What tips can you share for driving better business outcomes through strategic IT investments? Which spending areas tend to improve results for the business most efficiently?

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Director of IT in Finance (non-banking)25 days ago

Focus on Bottom-line processes. It will give you some quick wins which will help you to realize strategic IT investments.

Chief Information Officer in Hardware25 days ago

We adopted ZBB (Zero Based Budgeting). This works like magic when implemented in its real sense, it can drive good RIO based decisions on investment.

Chief Information Technology Officer in IT Servicesa month ago

Strategic IT investments must create measurable impact—boosting efficiency, resilience, and innovation. I focus spending where results are tangible: cybersecurity to protect trust, cloud and data to drive agility, automation and AI to free teams for higher-value work, and collaboration tools to enhance engagement. The goal: technology that directly advances organizational performance and citizen value.

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