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5 common consultant negotiation tactics and how to protect your interests

CIO Business Intelligence

To execute a successful digital transformation initiative, you are likely to establish consulting provider relationships. Unfortunately, many organizations find themselves susceptible to the tactics used by consultants to manage their risk and optimize a commercial arrangement to their benefit.

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Digital Transformation Success: It’s All About Simplicity Through Partnerships

CIO Business Intelligence

The pandemic has put digital transformation up front and center on the CIO’s agenda over the past few years. According to 2022 State of the CIO study , 85% of CIOs are focusing on transformational initiatives with pre-pandemic levels of technology budget growth. Complexity, the key barrier to digital transformation.

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Accenture to lay off 19,000 to cut costs amid economic uncertainty

CIO Business Intelligence

IT services and consultancy firm Accenture said it would lay off 19,000 staffers, or 2.5% of its workforce, over the next 18 months to reduce costs amid uncertain macroeconomic conditions. IT Consulting Services, Technology Industry In addition, the company has revised its fiscal year 2023 revenue growth. billion to $16.7

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

But speaking to many IT leaders, there are often gaps between how IT runs Scrum, Kanban, or other agile practices and what CIOs need in order to achieve digital transformation objectives. Their comments offer insights as to what to do if your teams are “doing agile” but aren’t agile enough to deliver digital transformation results.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

But as digital transformation efforts have intensified in recent years, CIOs have had fewer opportunities to pause and reevaluate IT’s financial situation. That means taking a long hard look at costs and ensuring their spend is focused on the future and not just maintaining the past,” says Jay Upchurch, EVP and CIO at SAS.

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Are You Using a Cloud Experience to Boost Business Value?

CIO Business Intelligence

“Cloud-first strategy” became a cure-all for datacenter impediments, as well as an IT leader’s tentpole for digital transformation. Others conducted apples-to-apples comparisons of public cloud versus on-premises costs. More recently some organizations have reported diminishing returns from their public cloud implementations.

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It’s time to go paperless: are bank branches ready?

CIO Business Intelligence

As most banks maintain a hybrid of physical and digital records, front-line branch associates struggle to provide a friendly, frictionless customer experience. What the chief banking officer understood while visiting a competitor’s branch was both the complexity and the necessity of digital transformation, including paperless initiatives.