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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

With greater scrutiny on margins and ROI, CIOs must spend wisely, making today’s economic environment a more difficult one for selling preemptive projects that don’t produce immediate ROI. When this happens, corporate risk is heightened as preemptive projects get delayed — sometimes for indefinite periods of time.

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How adopting sustainability as a service can drive business success and help the planet

CIO Business Intelligence

This is designed to help manufacturing, transportation and other industries accelerate sustainability initiatives and make data-driven decisions to reduce their carbon footprint and become more efficient through the intelligent use of IoT connectivity. Today’s complex challenges require ambitious solutions that can scale and evolve over time.

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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

CIO Business Intelligence

Gartner projects that spending on information security and risk management products and services will grow 11.3% To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going.

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8 pressing needs for CIOs in 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

Also, CIOs are asking what processes other people are using around determining proof of concepts, use cases, and ROI for generative AI,” he says. Information security and risk management are always top priorities for Fleetcor Technologies’ CIO Scott DuFour as well, and 2024 will be no different.

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Modular architecture drives productivity and risk management at Gilbane

CIO Business Intelligence

When you look at other industries like manufacturing and services, productivity has continually increased, whereas business productivity in construction has remained fairly flat.” So they’ll be patient when it comes to ROI. We’re in an industry that is ripe for transformation,” says Higgins-Carter, pictured above, center.

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State of the CIO, 2022: Focus turns to IT fundamentals

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-based venture capital firm Sequoia Capital and Houston, Texas-based waste management and environmental services provider WM are making it a priority to finish what was started and refine processes to ensure optimal ROI. a manufacturer of specialty trucks and access equipment based in Oshkosh, Wis.

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CEOs’ top priorities for IT leaders today

CIO Business Intelligence

Overall, IT projects are meant to create a leaner, more profitable company, says Bilker, CIO of manufacturer Lift Solutions Holding. Nevins says many companies have struggled to articulate anticipated ROIs from their AI investments, even those investments that leverage AI tools built into existing enterprise software.

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