by Unni Rajendran | May 25, 2026 | ITFM Planning
I’ve sat through more IT planning cycles than I care to count. They rarely go badly in a dramatic way – they just move painfully slowly and produce outcomes that don’t quite make sense. The culprit is almost always the same: no agreed framework for...
by Unni Rajendran | May 22, 2026 | ITFM Planning
Planning cycles in most IT organizations run four to seven months. By the time they conclude, the conditions that shaped them have already begun to shift. The question of how to reduce IT planning cycle time is one I hear from almost every CIO I talk to, and the...
by Unni Rajendran | May 20, 2026 | ITFM Planning
Roughly 80% of AI projects never reach production, and 42% of companies abandoned most AI initiatives in 2025. The root cause is almost never the technology – it is the strategy, planning, and governance that surrounds it. Standard portfolio tools were not built...
by Unni Rajendran | May 19, 2026 | ITFM Planning
I’ve spent years working with CIOs and CFOs on IT planning cycles, and one thing has stayed remarkably consistent: a remarkable number of the most consequential technology investment decisions get made on the back of a spreadsheet. It feels familiar. It feels...
by Unni Rajendran | Mar 13, 2025 | ITFM Planning
In today’s complex IT landscape, CIOs must move beyond traditional budget prioritization approaches that rely on the corporate objectives and embrace value-based planning—a structured framework that prioritizes and funds technology initiatives based on their...
