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7 Cost Optimization Pitfalls To Avoid

CIO, Thursday, October 9th, 2025

Businesses are moving away from traditional cost-cutting to embrace growth-oriented cost optimization. That requires CIOs to be even more strategic and business-aligned with their IT budget decisions.

A rapidly growing number of CIOs are embracing cost optimization as a way to ensure stability and funding for investments in key areas both old and new. Unfortunately, in their haste to drive cost optimization to its maximum potential, many CIOs also find themselves inadvertently making mistakes that reduce or even eliminate cost optimization's value.

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