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Budget or Budgeting

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Budgeting refers to the process of planning, allocating and managing financial resources within an organization. A strategic budget ensures financial stability and supports business objectives.

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When you’re working on budgeting alongside your CISO, do you ever find that one perspective tends to take precedence over the other? How do you approach finding a balance and making collaborative decisions together?

Do you manage AI and traditional IT infrastructure investments as separate portfolios (budgets, governance, decision criteria), or do you combine them? What are the benefits and drawbacks?

What is the best recommended approach to build intracompany billing in IT shared services models for a group of companies?

Any advice for a new CIO planning their first budget for IT? What tips do you have for securing the funding IT needs?

Which of these areas are you targeting for funding increases in your 2026 cybersecurity budget? (Choose all applicable)

Threat detection & response 51%

Identity & access management 62%

Cloud security 49%

Security awareness training 29%

Other 2%

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What adjustments are you planning to make to your org’s cyber budget for 2026 (if any)?

Where do you see the best ROI for IT training dollars?

Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)29%

Technical bootcamps/workshops48%

Industry conferences15%

Online learning platforms (e.g., Udemy, Coursera)8%

Something else

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What cloud cost optimization strategies have you found most effective in your organization? Are there specific techniques or best practices that have helped you reduce expenses without sacrificing the resources your teams need?

Are you using PLAs and ODMs?

Gartner is increasingly advocating for both in their reports.
As vendors (regardless of what we do), is the conversation about ODMs (Outcome Driven Metrics) and PLAs (Protection Level Agreement) practical or still 'academic'?

We don't use any40%

We only use ODMs60%

We only use PLAs

We use both

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What sorts of strategic changes are you making to your IT budget for 2026? Are you reallocating funding from areas like infrastructure or talent in response to evolving priorities related to AI?

We are in the process of implementing a chatbot for our local government site with intentions to deploy for internal use only for testing. We are having problems quantifying is the cost around token consumption. I know that cost varies depending on the model used, but does anyone have any useful estimators. Consumption calculators I have found don't seem particularly useful. What methods for estimating cost did you use? Did you use number of searches against the site?

About this topic

Community Posts

When you’re working on budgeting alongside your CISO, do you ever find that one perspective tends to take precedence over the other? How do you approach finding a balance and making collaborative decisions together?

Do you manage AI and traditional IT infrastructure investments as separate portfolios (budgets, governance, decision criteria), or do you combine them? What are the benefits and drawbacks?

What is the best recommended approach to build intracompany billing in IT shared services models for a group of companies?

Any advice for a new CIO planning their first budget for IT? What tips do you have for securing the funding IT needs?

Which of these areas are you targeting for funding increases in your 2026 cybersecurity budget? (Choose all applicable)

What adjustments are you planning to make to your org’s cyber budget for 2026 (if any)?

Where do you see the best ROI for IT training dollars?

What cloud cost optimization strategies have you found most effective in your organization? Are there specific techniques or best practices that have helped you reduce expenses without sacrificing the resources your teams need?

Are you using PLAs and ODMs? Gartner is increasingly advocating for both in their reports. As vendors (regardless of what we do), is the conversation about ODMs (Outcome Driven Metrics) and PLAs (Protection Level Agreement) practical or still 'academic'?

What sorts of strategic changes are you making to your IT budget for 2026? Are you reallocating funding from areas like infrastructure or talent in response to evolving priorities related to AI?

Community Posts

When you’re working on budgeting alongside your CISO, do you ever find that one perspective tends to take precedence over the other? How do you approach finding a balance and making collaborative decisions together?

Do you manage AI and traditional IT infrastructure investments as separate portfolios (budgets, governance, decision criteria), or do you combine them? What are the benefits and drawbacks?

What is the best recommended approach to build intracompany billing in IT shared services models for a group of companies?

Any advice for a new CIO planning their first budget for IT? What tips do you have for securing the funding IT needs?

Which of these areas are you targeting for funding increases in your 2026 cybersecurity budget? (Choose all applicable)

What adjustments are you planning to make to your org’s cyber budget for 2026 (if any)?

Where do you see the best ROI for IT training dollars?

What cloud cost optimization strategies have you found most effective in your organization? Are there specific techniques or best practices that have helped you reduce expenses without sacrificing the resources your teams need?

Are you using PLAs and ODMs? Gartner is increasingly advocating for both in their reports. As vendors (regardless of what we do), is the conversation about ODMs (Outcome Driven Metrics) and PLAs (Protection Level Agreement) practical or still 'academic'?

What sorts of strategic changes are you making to your IT budget for 2026? Are you reallocating funding from areas like infrastructure or talent in response to evolving priorities related to AI?

Are you using PLAs and ODMs?

Gartner is increasingly advocating for both in their reports.
As vendors (regardless of what we do), is the conversation about ODMs (Outcome Driven Metrics) and PLAs (Protection Level Agreement) practical or still 'academic'?

Are you using PLAs and ODMs?

Gartner is increasingly advocating for both in their reports.
As vendors (regardless of what we do), is the conversation about ODMs (Outcome Driven Metrics) and PLAs (Protection Level Agreement) practical or still 'academic'?