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6 ways you’re failing at change management

CIO Business Intelligence

Its up to IT leaders to ensure the changes their digital initiatives bring to business workflows are absorbed and acted upon by the users impacted by them. Too often, however, change management is treated as an afterthought, observes Munir Hafez, senior vice president and CIO at consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion.

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Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards. The sponsor’s primary responsibility is to secure funding and justify the business value of the investment.

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7 signs it’s time to modernize your IT systems

CIO Business Intelligence

On the other hand, there are also many cases of enterprises hanging onto obsolete systems that have long-since exceeded their original ROI. Often, technical leaders don’t devote sufficient time to communication, change management, and stakeholder management,” he observes.

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10 top priorities for CIOs in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

AI, once viewed as a novel innovation, is now mainstream, impacting just about facet of the enterprise. Technology investments, such as in generative AI, are a priority in addressing the need to meet rising expectations while also driving operational agility and resilience. The reality is that the transition is a long-term endeavor.

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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO Business Intelligence

Instead of succumbing to the pressure, CIOs should consider collaborative approaches: Empower and inspire agile teams by avoiding rigid delivery roadmaps, highlighting what performance improvement areas are worth focusing on, and giving teams time to reset after major releases.

Agile 352
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How Celanese makes people central to its digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Sameer Purao, who joined Celanese as CIO and CDO in 2021, is keeping the team and company focused by making change management a core competency of his team, and ensuring a focus on value, agility, and purpose. We decided that change, agility, and value would be key to put people at the center of the transformation.

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7 types of tech debt that could cripple your business

CIO Business Intelligence

Accenture reports that the top three sources of technical debt are enterprise applications, AI, and enterprise architecture. What CIOs can do: Avoid and reduce data debt by incorporating data governance and analytics responsibilities in agile data teams , implementing data observability , and developing data quality metrics.