IT Strategy
From Business Strategies to Successful IT Delivery
Establishing business architecture standards: an industry imperative
The advantages that standardization provides to consumers and practitioners apply to the discipline of business architecture.
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10 cloud mistakes that can sink your business
The cloud offers a wide range of tangible business benefits, but don't let these common blunders cast a shadow on your company's success.
Transformation Nation
The 6 keys to Matson's global digital transformation
Matson Inc.'s IT consolidation and digital transformation efforts have created massive efficiencies. An effort made possible thanks to six crucial elements.
Strategy Translation
Digital initiatives should exploit innovation opportunities available in encapsulated processes
It’s not just the processes surrounding tech; processes present in tech too offer opportunities to make strategic contributions.
Transformation Nation
CIOs reveal what vendors need to know about the purchasing process
Four IT leaders share what tech vendors need to know about the CIO role and the buying process.
The Strategic CIO
What CIOs can learn from Jimmy Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock
For CIOs facing constant transition, this classic film serves as a parable about harnessing the power of paranoia and uncertainty to your benefit and the benefit of your organization and its customers. It also displays the danger of isolation in vivid Technicolor.
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7 sure-fire ways to fail at data analytics
Data analytics is fast becoming the key to a winning business strategy. But without the right approach, skills, and tactics, your data initiatives may never add up.
How-To
What is outsourcing? Definitions, best practices, challenges and advice
Outsourcing can bring big benefits to your business, but there are significant risks and challenges when negotiating and managing outsourcing relationships. Here, we break down everything you need to know to ensure your IT outsourcing initiatives succeed.
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7 secrets for getting digital transformation right
A technology-first approach to digital transformation is a recipe for disaster. Start instead by overhauling your organization with a customer-centric end goal in mind.
Creating IT Value
Digital transformation’s impact on IT shared services
The shared services IT construct doesn’t enable achieving the promise of digital.
The Agile Monetization Blog
Surviving and thriving in a zombie business apocalypse
How technology and entrepreneurialism combined to shift the balance of power to buyers of goods/services from sellers, and what it means for the future of consumption.
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5 hurdles to adopting devops
The devops journey involves significant changes in culture, processes and technologies. Here’s how to overcome the most common challenges along the way.
Inside Software Development Outsourcing
How to start your first trial engagement with outsourcing
Many good reasons exist besides cost that companies pursue software development outsourcing.
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How Bank of America's tech chief manages culture
Data helps Cathy Bessant gauge how her staff understands the corporate mission for a bank undergoing a broad business transformation.
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Anatomy of an IT strategic plan in the era of digital disruption
To effectively support today’s IT-informed business strategies, CIOs must embrace new approaches to IT strategic planning that are more business-driven, flexible, and frequently revisited than in years past.Feature
7 simple ways to fail at agile
Creating and sustaining a successful agile program requires a strong commitment and careful planning. Yet ruining a functional agile initiative is remarkably easy.
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5 pitfalls of self-service BI
Self-service business intelligence offers many benefits, but bringing analytics and reporting closer to business units by bypassing IT can have unintended — and costly — consequences.
Financial Services IT Goes Digital
Is technology spending a cost of doing business or a source of alpha?
A modern-day IT strategy should strive to get an IT organization out of its efficiency and reliability comfort-zone, and elevate its business relevancy through continuous improvement in productivity, throughput and measurable business outcomes.
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AI and machine learning are forcing CIOs to rethink IT strategies
Machine learning and AI are becoming necessary in today’s complicated IT environment, causing CIOs to figure out how to use them so IT pros and business both benefit.
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6 steps to devops success
Making the most of a switch to devops requires new tools, new processes and a significant cultural shift. Here’s how to begin your journey to improved IT service delivery and optimized costs.
Building IT Relationships
Is strategic planning the key to IT cost optimization?
How a Fortune 500 company saved millions using this win-win negotiation tactic.
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Demystifying the dark science of data analytics
Knowledge and planning transforms data analytics from a "dark science" into a mainstream business tool.
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6 hard truths IT must learn to accept
The rise of shadow IT, shortcomings in the cloud, security breaches — IT leadership is all about navigating hurdles and deficiencies, and learning to adapt to inevitable setbacks.
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9 IT projects primed for machine learning
With AI quickly becoming strategic, look for projects that can give you some quick business wins and help you gain the skills to apply machine learning more broadly.
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10 key warnings for your Windows 10 migration
If you’re looking at a Win10 rollout, like Damocles staring at the sword, there are a few important tidbits that every executive needs to understand. Here is your report from the Win10 trenches.
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The top 9 ITSM suite vendors for 2017
Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant report stacks up the best IT service management vendors currently in the market. These nine vendors offer strong ITSM tools to suit businesses with a variety of complexity and needs.
Accelerating Innovation in the Digital Age
What Apple’s App Store can teach us about digital transformation
To help drive the company vision forward, CIOs need to decentralize IT and foster a culture of self-service not unlike that of Apple’s App Store.
Straight Talk on Project Management
CIOaaS? How IT partners must now have the flexibility of a yoga master
Your IT partner needs to be flexible in how it advises, designs and delivers IT services.
From Business Strategies to Successful IT Delivery
Product management using business architecture
As product designs and launches become more complicated and are executed at a quicker pace, product managers and business/enterprise architects need to work together more often to deliver products.
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6 cloud cost management tips
Looking to avoid monthly cloud sticker shock? A cloud cost management strategy that makes use of containers, capacity pre-purchases and more will help you contain runaway cloud spending.
Strategy Translation
3 must-ask questions while evaluating vendors for digital initiatives
Capabilities that determine whether or not your initiative will have strategic potential.
Finance Meets the Cloud
How IT can help your accounting function prepare for rev rec
Depending on the number, complexity and scope of your organization’s customer contracts, and your current ERP, the new rule may require significant investment (time, systems, auditors, consultants). To maximize efficiency, IT should be prepared to equip accountants with systems to gather and utilize the necessary information.
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Modernizing IT: How to thrive as a CIO ‘value broker’
IT is undergoing a sea change, thanks to shifting budgets and the rise of ‘shadow IT.’ But with company-wide vision, strong IT-business relationships and a focus on value, CIOs can expand their horizons.
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IBM CIO bets big on digital workplace to lure tech talent
IBM’s IT department is focused on empowering 400,000 IBMers with technologies that resemble tools they use in their consumer lives, including Macs and cloud applications such as Slack and Box.
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10 signs your CRM system needs an overhaul
Poor data quality, broken add-ons, and ineffective integrations are just a few of the tell-tale signs that you may need to refresh your CRM system — or scrap it altogether and start anew.Feature
10 tips for getting started with machine learning
Artificial intelligence and machine learning can yield game-changing solutions for enterprises. Here’s what senior IT leaders need to know to launch and maintain a successful machine learning strategy.Transformation Nation
Governance, selective investment drive HMSHost’s multichannel digital journey
Several factors have accelerated HMSHost’s agility and relevance to consumers, including digital governance strategy and key investments in technology infrastructure.rn
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A practical guide to machine learning in business
Machine learning is poised to have a profound impact on your business but the hype is sowing confusion. Here’s a clear-eyed look at what machine learning is and how it can be used today.
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How Mastercard is preparing for contextual commerce
Your everyday devices will one day pay for goods and services themselves. Ed McLaughlin is fueling the payment processing platform to make this happen.
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Cloud ERP: The rising alternative to hosting your own
CIOs faced with brittle on-premises ERP systems and the desire to free up valuable IT resources are increasingly looking to the cloud as a reliable, scalable solution for their ERP needs.
Driving Digital Transformation
4 keys to aligning executives on digital strategy and priorities
Four key things CIOs should do this planning season to secure digital investments.
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Project management: 7 steps to on-time, on-budget, goal-based delivery
Project managers who follow these seven high-level project management tips will achieve on-time, on-budget, goal-focused delivery of high-profile projects, thereby increasing their project success rates and career prospects.Feature
10 signs you’re ready for AI — but might not succeed
Not every problem can be solved by machine learning, and not every company is poised to apply AI. Here’s how to know whether your IT organization is ready to reap the benefits of artificial intelligence.
Competing in a Digital First World
Bimodal transformation: Avoiding five common pitfalls to success
A bimodal transformation approach can instill innovation, provide a less-risky way to experiment, and encourage change. But it's critical that companies stay focused on a well-defined project plan and keep sight of any potential impediments to success.
SETHspeak
The CIO's data dilemma: The paradox of plenty?
"Data rich but information poor" is how many business stakeholders describe their organizations. They increasingly challenge CIOs to change the status quo, leveraging some of the data/analytics buzzwords and success stories they are constantly bombarded with. What should a data strategy look like in the "post big data era"?rn
Financial Services IT Goes Digital
What to make of enterprise IT in a digital world?
The monopoly of enterprise IT on corporate technology spending is diminishing, but not necessarily for the right reasons.
Think, Change, Achieve
Get your priorities straight before you start applying artificial intelligence in your business solutions
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to put you ahead of your peers in the industry. However, like with many opportunities, you have got to be keen at doing the right things in the right order.Feature
10 early warning signs of ERP disaster
Enterprise resource planning systems reap business efficiency by tying together disparate systems and services. But an ERP implementation can quickly unravel into disaster if you don’t heed these early warning signs.
Healthcare Technology Trends
The incredible, shrinking shelf life of healthcare technology strategy
A perfect storm of policy uncertainty, marketplace transformation, and technology evolution has made strategic planning increasingly difficult for CIOs.rn
Building IT Relationships
Defeating the SAP project optimism Death Star
Studies have shown roughly 65% of large IT-enabled projects go over budget, and there is evidence to support that 25% of these projects will end up going 50% over plan. What went wrong?-
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