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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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Are You Using a Cloud Experience to Boost Business Value?

CIO Business Intelligence

Like most CIOs you’ve no doubt leaned on ROI, TCO and KPIs to measure the business value of your IT investments. Of late, concerns about the public “cloud-first” approach have emerged to challenge business value and skewer ROI, TCO and KPIs. Others conducted apples-to-apples comparisons of public cloud versus on-premises costs.

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Customer service, especially field service, helps companies outperform competitors and drive growth

CIO Business Intelligence

In economic uncertainty, it’s natural for executives to explore where to reduce spending, trim the fat , so to speak, and cut enterprising investments as a matter of caution. But this thinking is also counter-productive for all the reasons that make uncertainty so predictable.

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Advice from procurement: How to evaluate and propose new IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

As the world continues to experience economic uncertainty, IT leaders look to tighten budgets, consolidate tools and resources, and generally become more risk-averse when evaluating new investments. So how can you request a new investment from your decision-makers while ensuring minimal costs and maximum ROI this year?

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

Some organizations have been innovating, transforming, and growing so fast that they haven’t had time to clear up older cost structures that start getting in the way,” says Stewart Buchanan, research vice president on Gartner’s CIO team. Each dollar of operational cost reduction drips directly to the bottom line.”

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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Economic uncertainty Organizations are concerned about multiple economic forces that are all causing uncertainty, says Srinivas Mukkamala, chief product officer at Ivanti. How do you future-proof your business in the face of so much uncertainty? Inflation is a major issue for CIOs both in direct costs and labor,” Reeher says.

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13 IT resolutions for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs are readying for another demanding year, anticipating that artificial intelligence, economic uncertainty, business demands, and expectations for ever-increasing levels of speed will all be in play for 2024. What benefit does AI serve to that department? He adds: “It’s not about sharing costs or P&L.

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