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

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprise architecture (EA) has evolved beyond governance and documentation. A centralized EA repository enables enterprise-wide visibility into systems, dependencies, and risks. 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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Cisco: Pressure to deploy AI is up, but only 13% feel ready

Network World

Pressure to implement AI plans is on the rise, but the readiness of enterprise networks to handle AI workloads has actually declined over the past year , according to new research from Cisco. However, between 2023 and 2024, global AI readiness in the enterprise has declined.

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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. Ensure that your plan supports one or more of your organization’s key business strategy goals, such as improving agility, reducing costs, boosting security, or enhancing customer experience.”

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Talent gap complicates cost-conscious cloud planning

Network World

Enterprises know everything is not moving to the cloud that was the lesson of 2024, and it triggered some extreme reactions that fueled the cloud repatriation stories we all heard. The first step in addressing that challenge, according to enterprises, is addressing why cloud application planning is a challenge in the first place.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Most IT departments are under-resourced and left to debate what capabilities, improvements, and fixes to prioritize. 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.

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What is data architecture? A framework to manage data

CIO Business Intelligence

Data architecture definition Data architecture describes the structure of an organizations logical and physical data assets, and data management resources, according to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). Optimize data flows for agility. Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture. Cloud storage. Cloud computing.