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Stay-at-home Sales Propels Turkish Bathroom Pioneer into a Digital Transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

As a data-driven company, it had been conceptualizing the project for several years, allocating a budget and formulating a time plan in 2018. When we adopted it, it was 2002,” Güldür said. “We For two decades, the bathroom group had been reliant on SAP’s on-premise ERP Central Component (ECC) system. We were operating solely in Turkey.

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If An IT Project Wastes US$16B, Is It The CIO’s Fault?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Back in 2002 a decision was made to create a single unified database system that would store customer information. However, it is believed that the NHS’s particular problems stem from the original contracts signed before 2002. In the U.K. As you might well imagine, the amount of data associated with this task is huge.

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Sister-in-law founding team raises $1.6M to digitize transactions for weddings and events

GeekWire

The platform also works as a “wedding binder” with budgeting and other tools for couples managing their own event. They were working for Bridal Bliss, a successful wedding and event planning business that Nora started in 2002. Founder story: Rock Paper Coin co-founders Elizabeth Sheils and Nora Sheils are sisters-in-law.

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What is TOGAF? An enterprise architecture methodology for business

CIO Business Intelligence

TOGAF helps organize the development process through a systematic approach aimed at reducing errors, maintaining timelines, staying on budget, and aligning IT with business units to produce quality results. The Open Group developed TOGAF in 1995, and by 2016, 80% of Global 50 companies and 60% of Fortune 500 companies used the framework.

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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

In The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (IT Revolution Press, 2013 ) , Bill — an IT manager — takes over a critical project that’s over budget and behind schedule. The CEO demands that Bill deliver the project in 90 days. Both books talk about modern ways of delivering software,” says Kreslins Jr.

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Book Excerpt: How Microsoft leverages employee giving to build a culture of purpose

GeekWire

In 2002, Pamela Passman was appointed as the corporate vice president for corporate affairs in the law and corporate affairs group. First, she convinced then-CEO Steve Ballmer that the employee giving budget should be budgeted as an employee benefit within human resources rather than part of the philanthropic budget.

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The end of digital transformation and the rise of business model innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

Following the unprecedented proliferation of genAI with the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in 2002, executives were forced to reckon with the effectiveness of digital transformation to date. With the rise of generative AI, CEOs recognize an opportunity to shift from technology-led digital transformation to executive-led business reformation.

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