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Organizing around the value stream
When working on multiple projects at once, it is hard to make good progress. If we organize around the value stream, then we can help the work to flow through our system.
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6 tips to avoid automation disaster
If your automated DevOps pipeline or robotic process automation is flawed, it can spawn endless headaches, as these hard-learned real-world lessons attest.
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Security vs. innovation: IT's trickiest balancing act
An innovative initiative is only as successful as it is secure. Here’s how CIOs are balancing risk-taking with risk aversion.
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Top IT spending priorities for 2020
From data analytics to cybersecurity to customer experience, here’s where CIOs will direct their IT budgets this year.
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7 IT restructuring mistakes to avoid
To tackle digital initiatives, IT leaders are having to rethink and reorganize how work gets done. But driving change is about much more than just overhauling org charts and business processes.
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How IT can improve the employee experience
Employee experience is as vital as customer experience — but remains an IT afterthought. Here’s how to shift your focus and provide employees with the internal IT experience they deserve.
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7 tech buzzwords to cancel in 2020
Tech is an industry all too often fueled by hype, but some CIOs are fed up. Here IT leaders from retail, health care, consulting and other sectors discuss tech catch-all jargon they’d like to see dumped.
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20 IT resolutions for 2020
The new decade finds technology changing faster than ever. IT leaders must balance a wide array of priorities in developing a strategic agenda that can keep up.
IDG TECHtalk Voices
CIOs discuss their top priorities for 2020
At the start of this new year, CIOs are focusing on more than just technological innovations and the latest greatest app or gadget to bring into their organization. They’re turning big picture, identifying ways to seamlessly embed technology into the company culture and achieve company growth goals.
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8 tips for reducing technical debt (without killing operations)
Cutting corners is all well and good until a development project hurtles into a reliability and financial black hole. Here’s how to avoid the perils of technical debt.
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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2020
From skills shortages to privacy concerns, tech execs will need to overcome a number of hurdles along their digital journeys this year.
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Target's new tech operating model hits the mark
CIO Mike McNamara’s bold bet on product management, agile, DevOps and reskilling has helped turn around the big box chain.
The Adaptive CIO
Migrating ERP to the cloud
Vendors are certainly pushing for this application modernization. But where are CIOs on this and how can they make it a business success?
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What is a technology roadmap? A plan for managing digital transformation
With technology comes constant change — and that’s why it is more important than ever to have a solid technology roadmap to help plan for your company’s future.
From Business Strategies to Successful IT Delivery
8 common business design and architecture models
Make more sense of your enterprise architecture practice by relating it to any of 8 common business design methodologies.
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Recession-proof IT: How to survive and thrive through any economy
Leading authorities advise CIOs to have plans in place in advance of a possible downturn — and the best approaches and strategies are highly beneficial in good economic times as well.
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Top 5 strategic priorities for CIOs in 2020
IT leaders from health-care, retail and tech sectors share their strategic priorities for 2020. Hint: Analytics, automation and cloud play big roles in CIOs’ roadmaps.
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Keys to a successful flexible IT staffing strategy
With specialized skills in short supply, CIOs are increasingly turning to contingent workers to supplement in-house talent. Here’s how to ensure your workforce mix is on target and productive.
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7 ways to position IT for success in 2020
Look out, here comes tomorrow. Is your IT organization prepared to face the new year's opportunities and challenges?
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Anticipatory IT: Your strategy for staving off digital disruption
Anticipating future opportunities based on hard and soft trends is crucial for CIOs seeking to avoid disruption. Does your organization have what it takes to commit to an ‘anticipatory IT’ strategy?
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What is citizen development? The CIO’s solution to shadow IT
Users are increasingly creating tools to solve business problems. Fortunately, CIOs have help in the form of low- and no-code platforms that enable non-coders to build applications — guardrails included.
Analysis
10 future trends and how CIOs can keep ahead in 2020
After years of digital disruption and uncertainty, the future enterprise is finally coming into focus. Here's a look at what's ahead for IT organizations.
The Business of Data
5 factors that will shape data-driven innovation in 2020
The coming year promises new challenges and opportunities for companies building data-driven services.
The Next Generation of Health IT
How analytics help justify the role of the CIO
CIOs require unified intelligence for data-driven insights leading to actionable organizational decision making.
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IT-business alignment in the digital age
The most effective IT models are tightly aligned with desired business outcomes. Getting there may require a new IT operating model.
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5 ways IT still fails its business users
Mastering customer experience is the drumbeat of digital transformation today. But too often enterprises pursue that while neglecting employee experience to their peril.
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Blockchain for business: 5 promising pilots
Big brands in financial services, logistics and other sectors are betting on blockchain’s potential to facilitate transactions and verify provenance of products.
The Business of Data
What exactly is a data-driven organization?
Understanding what makes a data-driven business is essential for any company wishing to remain relevant over the next decade.
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7 tips for improving IT-marketing collaboration
A strong relationship between IT and marketing correlates with improved business growth. Here’s how to bury past frictions and build a better business-focused, cross-functional team.
Opinion
IT-as-a-business is dead. Long live BusOps
Thanks to digital transformation, technology is embedded in every business process and practice your company relies on. It’s time to take a tip from DevOps, and rethink the business-IT divide.
The Tech Mindset
5 practical ways your organization can benefit from DevSecOps
Behind the buzzword, is there a real need of and value for organizations in exploring DevSecOps? It’s important to understand why DevSecOps matters in this day and age of security breaches and what the pragmatic benefits are for your organization.
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The customer journey map: A new playbook CIOs must master
CIOs driving digital business strategy must master customer experience. That means working with marketing on a critical initiative: the customer journey map.
Truth from the Trenches
Information technology – what is it good for?
Technology fads come and go over time but the fundamental business benefits that IT can deliver remain the same. Any technology initiative that can produce dramatic improvements in process automation, data democratization or ease of use will materially improve the business credibility of your company’s IT team and likely enhance the career prospects of its leaders.
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10 IT-business collaboration mistakes to avoid
Ignoring conflict, missing out on post-mortems, failing to prioritize trust — here’s what is holding you back when co-creating and collaborating with business colleagues.
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The reverse pitch: Enlisting startups to hone innovation
Aflac, Bayer and Bosch are among a growing number of enterprises leveraging the ‘reverse pitch,’ in which companies pose business challenges they will pay winning startups to solve.
Decoding IT for Business
Bad beginnings have bad endings
If you get off to a bad start on a project, you may never be able to recover.
The Digital CIO
To kick-start AI projects, think "minimum viable intelligence"
AI systems don't need to be perfect to be put into production. They just need to be better than humans.
The Digital Workplace
Shift your focus from technology acquisition to real solutions and outcomes
Enterprise buyers don't just want technology…they're looking for business solutions.
Driving Digital Transformation
5 technical capabilities required in modern enterprise data strategies
Becoming data-driven requires an ongoing commitment to excellence. It's not simple, but it shouldn't be daunting, either.
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6 strategies for avoiding cloud vendor lock-in
A credible threat of defection can help you leverage competitive pricing opportunities and escape long-term relationships gone bad.
Square One
The 5 ways strategic partnerships fuel uncommon growth
Tangible ways a strategic partnership channel can drive otherwise unrealized growth.
Square One
Strategic partnership: A magic bullet for enterprise innovation
Strategic partnerships have emerged as an opportunity to help enterprise businesses scale. Make sure your organization doesn’t get stuck on the sidelines!
Transforming Engineering
Big business: You, too, can growth hack
Big businesses have a lot of potential to unlock and can be scrappy to great effect if they push traditional approaches aside. The key is to always keep rethinking and continue reinventing.
Divergent CIO
Have you dusted off your incident response plan?
As security incidents are more prevalent these days, we are seeing organizations that aren't sufficiently prepared because their incident response plan was outdated or non-existent.Feature
IT’s latest survival skill: Embracing risk
In today’s digital business world, IT has to stop playing it safe, as you can’t innovate without taking some risks. Still most IT professionals remain deeply risk-averse.
Square One
Redefining omnichannel: The challenge for technology leaders
For technology leaders, now is the time to invest in the right technology to pave the way for omnichannel success.
The Adaptive CIO
Are you ready to become a digital technology leader?
In “Designed for Digital," which will be released next week, the authors suggest that winning at digital requires more than a mastery of social, mobile, analytics, cloud and IoT. It requires the willingness to experiment and to create new digital value propositions.
Future Forward
The purpose of a corporation: sustainability
Reconsidering the fundamental driver of corporate valuations is perhaps too much to expect in the short term, but it is a useful way to frame the question of how sustainability can be built into decision-making.
The Tech Nest
Delivering results through the magic of experimentation
Achieving the desired results for your innovation practice starts with identifying business-driven opportunities; exploring disruptive technology in ways that are fast, cheap, and delight your audience; and focusing momentum on the scope of work, the location of your innovation practice, and the process for engaging your business partners.
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What is process improvement? A business methodology for efficiency and productivity
A broken business process can cost your business time and money. But pinpointing exactly where a process breaks down — and where it can be improved — isn’t an exact science.
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