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IBRSiQ October 2025
Lately, the big questions for CIOs have revolved around strategic ICT challenges, ensuring proper governance and maximum value from IT investments. The key trend is artificial intelligence (AI), with senior leaders keen to understand the AI landscape, including practical uses for generative AI, to guide investment decisions and ensure the new tools align with established principles
IBRSiQ October 2025
Lately, the big questions for CIOs have revolved around strategic ICT challenges, ensuring proper governance and maximum value from IT investments. The key trend is artificial intelligence (AI), with senior leaders keen to understand the AI landscape, including practical uses for generative AI, to guide investment decisions and ensure the new tools align with established principles
Security Policy Template Generator
Developing comprehensive security policies can be difficult. Use the IBRS service to quickly generate a tailored policy template, ready for customisation.
VENDORiQ: AWS’s New Zealand Region – Business as Usual or a Sign of Shifting Priorities?
AWS’s New Zealand region is essential expansion, yet broader investment shifts toward high-risk, high-reward AI infrastructure will affect core cloud services.
VENDORiQ: Atlassian’s $1Bn Browser Bet: A Productivity Play or a Costly Distraction?
Atlassian’s $610m browser acquisition is a high-stakes bet on secure, specialised AI productivity against free, embedded Microsoft/Google competition.
VENDORiQ: Cubesys – Is Outsourcing Azure Desktop Services Management a Sensible Path to VDI Efficiency?
For Azure Virtual Desktop, executives must choose: fully outsourcing daily ops, or empowering internal teams with specialised management platforms.
IBRSiQ September 2025
Despite an unwavering focus on fundamental operational excellence, value delivery, and governance, senior ICT leaders are increasingly balancing immediate security and compliance needs with a strategic evaluation of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and generative AI to drive future efficiency and organisational value.
Value and Pricing in the Intangible Economy: B2B Commercial Excellence for Buyers – Webinar and Presentation Kit
Modernising B2B contracts is key to value creation, shifting from time-and-materials to rewarding outcomes for sustainable, innovative partnerships.