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Sustainability: Real progress but also thorny challenges ahead

CIO Business Intelligence

IDC’s Sustainability Readiness Index Survey (August 2024) found that 32% of businesses have created strategic road maps, while 26% have begun embedding sustainability into their operations and 20% say that sustainability has become the “new normal.” An operationalized carbon-neutral strategy requires end-to-end visibility on climate data.

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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. Here’s what they list as their 2024 resolutions. He sees 2024 as the year to have good answers.

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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLennan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. But the CIO had several key objectives to meet before launching the transformation.

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Moderate IT budget increases have CIOs shaping 2025 strategies to suit

CIO Business Intelligence

That spectrum of budget adjustments is being met by a range of strategies by IT leaders seeking to make the most of their 2025 IT spend. increase in IT spending overall in 2024, compared to 4% in 2023, software spending growth suggests CIOs need to adjust their budgets downward elsewhere. through 2027. With Forrester projecting a 5.3%

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Top 8 challenges IT leaders will face in 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. To guide an organization through uncertainty, IT leaders must help ensure everyone in the company is on the same page, Srivastava says.

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Marsh McLellan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLellan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. But the CIO had several key objectives to meet before launching the transformation.

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Dell cuts jobs amid growing economic uncertainties

CIO Business Intelligence

As of February 2, 2024, the employee count stood at approximately 120,000, declining from the 133,000 recorded in February 2023. In 2024 alone, 168 tech companies have collectively laid off 42,324 employees. These actions resulted in a reduction in overall headcount. Fourth quarter revenue was down 11 percent year on year.