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Top CIO strategies for 2025: How to optimize IT budgets and innovate with lean teams
The new year is always a pivotal moment for IT leaders. As a CIO, I spent years grappling with the challenges of thin budgets and high expectations – in short, I’ve seen how the structure of IT teams can adapt under pressure. A growing trend is the shift toward leaner, more agile teams responding to economic turbulence, technological upheaval, and…
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The IT department is finally getting the recognition it deserves, and it’s all down to the rise of AI – workers are gaining C-suite praise, bigger budgets, and pay rises
The rise of generative AI has boosted the status of IT departments, according to new research, helping IT leaders drive career growth, secure pay rises, and gain promotions. In a survey by software firm 1E, nearly six-in-ten US IT leaders said the rise of AI had improved their IT department’s status within their company, making them more influential. Nearly nine-in-ten…
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AI could help UK government stretch budgets – but skills and data protection concerns could hamper progress
Rolling out generative AI solutions could help the UK government stretch budgets further, according to a report from Google Cloud, but public sector workers said challenges around regulation, skills, and data need to be solved first. Google Cloud called for everything from healthcare to policing to be automated, following a survey of 415 public sector workers. The report notes the…
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Software developers, security experts, and even investment bankers all report that ‘tool sprawl’ is burning budgets and wasting employees’ time
Bloated software ecosystems saturated with underutilized or inefficient SaaS tools are bogging down practitioners operating across a range of different industries, but what can be done to remedy the situation? Enterprises have complained repeatedly about being bogged down by the digital complexity in their IT estates, which is not only impacting productivity, but also expanding attack surfaces and exposing them…
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Cyber workforce growth slows as tight budgets hit hiring targets — and it’s going to create a more dangerous threat landscape and send burnout through the roof
Growth of the global cybersecurity workforce has slowed for the first time in six years, according to new research, while cyber threats show no signs of slowing. ISC2’s Cybersecurity Workforce Study found the global workforce amounted to 5.5 million people, marking a 0.1% year on year increase, whereas the labor pool had grown by as much as 8.7% year on…
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