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8 ways to detect (and reject) terrible IT consulting advice

CIO Business Intelligence

Taking any consultant’s guidance at face value is risky and potentially enterprise and career damaging. Before embracing any external advice on any IT or business issue, check out the following eight ways to determine whether a consultant is truly on track.

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CIOs not entirely sold on generative AI copilots

CIO Business Intelligence

A new breed of AI assistant has set its sights on the enterprise user in recent months, with Microsoft and other vendors promising huge productivity gains that offset the cost. Its Copilot for Microsoft 365, a high-profile offering among the growing list of AI agents, costs $30 per seat per month, with a 300-seat minimum. No,” he says.

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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

CIO Business Intelligence

And they want to know exactly how much return on investment (ROI) can be expected when IT leaders make technology-related changes. CFOs have grown comfortable with the traditional project-based approach, through which they believe they get a better handle on spend certainty and a better sense of ROI.

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Maximizing business outcomes and scaling AI adoption with a Hybrid by design approach 

IBM Big Data Hub

However, while embracing hybrid cloud might be intrinsic, clients continually seek to derive business value and higher return on investment (ROI) from their investments. The lack of ROI progress can be attributed to several factors, including slow adoption, unrealized use cases and unaddressed cloud sprawl.

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Determining ROI in Uncertain Times

Jet Global

They get a leg up on the competition, launch new innovations, and benefit as the economy moves back in a positive direction. CFOs have an opportunity to play a key role in positioning their companies for a successful rebound by carefully assessing return on investment (ROI) and helping the C-suite make the right capital investments.

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Forrester Does the Math on the ROI of the Alation Data Catalog

Alation

To answer that question, Alation worked with Forrester Consulting and seven of our production customers to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study. The research examined the potential ROI enterprises realize by deploying Alation. They looked at the benefits, costs and risks associated with a data catalog investment.

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3 areas where gen AI improves productivity — until its limits are exceeded

CIO Business Intelligence

But the biggest benefit was to new and lower-skilled workers, who saw a 34% improvement. In February, McKinsey released the results of a survey showing that 84% of telcos using gen AI for customer services were seeing cost savings, and 45% of them reduced costs by 6% or more.

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