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IT spending and budgeting
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Establishing a CCoE can secure your cloud cost savings
CIOs who made, or are considering making, the move to the cloud need to consider these three best practices to achieve real cost savings and efficiencies. Continue Reading
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6 free IT strategic planning templates for CIOs
As technology has become a business differentiator, IT strategy is more crucial than ever. These IT strategic planning templates help CIOs make IT a business driver. Continue Reading
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How to measure usability when selecting an RPA tool
If an RPA tool isn't user-friendly and isn't built for the long term, chances are the dividends won't be immediate. Read this before choosing your RPA tools. Continue Reading
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Enterprise digitization's secret ingredient: Fusion teams
Cross-functional or 'fusion' teams are critical to meeting fast-changing digital challenges. Here are the four must-have team attributes for successful enterprise digitization. Continue Reading
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How to create the best RPA architecture
Enterprises are embracing robotic process automation to automate rules-based, repetitive tasks in a cost-efficient manner. ROI depends on having the right RPA architecture. Continue Reading
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Break the bottleneck with this new IT/business engagement model
CIO teams need to interact more directly with business stakeholders -- from the digital sophisticates to the digital naïfs. Here are five elements of a new business engagement model. Continue Reading
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Product line management is fundamental to the new IT operating model
Digital transformation requires CIOs to rethink the way IT operates. At the center of the new IT operating model is product line management, explains CEB's Matt McWha. Continue Reading
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Selling the value of cloud computing to the C-suite
Selling the value of cloud computing to business leaders requires more than the usual bromides about cost savings and speed-to-market. Continue Reading
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CIO outlook 2017: Five elements of the new IT operating model
CIO outlook 2017: Jettison the plan-build-run model, form fusion teams, hire agile learners, double down on IT risk and spearhead a plan to maximize the value of data. Here's how. Continue Reading
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Radical changes in IT are masked by sluggish information technology budgets
Far from stagnant, corporate IT budgets are actually highly dynamic. Growth is tied to digitization efforts which, in turn, are driving big changes in IT. Continue Reading
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Advice for IT leaders: How to tell the cloud story
The case for cloud computing is less about the technical fine points and more about telling a compelling story to your IT team and business peers. Here are four essential elements. Continue Reading
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Free IT budget plan templates for CIOs
A solid IT budget is key to both managing tech spending and facilitating collaboration. Check out these free IT budget plan templates to help craft yours. Continue Reading
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Track the cost of cloud-based services with better financial management
Companies that don't monitor the cost of cloud-based services could be in for a nasty surprise, warns Gartner analyst Mindy Cancila. Continue Reading
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Microsoft, VMware, Cisco experts vet the cloud for CIOs
What factors do CIOs weigh when choosing between public and private cloud? Is PaaS the future? Is it time to bring back that cloud deployment? Cloud experts offer insight to CIOs. Continue Reading
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Three reasons tech budgets remain firmly within CIO control
Forrester's Andy Bartels spells out the reasons CIOs remain central to tech budgets, starting with the reality that CMOs don't want to go it alone. Continue Reading