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CIO & STRATEGY

Tech Trends 2025

The CIO role is evolving from record keeper to forecasting future opportunities and risks. Six trends in 2025 fit into three major themes that will impact organizations in 2025.

APPLICATIONS

Insights Into Software Selection 2025

In this report, we explore 10 key practices from across the software selection lifecycle. Supported by the latest data and combined with practical next steps, this research helps IT leaders select the right software partners to maximize the value of their application portfolios. ​

CIO & STRATEGY

IT Talent Trends 2025

Traditional talent strategies will be no match for the new technologies, expectations, and generations that are reshaping the IT workplace. To successfully deliver on the vision of IT’s exponential future, IT leaders must reimagine talent processes, organizational structures, and their own notions of what it takes to lead IT.

APPLICATIONS

Mature and Scale Product Ownership

Product ownership is not one-size-fits-all or static. It must be tuned and structured to meet the delivery needs of your organization and the customers it serves. Create a culture of product management trust and empowerment with product owners aligned to your operational product needs.

DATA & BI

Establish Data Governance

The amount of data within organizations is growing at an exponential rate, creating a need for organizations to adopt a formal approach to governing their data. However, many organizations remain uninformed on how to effectively and sustainably govern their data.

CIO & STRATEGY

Create a Transparent and Defensible IT Budget

CIOs need a straightforward way to create an approval-ready IT budget that speaks to different stakeholder priorities. Use this blueprint, workbook, and executive presentation template to develop a multi-perspective IT budget and facilitate the budget-approval process.

CIO & STRATEGY

AI Trends 2025

AI’s future is here, and its promise of innovation is matched only by its risk and complexity. The responsibility for navigating the delicate balance of AI risk and AI reward has fallen to CIOs and IT leaders. Learn about the four trends that will inform AI strategies in 2025.

CIO & STRATEGY

Build a Business-Aligned IT Strategy

Create an IT strategy based on business needs, not just intuition. It is no longer enough to generate a text document and call it an IT strategy. Stakeholder attention spans are growing shorter; create a visual IT strategy to show how IT will support the business.

CIO & STRATEGY

Implement a New IT Organizational Structure

Managing organizational design (OD) changes effectively is critical to maintaining IT service levels and retaining top talent throughout a restructure. Yet many organizations fail to invest appropriate consideration and resources into effective OD change planning and execution.

Top SoftwareReviews Category Reports

Customer Relationship Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consists of applications designed to automate and manage the customer life cycle. CRM

Enterprise Resource Planning

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a suite of software applications supporting process areas such as finance, operations, HR, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, and supply chain.

Human Capital Management (HCM)

Human Capital Management (HCM, and often called HRIS or HRMS) software combines a number of systems and processes to ensure the easy management of human resources, business processes and data.

Project Management

Project Management (PM) software helps project managers and teams collaborate on a project, providing tools for task distribution, time management, budget and resource tracking.

Business Intelligence & Analytics (BI)

Business Intelligence (BI) software provides the tools to transform data into actionable insights that inform an organization's strategic and tactical business decisions.

IT Service Management

IT Service Management software supports the processes carried out by an IT department’s service desk, in the course of service delivery, incident management, problem management, and service request fulfillment.

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