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The hard truth about lifecycle management

CIO Business Intelligence

IT gets lifecycle management wrong a lot. Search for a definition of lifecycle management and you’ll find something along the lines of: A strategic approach to managing the life cycle of an application or platform from conception to end of life — from provisioning, through operations, to retirement. The view from here?

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7 signs business stakeholders will sink your IT project

CIO Business Intelligence

Common factors of project failure are missed deadlines, blown budgets, or deliverables that fail to meet original objectives. CIOs and project managers understand these risks. They set and manage expectations and guard against scope creep. They do everything they can on the IT side to address them.

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What is ERP? Enterprise resource planning systems explained

CIO Business Intelligence

ERP definition. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a system of integrated software applications that manages day-to-day business processes and operations across finance, human resources, procurement, distribution, supply chain, and other functions. A common database. Consistent look and feel.

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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO Business Intelligence

Data governance definition Data governance is a system for defining who within an organization has authority and control over data assets and how those data assets may be used. It encompasses the people, processes, and technologies required to manage and protect data assets.

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Fountainhead: Predictions: What You WON'T See in IT For 2012

Fountainhead

And definitely not for an enterprise-ready level of availability. And I hope that change-management and organizational design models will mature to the level of technology models so that "turn-key" process change and skill development will accompany the product sale.

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10 digital transformation roadblocks — and 5 tips for overcoming them

CIO Business Intelligence

Reimagination of business processes sits at the core of digital transformation, and so, by definition, digital transformation challenges the status quo, throwing we-have-always-done-it-this-way sentiment out of the window. This may require hiring outside experts and/or investing in training and development for existing staff.

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3 key digital transformation priorities for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94% While not all these initiatives fit my definition of digital transformation, being able to oversee more initiatives, standardize multi-use platforms, and provide governed citizen data science programs can be highly transformative.

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