative misses its goal, or runs over budget, the CIO’s job may be at stake. Restructuring can create uncertainty and stress in an organization, and it shouldn’t be used lightly or regularly, Sinclair explains. He notes that IT organizations can usually work through almost any problem as long as the parties grow together.

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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2024

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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. It starts with establishing a clear set of agreed upon initiatives and outcomes for the organization,” he says.

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