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Capacity Planning

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Capacity planning involves forecasting, analyzing and allocating the necessary resources to ensure that business processes can handle current and future workload demands efficiently. Effective capacity planning aligns resource management with organizational goals and anticipated process growth.

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Who should have the ultimate responsibility for Resources Management i.e. Assigning tasks to resources, Assigning resources on projects, Keep a check if resources are free and engage them etc - the CTO or the PM?

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As a CISO, what are the top 3 tasks that take up the most of your time in an average week?

Security operations58%

Writing policies56%

Vendor management50%

Business strategy35%

Other (comment below)2%

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What advice would you offer CTOs looking to build and scale new teams from the ground up?

Will AI negatively impact the workforce at large?

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When the business’s needs exceed the abilities of the internal IT team, outsourcing IT is a better solution than giving the internal team more resources.

Strongly agree7%

Agree66%

Neutral15%

Disagree7%

Strongly disagree3%

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Has anyone completed a transition to S4 Hana TMS/GTS/WM? What was your overall experience? What would you do differently?

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Performance management has improved employee satisfaction and reduced employee attrition in my organization.

Strongly agree6%

Agree53%

Neutral24%

Disagree7%

Strongly disagree8%

Other (please comment)

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Has anyone faced what you consider to be higher than necessary software renewal fees this year because of "inflation"? Is this showing up for you as a real problem, or is this just the media blowing it out of proportion?

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Has anyone setup a new intake process for their department and if so, what did you model the processes on? Did you make use of a software package, and what are the key points for tracking, assignment, organizing and reporting.

Can anyone share the tools/platform needed for IT Asset, Software and Vendor Management in banking ? Could be standalone, could also be CMDB related for higher quality management.

CISOs/heads of security - when capacity constraints are getting in the way of your goals, do you generally feel comfortable explaining this to your exec team? How do you approach that convo without potentially inviting doubts about your own capabilities?

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Is the current talent shortage in IT affecting your security posture?

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Originally for Telecoms (but applicable to many other verticals too) What software systems (both off-the-shelf & in-house) is your GIS stack comprised of, which is used to plan and build (and then manage) an optic fiber network?

What guardrails have your team put in place to streamline working with the sales team?

Would you have done anything differently leading up to the IPO, now that you're on the other side?

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How do you approach staffing needs when you’re under pressure to lower costs? Are there strategies you've found effective to cope with understaffing on your security teams?