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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

CIO

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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4 ways to ensure CEO support for your digital strategy

CIO

In the age of digital transformation, the CIO’s role is increasingly central to business, focused on driving growth and establishing a new digital culture across the organization. It’s important for the CEO to make his presence felt and support the new culture.” Even moving from a paper document to a file can be challenging.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

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And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. Here veteran IT leaders and advisers offer eight strategies to speed up IT modernization. They target modernizations efforts at these unmet needs.

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Proving your worth: Strategies to validate and elevate your IT service department

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The following are strategies you can leverage as a team to change this attitude: Leveraging data for impact One key strategy is using data to demonstrate the service desk’s influence on your organization’s bottom line. To illustrate the real-world impact of these strategies, let’s focus on Wodonga TAFE. Managed IT Services

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

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Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets.

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Diversity and inclusion: 7 best practices for changing your culture

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CIO.com spoke to DEI leaders and experts to uncover the best practices for building diverse teams and a culture that nurtures those teams and individuals to stop the churn and get closer to the organization’s overall D&I goals. But if your company is not a startup, it is still important to fix your culture before you recruit.

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IT Budgeting: Exploring Cost Reduction Strategies

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Building an IT budget that drives innovation and business growth while controlling costs at the same time can be a herculean struggle for many IT teams. Let’s look at some ways IT teams can find that balance between cost control and innovation in their 2021 IT budgets. IT Budgeting. IT Cost-Reduction Strategies.

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