CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. And it’s never too late for CIOs to reassess their cloud strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2022

Whenever an organization implements a new process, updates an existing process, deploys new technology, or fine-tunes services, its leaders must be mindful that even a simple change to a single process can start a domino effect, introducing issues in a range of other processes that must also be addressed. AIM Change Management Certification.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

Here veteran IT leaders and advisers offer eight strategies to speed up IT modernization. Apply agile principles for quick wins Although legacy tech can be monolithic, there’s no reason that the approach to their modernization should be clunky all-or-nothing propositions.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Many professionals transition to product management from various fields like DevOps, data science, and marketing. This role requires new skills in market research, stakeholder engagement, and change management.

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Future of CIO

AUGUST 2, 2017

Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of changes, and the purpose of change. Change Management is no longer just a few business initiatives, but an ongoing digital capability which enables the strategy implementation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This is true whether it’s an outdated system that’s no longer vendor-supported or infrastructure that doesn’t align with a cloud-first strategy, says Carrie Rasmussen, CIO at human resources software and services firm Dayforce. A first step, Rasmussen says, is ensuring that existing tools are delivering maximum value.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 9, 2013

By Bob Gourley Process Live is part of Software AG Live, a cloud-based suite unifying process improvement, IT portfolio management, agile application development and application integration. Process Live is built on ARIS technology which has shaped the business process management discipline over the last 20 years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2023

Those principles, along with lessons learned during recent years, have helped Pfeiffer sharpen her tech strategy for supporting hybrid work in 2023. Though we have invested significantly in building a culture of agility within the organization, I think there is more to our journey. Still, he says there’s room for improvement.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MAY 8, 2013

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 Social, Agile, Transformation Pages.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

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. This required a major mindset change for our team, so we put people at the center of the strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They understand that their strategies, capabilities, resources, and management systems should be configured to support the enterprise’s overarching purpose and goals. Recognize IT and business are inseparable IT and business strategies are now fully intertwined, observes Jay Upchurch, EVP and CIO at analytics vendor SAS.

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Future of CIO

AUGUST 9, 2015

However, more than two-thirds of Change Management effort fail to achieve the business expectation. When would you communicate the change imperative to your employees and how would you ensure their buy-in to this new directive? Ownership and accountability of change management lie in the capable hands of the executive team.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By focusing on technology, CIOs can deliver transitionary results, such as improving infrastructure agility by migrating to the cloud or improving user experiences by upgrading legacy systems to SaaS. There’s often ambition to address all or most problems, but that can leave the system user behind.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Sergey Kastukevich, deputy CTO of iGaming software development company SoftSwiss, says most organizations would like more flexibility in the decision-making processes, and IT needs to implement more agile processes that help business leaders respond to evolving circumstances.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Their strategy delivers effective and relevant training to IT professionals via three delivery options - Live Webinars, Recorded Webinars and In-person Seminars. Attendees will learn proven tools and techniques for designing and executing an effective cloud transition strategy. Do you even have a cloud service strategy?

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 1, 2024

Modern Application Development Services Defined Clients want more autonomy to better control their own innovation and development capabilities to build modern and up-to-date custom applications.

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Eric D. Brown

APRIL 6, 2015

They key for ensuring a successful transformation of any kind is proper change management. Whether that transformation is a digital transformation or the ‘next’ transformation to come along, if you can’t implement a well managed and properly planned change management project, your transformation project will fail.

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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

JULY 31, 2023

They note, too, that CIOs — being top technologists within their organizations — will be running point on those concerns as companies establish their gen AI strategies. Here’s a rundown of the top 20 issues shaping gen AI strategies today. Douglas Merrill, a partner at management consulting firm McKinsey & Co.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Here, we explore the key factors impeding IT modernization and provide recommendations to overcome them (with real-world illustrations of strategies). These outdated systems are not only costly to maintain but also hinder the integration of new technologies, agility, and business value delivery.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2023

A clear vision for executing a real-time AI strategy is a critical step to align executives and line-of-business leaders on how real-time AI will increase business value for the organization. How is data, process, and model drift managed for reliability? Real-time AI is a science project until benefits to the business are realized.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 30, 2018

After three years leading technology strategy and market development for Microsoft Azure and Equinix, what brought me back were three things: The value […].

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Strategy Microsoft Development Change Management 186

Forrester IT

MARCH 2, 2021

An innovative management culture provides a strong purpose, creates diverse and cross-functional teams, focuses on the customer as the center of business activity, and embraces transparent communication with the organization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. Effective change management enables businesses to overcome resistance, streamline processes, and minimize negative impacts during the transition.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

For instance, if you oversee security teams, you may want to consider the security-focused certifications, whereas if you manage an agile team, then project management and agile-focused certifications may be a better fit.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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.

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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. It requires a different mindset, as well as an agile, ready-to-experiment workforce that is change-savvy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2023

It is driven by changes in customer expectations, opportunities to evolve employee experiences, and building differentiating capabilities with data, analytics, and artificial intelligence — all of which have no clear end point, nor are exclusively technology-focused.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2024

These objectives overlap and are interdependent, but separating them in this way highlights the three steps CIOs should take to ensure their KPI strategies align with their three objectives. The art is asking the right questions and connecting experience metrics to the digital strategy and prioritized initiatives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

That’s because their approach is often not agile enough to keep pace with today’s evolving business landscape. Making ITSM better than ever Overcoming these challenges is more than just making temporary fixes; it’s also changing the culture around how IT services are being managed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 11, 2024

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.”

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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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Future of CIO

APRIL 3, 2019

A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change lifecycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and upgoing change continuum. Here are three aspects of Change Management. How should you measure change readiness and evaluate change outcome?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2024

“A truly business-driven IT team shouldn’t just be aligned with business strategy, it should have a seat at the leadership table, have a hand in directing business strategy, and be brought in on any major transformational initiatives from the get-go.” But now we’re integral to the strategy as it’s being created.

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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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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Without action, a company’s strategies and goals remain unfulfilled, regardless of how well-conceived they might be. Increased Agility : The combination of AIC allows companies to be more agile. Be prepared to adjust your strategies if certain approaches aren’t working as well as expected.

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