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Key Strategies To Reduce IT Complexity

CIO, September 19,2025

Cloud, security, and corporate acquisitions are main tech drivers when rethinking enterprise restructuring. CIOs naturally play a strong leadership role at each step, and with the right approach, here's how, and how quickly, they can manage to keep things simple.

Among the many headaches facing CIOs, IT complexity is inevitable in the era of digitalization and AI, but it must be mitigated to promote innovation. If, for example, a company has undergone some M&A, resulting in layered systems, it wouldn't be much of an issue during a lull in technology acceleration, so disruption is limited. But those days are scarce now since technology is rapidly accelerating with an abundance of solutions on the market, especially with cloud. So while options, functionality, and business benefits have increased, so have the number of projects within companies.

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