CIO

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Graded’s Ardolino says that when he presents a project to top management, he starts with a descriptive overview and then combines KPIs that can measure the estimated positive impact in different business areas, for example reduction in man hours or the benefits of data retrieval. Budgeting, C-Suite, CIO, Data Management, IT Leadership

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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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Netflix Tech

AUGUST 24, 2022

by Ehtsham Elahi with James McInerney , Nathan Kallus , Dario Garcia Garcia and Justin Basilico Introduction This writeup is about using reinforcement learning to construct an optimal list of recommendations when the user has a finite time budget to make a decision from the list of recommendations.

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CIO

MARCH 25, 2024

In contrast, traditional organisations use a project-based approach to delivery, with temporary teams created on an as-needed basis for a specific purpose with budgets based on up-front funding estimates. If the scope is clear and easy to define up-front, it’s a great way to keep everyone on track and ensure teams are delivering to budget.

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Tenable

OCTOBER 6, 2023

A SANS Institute survey found that budgets for ICS/OT security have shrunk, and advises on how to do more with less. Essentially, budgets are down in just about every category we analyzed,” the SANS Institute report reads. That range climbs to around $238,000 to $350,000 in San Francisco, for example. And much more!

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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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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? A good example of this comes from companies that have assumed that their customers would use PayPal if they offered it as a payment option. This could result in a big budget drain. Where Is The Money Going?

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Openxcell

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Let’s explore the role of blockchain in education, as well as its examples and implementation challenges. A good example would be defending employers against someone claiming to have a degree but in fact, does not. Here are some examples of blockchain education use cases that many institutions have already implemented.

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CIO

JANUARY 12, 2024

For example, here in Saudi Arabia, we have witnessed regulations such as the Saudi Arabia Monetary Authority (SAMA) Cybersecurity Framework undergoing several changes which organisations are supposed to comply with such as the integration of cyber threat intelligence principles as one of its integral components.

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2024

As you plan your security budget, know that your recommendations to improve cybersecurity will be scrutinized more than ever before. No budget is unlimited. For example, educate employees to see if they can recognize and avoid a phishing email. Expect your CFO to ask: “ Don’t we already have a tool that does this? ”

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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 It’s about value creation.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. Then there’s housekeeping.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

We’ll use them as an example of a typical Scrum team. Since they spent only three of the budgeted four hours, they feel like heroes and use the extra hour of time to work on the Product Backlog Items (PBIs). The post Scrum by Example – How Sprint Planning Mistakes Can Derail a Team first appeared on Agile Pain Relief Consulting.

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Mentormate

JANUARY 12, 2021

For an existing Agile project , there’s usually a predetermined budget that accounts for all of the year’s planned features and projects. And if a project team decides they want more features or projects completed, they can choose to add to the budget. How do you know what to budget for? For example: Small: 0 – 100 Hours.

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PowerSchool

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As an assistant superintendent who manages budgeting for a district with 5,000-plus students, I know all about the financial challenges K-12 leaders face today. For most districts, salaries and benefits make up the vast majority of the budget. For most districts, salaries and benefits make up the vast majority of the budget.

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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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Datavail

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Layoffs and budget cuts abound. Up to 80% of a CIO’s budget can be spent maintaining legacy systems, according to some estimates. One of our higher education clients is a great example of how application modernization can bring major benefits to the bottom line. 98% of U.S. CEOs indicate they are anticipating a recession.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For example, here in Saudi Arabia, we have witnessed regulations such as the Saidi Arabia Monetary Authority (SAMA) Cybersecurity Framework undergoing several changes which organisations are supposed to comply with such as the integration of cyber threat intelligence principles as one of its integral components.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s easy to view these as competing priorities vying for CIO attention and budget that are unfairly dwarfed by boardroom interest in the new and shiny opportunities promised by gen AI. But in other areas, IT teams will look to increase budgets and spending.

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Ivanti

AUGUST 25, 2022

Prioritizing an increased budget for IT departments will secure devices, protect valuable information and limit malicious attacks. Tragic examples. of their IT budget ($5 million annually) to secure devices. Budget owners often struggle with allocating resources to secure their environments. Phishing at 45%.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As has been pointed out in this space numerous times (for example, here ), this is a terrible idea. Overseeing the IT budgeting process: Each IT manager has a budget to manage to. Sadly, in most companies budgeting looks more like a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey than a well defined and consistent algorithm.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

For example, the aggregation of billing data, and the act of grouping tags to populate all the attributes that must be applied after data ingestion, can be burdensome on some cloud cost optimization tools, slowing down efforts to react to the spending data. Garcia gives the example of the AWS cURL file, written three times daily.

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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. We’re investing a significant amount of time, resources, and budget to ensure we remain competitive in the digital age.” He is still figuring out the how-to part.

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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. An easy example?

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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.” To illustrate, some examples: Applications portfolio rationalization : The most fundamental guiding principle of technical architecture management is to fill each required service exactly once.

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Tandem

AUGUST 25, 2020

All Tandem team members have an annual budget to spend on learning activities related to their work, like classes, online training, books, screencasts, or industry-related conferences. Mina: In the past, I’ve used my learning budget for conference admission fees. How do I prove a concept as quickly and cheaply as possible?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For example, it highlighted a 153% rise in global ransomware attacks from September 2022 to September 2023. For example, Antonio Taylor, vice president of infrastructure, services, and security at Transnetyx and marketing chair for SIM’s Memphis chapter, says he’s dealing with the impact of inflation. That’s what really concerns me.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In times of economic downturn, for example, cybercrime may increase as people turn to illegal activities to make money. This is the time when many CFOs trawl through every line item in the budget, looking for potential savings. Cyber budgets must be spent wisely, often without increasing costs or targeting the most likely risks.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As an IT leader, you deal with balancing benefits and budgets within the rapid pace of technological change every day. For example, real-time analytics are used in retail stores to enhance in-the-moment customer experiences. For example, accounting offices often require usage restrictions on sensitive, financial data.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The US Commerce Department in January, for example, proposed a rule banning Chinese companies from training their LLM models in US cloud environments. For example, what if a Chinese company hires an American AI firm and pays them to train various LLMs in that American company’s US-based cloud environment?

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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. We’ll also provide examples of rejigging a system to improve performance. Getting by on Small Budgets. The Importance of Self-Analysis.

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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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CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In banking and financial services applications, for example, GenAI solutions are being developed to analyze customer data, market data, economic trends, and more to help support highly personalized insights and guidance.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

We consultants are well-armed with pithy anecdotes about past clients within which we unearthed a costly example of something-or-other that wasn’t worth doing. And in fact, when I conduct leadership seminars, the biggest barrier to success for most participants is figuring out and committing to their time budget.

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CIO

MAY 4, 2022

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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

So how do sales teams make convincing cases on why their product or service is deserving of today’s trimmed enterprise IT budgets? To adapt, we’re seeing sales professionals become more mindful of budgets and their relationship with customers than the quick sell.

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