News - Par Tamsir Fayer, le 14 Apr 2025

Technical Debt: A Strategic Challenge for CIOs in the Era of Budgetary Trade-offs

Technical Debt: A Growing Burden for CIOs

Technical debt is often compared to a credit card: it allows for quick progress in the short term, but the interest accumulates... and ends up being costly. According to a recent survey, 81% of CIOs identify technical debt as a major concern, and 56% of them believe their company has “a lot” of it.

What are the types of technical debt?

1. Structural debt: aging systems, rigid architectures.

2. Software debt: obsolete versions, dependency on vendors or constraining economic models.

3. Organizational debt: manual processes, missing documentation, dependency on key skills.

4. Security debt: known vulnerabilities not corrected, postponed updates.

Why is this a strategic issue?

• 🔧 Increasing maintenance costs

• 🚫 Innovation barriers

• 📉 Decreased performance

• 💸 Risk of budget overruns

How to regain control of technical debt?

✔️ Audit software and hardware assets: map applications, licenses, and infrastructures.

✔️ Rationalize: eliminate redundancies, migrate to more sustainable alternatives (e.g., second-hand software, perpetual licenses).

✔️ Prioritize critical debts: based on their impact on security, compliance, or productivity.

✔️ Negotiate with business units: to balance modernization efforts versus business needs.

Softcorner: A Pragmatic Response to Software Debt

At Softcorner, we assist CIOs in managing their technical debt, notably through the optimization of their software licenses. The resale or purchase of second-hand licenses allows:

• to extend the lifespan of a software inventory,

• to avoid costly forced migrations,

• to escape the trap of certain imposed SaaS models.

Conclusion

Technical debt is not a fatality. It is the result of past decisions, but also an opportunity to rethink IT governance. Provided that denial is overcome and a real remediation strategy is implemented.

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