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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. Capitalizing on technology budgets presents a viable solution. Focus on value, not just price : The lowest bidder does not always win.

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CIOs are worried about the informal rise of generative AI in the enterprise

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Organizations are seeing a dramatic rise in informal adoption of gen AI – tools and platforms used without official sanctioning. A CISO at a major marketing software firm worried about this explicitly, stating, “The real risk is that you have unintentional data leakage of confidential information. Here’s what I learned. Privacy leaks?

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DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

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Cloud cost management remains a critical CIO priority. For CIOs who may need to customize their cloud cost information streams or manage a complex cloud estate, do-it-yourself cloud cost management may be the way to go.

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Whether your technology is new or old, lifecycle management is key

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Business needs first, then the lifecycle management program Your infrastructure lifecycle management program should be aligned with your organization’s growth roadmap. This will involve comprehensive and proactive infrastructure management. Lifecycle management keeps an equal focus on an asset through all its stages.

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20 traits of highly effective project managers

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To thrive, project managers need to have and hone a complex combination of technical, business, and interpersonal skills. Effective project managers must know how to define the scope of a project , identify necessary resources, and schedule those resources — all part of the technical aspect of the job.

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It’s a new dawn of AI-powered knowledge management

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For the last 30 years, the dream of being able to collect, manage and make use of the collected knowledge assets of an organization has never been truly realized. But the rise of large language models (LLMs) is starting to make true knowledge management (KM) a reality. The knowledge management dream is becoming a reality.

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VMware customers take wait-and-see approach amid Broadcom changes

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For now, Andrew Cotter, CIO at large equipment financing firm Somerset Capital Group, is sticking with VMware, although he’s concerned about possible price hikes when his company’s VMware licenses are up for renewal. But Somerset Capital runs its developer environment in house using VMware. “As Do we go with something else?’”

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