Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Our organization has gone to great lengths to become Agile, and we are well on our journey, but there is friction between our org and those within the company who have not yet transitioned to Agile practices.” Agile teams feel bogged down and relevant […]. What Our Clients Tell Us All The Time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These outdated systems are not only costly to maintain but also hinder the integration of new technologies, agility, and business value delivery. Change management strategies, including clear communication and incentives, helped overcome resistance and drive adoption.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

That means exploring the strategic options for cloud adoption, understanding the importance of financial operations (FinOps) as it relates to cloud, the difference between a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) versus a Cloud Business Office (CBO) approach and the debate between centralized and federated FinOps. Optimization and rightsizing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. Investment in training and change management is critical to the success. The effectiveness of the cloud CoE comes into play in this phase.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2024

Companies expect a lot from their CIOs: integral knowledge of the business, visible financial results, and agility, as well as the ability to manage change, actively collaborate with business leaders, and explain IT in plain English. It’s a tall order that requires a broad spectrum of skills.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

Pre-pandemic, high-performance teams were co-located, multidisciplinary, self-organizing, agile, and data-driven. High performance back then generally focused on delivery — a contrast to previous generations of IT where business and IT alignment was an issue, and teams struggled to deliver with waterfall project management practices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2025

As Jyothirlatha, CTO of Godrej Capital tells us, Being a pandemic-born NBFC (non-banking financial company), a technology-first approach helps us drive business growth. Since technology evolves rapidly, ensuring seamless adoption while keeping business teams aligned requires continuous change management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Imagine you’re a client technologist of the athletics department, and you’re looking for financial information for athletics,” he says. The best approach, he adds, is to give them a platform that’s useful, but also mitigates risk on a large scale while providing IT with visibility. You shouldn’t have to come to IT to ask for those reports.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2023

These digital trailblazers , as I call them, are vital for digital transformation success, as they can be delegated leadership responsibilities such as the planning, execution, and change management of your digital initiatives. Information security specialists guide agile teams on shift-left security practices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Because of this, IT leaders must take a proactive approach to change management , communicating the benefits of digital transformation and providing support and training to employees. Be realistic about the costs of digital transformation and allocate sufficient human capital and financial capital to achieve your goals.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Adopting Agile Development - The role of the CIO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Cloud software engineer Cloud software engineers are tasked with developing and maintaining software applications that run on cloud platforms, ensuring they are built to be scalable, reliable, and agile. Role growth: 19% of companies have added cloud software engineer roles as part of their cloud investments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 29, 2024

Primed by a rotational program that cycled through varied assignments to build a technology-plus-business foundation, Brown was able to develop a robust process orientation in addition to skills in communications, large-scale change management, even a Master Black Belt Six Sigma certification.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2024

Call it survival instincts: Risks that can disrupt an organization from staying true to its mission and accomplishing its goals must constantly be surfaced, assessed, and either mitigated or managed. Are agile teams overly stressed with too many priorities? Is the organization transforming fast enough?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2025

We knew we needed to modernize our legacy systems to support the agility, scalability, and efficiency needed to stay ahead, Maresca says. Another big challenge was change management , especially considering the scale of the transformation, Maresca says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 26, 2023

Closing phase: To complete a project, project managers must close all phases and procurements, settle budgets, hand over deliverables, conduct project post-mortems and reports, and return personnel to the resource pool Project management skills Effective project managers need more than technical know-how.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. efficiency, agility, cost savings) as well as any performance characteristics that will help determine whether it is a good candidate for cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2024

To get that hand in directing business strategy, Lieberman created a base with “the right people and the right roadmap, [as well as] the right processes and technology to ensure agility and transparency.” Principal Financial Group CIO Kathy Kay takes a similar approach to Lieberman’s.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 25, 2024

Recognize the significant financial and temporal investment involved in employing IT consultants,” Bressler says. Ensure adaptability and agility: New skills and adjustments A consultant should be open to learning new skills and technologies to meet the needs of clients. It’s also important in the early stages to consider costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2022

“Now more than ever, having a strong partnership between HR and the CIO is critical, because the demand for talented employees is so high,” says Kathy Kay, CIO at global financial investment management and insurance company Principal Financial Group. Kathy Kay, senior vice president and CIO, Principal Financial Group.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2023

We were incredibly agile, made decisions quickly, had support from the top, and everybody bought into what we were trying to achieve. The second project leverages natural language processing (NLP) enabled chatbots to digitize customer experience around some of their financial services products. It was incredibly successful.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2024

For example, McKinsey suggests five metrics for digital CEOs , including the financial return on digital investments, the percentage of leaders’ incentives linked to digital, and the percentage of the annual tech budget spent on bold digital initiatives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

That’s had its advantages: “We’ve been able to leverage these platforms to do so much, more rapidly, and with much more agility than we would have if we had taken the more brownfield approach,” he says. That was the case with the migration of quote-to-cash and financials data from IBM’s legacy SAP system to Kyndryl’s greenfield instance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 20, 2022

Vipin Gupta, chief innovation and digital officer, Toyota Financial Services. Toyota Financial Services. Central to its internal upskilling efforts is the TFS Academy, an enterprisewide learning capability that covers everything from agility workshops to data and analytics as well as strategy and change management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

Modern approaches to insurance and changes in customer expectations mean that the insurance business model looks very different than it used to. This change also demands a new business strategy in order to enable the flexibility and agility needed to meet the demands of increasingly tech-savvy and time-sensitive customers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Established in 1996, South Africa’s Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has acted as a trusted anti-corruption, forensic investigation, and litigation agency to recover financial losses and correct wrongdoing. Communication and change management makes a massive difference.” Something an entity like the SIU can’t afford.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

An IT-managed BI delivery model, Goris explains, requires a lot of effort and process, which wouldn’t work for some parts of the business. That’s because they feel it’s overly complex; there’s too much overhead, and they want to move faster and be more agile,” Goris says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 3, 2023

They enable greater efficiency and accuracy and error reduction, better decision making, better compliance and risk management, process optimisation and greater agility. Organisational change management (OCM): processes do not exist in isolation from organisational structures. These tools bring benefits beyond automation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

In fact, according to Samsara’s State of Connected Operations Report , connected operations leaders who reported the highest level of digital maturity were 6x more likely to exceed their financial goals by 25% or more. This includes everything from effective change management and communication to adoption analysis after the fact.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The greatest barrier to innovation is competing priorities and lack of time to innovate, observes Santhosh Keshavan, executive vice president and CIO of financial and insurance services firm Voya. Most of my leadership was very ready and open for change. That starts to get people familiar with the agile model.”.

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Fountainhead

AUGUST 30, 2011

Offering financial transparency. Another way of putting it: Now that the technology is posing less of a problem to design and manage, more time is being spent working with EMCs Lines-of-Business to cater to their needs and enhance their business agility. And finally, the need for Change Management. Green IT. (43).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

Cloud has become a key enabler for organizations to develop, grow and compete in today’s marketplace and can bring speed, agility, resilience and visibility. Enterprise transformation demands change management and navigating skillsets so employees can operate with confidence and evolve with the business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It was easier to do with a strong financial benefit, for sure.” Instead, he says, he’ll stick with the bring-your-own license model for the next three to five years while he extracts the cost, operations, and agility benefits of moving to a hyperscaler. There was a lot of change management, getting them to agree,” he says.

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SAP Data Center Cloud Energy 246

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Regardless of the actual mechanism involved, the key point is that technology initiatives are so key to a company’s success that CIOs and CTOS increasingly are offered financial rewards to stick around to see the transformation through,” Heller says. It typically is not an increase in base compensation, she adds.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Critical aspects of business process redesign and organizational change management will be covered as well. Cloud computing strategies are completely changing the way entire industries are competing. Critical aspects of business process redesign and organizational change management will be covered as well.

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Cloud Training Enterprise Enterprise 113

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2023

And when performed strategically in succession as Mahon has done at Werner, such quick wins can lead to much larger business transformation over time — with less big-bang disruption and change management thanks to measurable proof of enhancement along the way.

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