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Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

In the State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 , only 26% of respondents fully agreed that their enterprise architecture practice delivered strategic benefits, including improved agility, innovation opportunities, improved customer experiences, and faster time to market.

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Product-based IT: 6 key steps for making the switch

CIO Business Intelligence

Past shifts to agile methodologies helped as teams now had a product owne r to prioritize backlogs and adopted agile principles that empowered them to commit to a realistic amount of work. But many enterprises stopped their agile transformations at this layer.

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How employers can inspire software developers

CIO Business Intelligence

An ideal working environment for this is based on three pillars: autonomy, collaboration and agility. Transparency plays a key role here: Decisions must be documented and clearly communicated to ensure accountability. A specific document defines clear, measurable goals and ensures that the team works towards them.

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Is your EA just IT? Unlocking the value of enterprise architecture

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprise architecture (EA) has evolved beyond governance and documentation. With this foundation in place, EA can evolve from governance and documentation to driving real business impact. At this stage, EA plays a key role in digital transformation initiatives, enabling business agility, cost optimization and faster time-to-market.

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Close Brothers unlocks RPA with Document Understanding

CIO Business Intelligence

But Stephen Durnin, the company’s head of operational excellence and automation, says the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic thrust automation around unstructured input, like email and documents, into the spotlight. “We This was exacerbated by errors or missing information in documents provided by customers, leading to additional work downstream. “We

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies. I recently moderated Adaptavist’s “Agile Back to Basics” roundtable, which included three authors of the Agile Manifesto.

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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. AI as differentiator According to the study’s authors, banks that are strategically positioned in AI and agility can achieve transformative growth and efficiency.

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