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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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8 top priorities for CIOs in 2023

CIO

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. To achieve this goal, “CIOs need to treat the assessment and analysis of data as a scientific discipline,” he advises.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: TAM takedown, green card layoffs, when to ignore investor advice

TechCrunch

Several months later, we’ve since learned that cutting marketing budgets doesn’t make early-stage startups healthier, but it is a great way for VCs to reduce burn rates across their entire portfolio. “Show investors how you are going to build an ever-expanding cadre of delighted customers,” Reichert advises.

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Perspectives on how cloud computing & app development trends will take shape in 2023

CIO

As Kubernetes is becoming more mature, and the ecosystem around it as well is stabilizing, I believe that the challenges we are experiencing around knowledge gaps, and technical difficulties are going to get smaller over the next few years. Kubernetes and containerized environments are here to stay, and their footprint will continue to grow.

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Architecture Modernization Enabling Teams (AMET)

Strategic Tech

This increases the level of technical debt and makes it more fragile. The architecture becomes easier and cheaper to change, enabling faster flow, and reducing technical debt, fragility and security concerns. We advise against AMETs that are fully staffed with external consultants.

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How to approach carbon offsetting on your path to net zero

Capgemini

At Capgemini Invent, we’re putting our clients on a Path to Net Zero, with a portfolio of strategic and operational services designed to accelerate sustainable transformation ambitions. Organizations would be well advised to retain some leeway to adjust their offset portfolio each year to seize such opportunities as they arise.

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