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Six steps to creating a successful IT strategy: A guide for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Step 2: Understanding competitors Competitive analysis IT leaders must understand the competitive landscape to position their organization for success. By staying ahead of market trends, the organization remains agile, adaptable, and ready to outperform rivals.

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Banks bet on AI to deliver digital efficiencies

CIO Business Intelligence

As the study’s authors explain, these results underline a clear trend toward more personalized services, data-driven decision-making, and agile processes. According to the study, the biggest focus in the next three years will be on AI-supported data analysis, followed by the use of gen AI for internal use.

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What is data architecture? A framework to manage data

CIO Business Intelligence

Shared data assets, such as product catalogs, fiscal calendar dimensions, and KPI definitions, require a common vocabulary to help avoid disputes during analysis. Optimize data flows for agility. Limit the times data must be moved to reduce cost, increase data freshness, and optimize enterprise agility. Curate the data.

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12 tips for achieving IT agility in the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

Pre-COVID, agility became an aspiration and rallying cry for organizations seeking to embrace emerging technologies and pursue technology-enabled innovation, often to stave off digital disruption in their industries. This goes beyond implementing agile methodology. Balance control with agility. Think a step ahead.

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Why Data Science, DataOps, and Data Governance need Agile Methodologies

Social, Agile and Transformation

Data science requires questions, hypotheses, discovery, analysis, and recalibration. While the words I'm using to describe a data science are different than software development, the process and mindset are very applicable to agile methodologies. . It's called science for a reason.

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IBM: 78% of mainframe shops are piloting, operating AI apps

Network World

This can be achieved by equipping developers with gen AI-assisted tools that accelerate application discovery, analysis, and modernization; improving operational functions with smart aids and next-generation chatbot assistants; and leveraging AI for in-transaction insights to enhance business use cases,” Tarquinio wrote. “In

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SAFe certification: launch your Scaled Agile Framework career

CIO Business Intelligence

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

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