Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The remaining 70% comprises hidden costs that rarely make it into initial budgets or project proposals. I recently talked to the CEO of a mid-sized manufacturing company that budgeted $500,000 for an AI-driven quality control system. Cultural adaptation is another hidden cost that rarely makes it into initial budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Change management and IT complexity: One fifth of companies surveyed say that change management (22%) and IT complexity (21%) are the biggest obstacles. The difficulty of managing changes in the company and dealing with complex IT systems prevents the rapid implementation of digital projects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This led to a long tenure in central government in New Zealand as a policy researcher. Later, I transitioned into leadership, where I found a natural alignment with my skills and developed a passion for management. These individuals play a pivotal role in driving change and implementing new strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

These client technologists need the tools and governance to create digital products at the speed of business.” Business leaders can’t wait until next year for another budget to get approved.” “In our strategic plan, instead of referring to it as shadow IT, we added something called client technologist enablement,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Today’s CIOs inherit highly customized ERPs and struggle to lead change management efforts, especially with systems that [are the] backbone of all the enterprise’s operations,” wrote Isaac Sacolick, founder and president of StarCIO, a digital transformation consultancy, in a recent blog post.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

They must collaborate closely with engineering, operations, and security teams to design, implement, and govern an enterprise-wide consumption of cloud computing, making resources instantly consumable by developers and data scientists,” says Haseeb Budhani, co-founder and CEO of Rafay.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In 2019, McKinsey reported that 75% of ERP transformation projects fail , and nearly two-thirds risk budget overruns of an average 45%. Training agent: This agent is for change management and end-user enablement. The problem is how you are implementing it, how you are testing it, how you are supporting it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Scope management: Define scope, create work breakdown structure (WBS), gather requirements. Time management: Plan and develop schedules and activities, estimate resources and timelines. Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Quality management: Identify quality requirements. Budget for surprises.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

For example, government ERP uses contract lifecycle management (CLM) rather than traditional purchasing and follows government accounting rules rather than GAAP. Tier I Government ERPs support large, mostly federal, government agencies. Success breeds success often consuming more time than originally budgeted.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94% Initiatives vary by industry and business strategy and may include smart manufacturing , digital health , e-government initiatives , sustainability programs , digital twins , and others.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2024

While many blamed Congress, and there were underlying issues in managing the program , one primary root cause is that the redesign required overhauling more than 20 systems, some of which had not been updated in nearly 50 years. Many want all the benefits from analytics and machine learning but are slow to adopt proactive data governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 29, 2022

Robotic process automation (RPA) is an application of technology, governed by business logic and structured inputs, aimed at automating business processes. Implementing RPA can be challenging, given both the potential complexity of legacy business processes and the level of change management that can be required for RPA to succeed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. Skills: Skills for this role include knowledge of application architecture, automation, ITSM, governance, security, and leadership.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 4, 2022

If a department is underperforming, a CAO can step in and identify what areas need to change or be improved to turn things around. That might include developing long-term budgets, developing and monitoring KPIs, training new managers, and keeping a pulse on changing regulatory and compliance rules.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

If a department is underperforming, a CAO can step in and identify what areas need to change or be improved to turn things around. That might include developing long-term budgets, developing and monitoring KPIs, training new managers, and keeping a pulse on changing regulatory and compliance rules.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

It’s not a surprise that two out of every three IT organizations are planning to allocate more than five percent of their budgets to AI initiatives. 1 Embracing their change management roles CIOs—more than any other executive or line of business role—are becoming the central authority for most organization’s AI budgets and priorities.

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Cloud Musings

JUNE 3, 2014

[Republished from"On The FrontLines" magazine " Cloud Computing in Government: Lesson''s Learned " issue. Download t he full 20 page issue online at [link] onthefrontlines.net/i/319551 ) In February 2011, Vivek Kundra announced the “Cloud First” policy across the US Government.

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Government Cloud Change Management Architecture 101

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. This may require hiring outside experts and/or investing in training and development for existing staff.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 26, 2023

Project managers play the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing out projects. They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics outlook for project managers is bright.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

But whether you’re on the management track or have your eye on an IT management career, any one of these 20 IT management certifications should help give you a leg up in the industry. This certification will show you’re capable of dealing with any security threats, and well-versed on the requirements for IT governance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2024

More recently, his charter has expanded into helping the organization formulate business strategy and leading change management efforts to reinvent the 175-year company as a digital trailblazer in its field. On average, companies are reporting a 17% budget hike, slightly more than the 15% reported in the prior two years.

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Strategy Survey Enterprise Enterprise 325

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

Sfida numero due: il budget In altri casi, la trasformazione digitale non incontra resistenze, perché c’è la spinta dal basso: è l’utente che chiede di modificare un processo e introdurre innovazione. Quattro: attrarre le competenze Quando, però, la sicurezza è cruciale per il core business, le imprese mettono in campo budget adeguati.

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Strategy Dell Budget Disaster Recovery 246

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

From hardware and software upgrades to ongoing security patches, to application development and the rollout of software itself, project managers keep your teams on task and productive. Here, CIO.com outlines the most popular project management certifications that will add value and help you hone your skills this year.

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Project Management SCRUM Agile Program Management 279

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 20, 2024

Cisco also identified considerable gaps affecting genAI’s potential across six foundational business pillars — 1) strategy, 2) infrastructure, 3) data, 4) governance, 5) talent, and 6) culture — the key building blocks of any business. New: It all comes back to leadership and strategic change management, i.e. ‘transformation.’

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Strategy Research Survey Resources 362

Cloud Musings

JUNE 3, 2014

[Republished from"On The FrontLines" magazine " Cloud Computing in Government: Lesson''s Learned " issue. Download t he full 20 page issue online at [link] onthefrontlines.net/i/319551 ) In February 2011, Vivek Kundra announced the “Cloud First” policy across the US Government.

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Government Cloud Change Management Architecture 70

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. This may include who owns the workload; its dependencies on other applications; who authored it or what vendors are involved; security, governance, compliance, and data requirements; and special integration or location requirements. There are other risks, too.

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Strategy Cloud Applications Agile 363

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Discover Financial Services Arooni is joined by scores of industry leaders across segments such as retail, financial services, healthcare, even government entities moving in this direction. Embrace agile practices Few associate a government agency with a fast-track to business value, but Jamie Holcombe Jr.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

Drive cost efficiencies and make headway on meeting corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) targets, for starters. The annual budget cycle also encourages organizations to buy and deploy equipment even if there’s not a direct need, to avoid forfeiting available IT dollars. “If The benefits?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 26, 2022

Drive cost efficiencies and make headway on meeting corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) targets, for starters. The annual budget cycle also encourages organizations to buy and deploy equipment even if there’s not a direct need, to avoid forfeiting available IT dollars. “If The benefits?

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Data How To Energy Data Center 244

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

The council has people on it from both the IT and the business sides, says company CIO Davor Brkovich, and technologists are needed in order to understand what’s possible and to make sure the AI is governed appropriately. And I think we all know the only thing we can guarantee is that the pace of change is only getting faster,” he says.

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Future of CIO

AUGUST 10, 2014

It takes strategic and systematic thinking and a holistic IT governance approach in running an Agile IT. Digital IT is permeating into the very fabric or core processes in modern organizations, thus, IT governance is crucial to steering business in the right direction and make effective business decisions.

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Government Resources Enterprise Enterprise 49

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

With lots of Indians here and not much of a time difference, change management is less, too.” The challenges of managing IT in a foreign land Adjusting to a new environment, motivating team members, and earning trust are challenges all expat CIOs confront. There were huge changes in my perspective.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Protective packaging firm’s profit takes a knock from ERP Packaging firm Ranpak’s SAP migration was far from a disaster — it took less than a year and was delivered on time and to budget — but nevertheless initially led to disappointing results. The company rolled out the new ERP in January 2022, coinciding with its new fiscal year.

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SAP System Oracle Company 321

Future of CIO

AUGUST 13, 2013

A simple definition of IT Governance is how to manage IT - "… the leadership and organizational structures and processes that ensure the organization’s IT sustains and extends the organization’s strategies and objectives." Governance Institute). However, governing the delivery does not have to be too complex.

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Government Agile Budget Architecture 40

Future of CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Governance is like 'steer,' to ensure business running in the right direction. Governance is an organizational capability for risk mitigation, whereas IT governance is primarily operational with the focus on directing how IT services enable business operations through people, process, SLAs, reporting, etc.

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Government Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 40

Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Change planning: Organizational change management needs to go hand-in-hand with strategy management nowadays. A Strategy for "change" should focus on betterment. Planning is an effective way to achieve change if planning effort in integrated with normal management practices.

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Fountainhead

DECEMBER 15, 2011

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. So, for 2012 - and for the foreseeable future - this trend wont change.

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