IT Strategy
Future Forward
Corporate purchasing – an unexpected way to fight climate change
Corporations are ultimately going to have to adopt green practices to their entire business or face challenges either from competitors, consumer demand or both.
Navigating the Digital Universe
Lack of cybersecurity is the biggest economic threat to the world over the next decade, CEOs say
As digital transformation continues apace, CEOs see cybersecurity as the number one threat to the global economy in the next decade.
Dangerous Thinking
Data privacy is the new strategic differentiator
Pioneering corporations have an estimated nine to 18 months to “compete on data privacy” before it becomes table stakes.
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10 IT modernization mistakes to avoid
Modernizing IT takes more than just replacing old tech with newer models. It requires a nuanced strategy that considers business needs and objectives alongside technical capabilities.
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What is ITSM? Managing IT to serve business needs
IT service management (ITSM) is a set of policies, processes and procedures that helps businesses build structure around the lifecycle of IT services, from creation to management and upkeep.
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Summer 2019: Digital leaders level up
While some companies flirt with digital transformation, experimenting with one-off projects, others make it a key pillar of their enterprise business strategies. Read on to see how some 2019 CIO 100 award-winning organizations are successfully scaling digital innovation.
CDO at the Center
Are you blinded by the promise of AI?
While many businesses are fueled by their ambition to implement AI initiatives, few understand how it can work for their businesses. How do we keep our AI ambitions in line with the business needs of our organization?
From Business Strategies to Successful IT Delivery
Enterprise architecture short- and long-term wins
As they incorporate business architecture into their practice, enterprise architects are becoming essential contributors to the success of their organization.
The Adaptive CIO
Cleaning up the legacy mess so the business can innovate
Business innovation doesn’t come from cleaning up the mess common to many legacy systems. However, not fixing the mess can certainly slow or limit the ability to innovate.
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10 customer experience strategies IT should target next
CIO are increasingly being asked to help attract, manage and support customers. These technologies and practices can help enhance your company’s CX and fuel revenue for your digital transformation.
Taming Enterprise Complexity
It’s all about the data
Gaining control of an enterprise’s data is a key element in taming enterprise complexity. But control without understanding is a recipe for trouble. Understanding data is an obligation of every enterprise architect.
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10 signs outdated IT systems are killing your business
When an IT asset turns into a business liability, an update or replacement is imperative. Here's how to know it's time to take action.
Driving Digital Transformation
5 outdated technology practices that doom digital transformations
What IT terms and concepts are dated – and what ideas are replacing them? More importantly, how do these outdated concepts doom and derail digital transformation programs?
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Business requirements: Tracing project deliverables to business goals
Any successfully executed IT project is guided by pre-defined business requirements. Here’s how to ensure project deliverables and resource allocation trace back to business needs.
I’ve Been Thinking – So Should You
What makes – and keeps – your company relevant?
Your customers, both external and internal, are asking: Why you? Why now? What makes you relevant? More important, they will ask the same question every day into the future. Remaining relevant is your biggest challenge for long-term success. Find out what it means and how you accomplish it.
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AI’s top use cases today
Enterprises are undertaking AI pilots and putting artificial intelligence into production. Here’s where leading organizations are placing their bets — and seeing early results.
The Truth Will Out
Can private online communities drive corporate cultural change?
“Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities of tomorrow,” said Walt Disney. We are in the 4th Industrial Revolution, able to invent what our imagination dreams up. But it takes communities working together to achieve what may seem impossible, unsustainable goals. AI/ML will be able to transform society through online, tribal collaboration.
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What is Kaizen? A business strategy focused on improvement
Kaizen offers a more holistic approach than most IT frameworks in that it aims to improve everything in your organization from people to processes to products.
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Anatomy of an enterprise-scale AI strategy
Looking to move beyond point solutions and proofs of concept? Here’s what it takes to develop to a holistic AI strategy honed for business results.
Building IT Relationships
Proven levers to reduce hardware and software maintenance
7 short-term actions you can take now to produce meaningful in-year reductions to your budget.
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What is NoOps? The quest for fully automated IT operations
Automation has IT leaders eyeing the possibility of environments with no hands-on operations work. But this evolution of DevOps may be more pipedream than practical reality.
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How to better integrate IT security and IT strategy
Organizations see a future in which IT security is deeply woven into their overall IT strategy. Here’s how they plan to get there.
Square One
Building a platform can help you and your customers innovate
A platform will also pay dividends in the long run. Here’s how…
Straight Talk from a CIO’s Perspective
What does digital transformation really mean?
We can’t seem to go a day without seeing or hearing the term digital transformation. But what does the term really mean? What happened to start this paradigm shift in the way people and companies interact with technology? And, more importantly, where is it going?
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3 fundamentals for supercharging your data strategy
Modern enterprises are swimming in data. How can they turn that data into a business asset and win buy-in from the organization? It takes a bold strategy and attention to the fundamentals, experts say.
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IT ROI: 10 tips for selling (and proving) the value of IT
The digital era has placed greater scrutiny on delivering business value — and changed the equation for establishing and evaluating an IT project’s return on investment.
Building a Data-Driven Culture
Building a data-driven culture for a sustainable tomorrow
How Brett Jenks and Rare built a global, data-driven culture to inspire community-led change and protect the most vulnerable ecosystems around the world.The Business of Data
5 ways to kick-start your platform strategy
Data-driven business models often rely on building platforms that bring users and suppliers together in mutually beneficial ways. However, attracting your first customers to a platform that has little to offer can be a stumbling block for many companies.
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7 tips for getting out of a bad vendor contract
When a seemingly sweet deal turns sour, it's time to prepare an exit strategy. Here’s how to preserve essential business operations, your vendor relationship and your job.
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RPA is poised for a big business break-out
Robotic process automation is driving efficiency at enterprises such as State Auto, Berry Appleman & Leiden, American Fidelity Assurance and other companies.
I’ve Been Thinking – So Should You
All change isn’t the same
Change is change, right? Not exactly. The interaction of speed and predictability make your leadership role more important than ever. Read on to find out how change is changing and how you can help your team flourish in its face.
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IT as a product: Secrets of successful launches
To improve efficiency and user outcomes, organizations are jettisoning IT projects in favor of an agile, product-based approach to delivery IT services. IT leaders share their hard-earned tips on making it work.
Navigating the Digital Universe
Security and the boardroom: From advantage to imperative
Detecting and mitigating cyber threats is getting tougher. A quarter of organization reports greater financial damages.
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What is vendor management? The key to productive vendor partnerships
Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership.
The Adaptive CIO
Continuous improvement – now more than ever
In an era of digital disruption, IT organizations need to move faster. Given this, should CIOs be active enablers of continuous improvement?
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7 ways to make IT operations more efficient
Chances are your enterprise's IT operations could use some improvement. Here are tips for getting key services on the fast track to higher performance and cost savings.
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What is a business relationship manager? A key role for bridging the business-IT divide
Business relationship managers help integrate IT into the organization by fostering inter-departmental communication and collaboration in service of business goals.
The Tech Exec’s Advisor
How product development drives competitive advantage in the digital age
Great technology doesn’t always win. Good thinkers fail to execute. Whether software is your product, or you need to enrich and amplify products and services digitally in order to compete at speed and scale, a strong product development capability will define the winners and losers in the digital age. Here are the five key ingredients to product development.
The Adaptive CIO
Process innovation
Where should CIOs be driving innovation? And how should they deliver on the promise of innovation?
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Cross-functional teams: A new strategy for business success
With business-IT collaboration key to digital transformation, forward-thinking IT leaders are breaking down silos to develop blended startup-like teams focused on key business initiatives.
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HPE CEO Antonio Neri rearchitects for the future
A year and a quarter into his tenure as HPE’s CEO, Antonio Neri reflects on his company’s storied past and the very human challenge of refocusing a $29 billion enterprise.
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Filling the digital transformation skills gap
Success in the digital era requires the right blend of business, IT and soft skills. IT leaders are rethinking their hiring and training strategies to truly transform.
CDO at the Center
Tech days of reckoning
Even for technology veterans, keeping pace with advancements is like chasing a moving train that will always be just a bit faster. Try as you may, you can never quite catch up and, if you stop trying, you will never catch up.
The Adaptive CIO
How can CIOs drive business innovation?
Innovation is typically situational, so CIOs need to be an authentic, reciprocal partners across the business to take advantage of opportunities.
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Restructuring IT for the digital age
IT leaders are remodeling IT and morphing culture to increase agility and emphasize customer centricity in the wake of digital business.
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Making the shift to a startup mentality
For enterprises seeking an innovative edge, a startup’s approach can reap dividends. But the road to change is challenging and not for every organization.
Taming Enterprise Complexity
Learning to harness complexity
Increasing complexity is part of the natural order. Instead of fighting it, we should learn to take advantage of it.
Driving Digital Transformation
CIOs remain cautious on AI experiments and investments
Recent surveys suggest CIOs are slow to invest in artificial intelligence, but lagging in too many cultural, data and technology prerequisites may put many their businesses at risk
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13 signs your software project may be doomed
Software projects can get derailed before you know it. Here are the subtle warning signs that your latest app dev initiative isn’t going quite as well as it seems.
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Adobe enlists AI to establish self-healing ITSM
Adobe has embraced AI, ML, NLP and other emerging technologies to improve the company’s service management — and pave the way to a self-healing ITSM framework.
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