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How Celanese makes people central to its digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Celanese operates more than 50 large manufacturing plants across 27 countries, and has made several significant acquisitions in recent years, including Dupont’s $11 billion mobility and materials (M&M) business. We decided that change, agility, and value would be key to put people at the center of the transformation.

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Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, my change management motto is, “Humans prefer the familiar to the comfortable and the comfortable to the better.” At a time when technology innovation cycles are getting shorter, we will struggle to keep pace if we have to navigate around legacy systems that act as barriers to speed and agility.

Agile 277
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What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one

CIO Business Intelligence

Among the recent trends impacting IT are the heavy shift into the cloud, the emergence of hybrid work, increased reliance on mobility, growing use of artificial intelligence, and ongoing efforts to build digital businesses.

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The ‘Great IT Rebrand’: Restructuring IT for business success

CIO Business Intelligence

Along with fostering tighter business alignment, technology leaders are instituting other types of organizational change to meet the needs of the moment. Oversight of cybersecurity is another area routinely earmarked for change as technology continues to permeate the enterprise fabric.

Insurance 336
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Massive modernization: Tips for overhauling IT at scale

CIO Business Intelligence

We knew we needed to modernize our legacy systems to support the agility, scalability, and efficiency needed to stay ahead, Maresca says. This overhaul streamlined finance, procurement, and inventory management while introducing automation to reduce manual tasks in areas such as vendor invoice matching and cash reconciliation.

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Building a vision for real-time artificial intelligence

CIO Business Intelligence

As real-time becomes pervasive across the organization, several questions begin to arise: How are cross-functional teams enabled to support the speed of change, agility, and quality of data for real-time AI, as ML models evolve? How well these teams work together will determine the speed they deliver real-time AI solutions.

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Rebranding IT for the modernized IT mission

CIO Business Intelligence

After all, many C-suite leaders and employees have an outdated impression of what IT departments do today, which may undermine the CIO’s digital transformation , change management, and other strategic objectives. “We Nothing will ever change without lighting a little bit of a match under someone’s feet.”