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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

In a damning audit report , Grant Thornton has exposed how the project implementation turned into a cautionary tale of project mismanagement, highlighting critical failures in governance, technical oversight, and vendor management that continue to impact the councils core operations. Cost overruns and delays: where did it go wrong?

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

By contrast, in some large financial services firms, the role of FinOps has broadened. Were moving FinOps practices into larger scopes of vendors, says Jennifer Hays, SVP and head of engineering excellence and accessibility at Fidelity Investments. Most FinOps principles have been applied to technology financials as a whole, he adds.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Oversee change in the program management office With traditional project-based approaches, stakeholders specify requirements and priorities, and a project manager oversees fulfilling them on time, on budget, and at agreed-upon quality. We also need to focus on measuring what matters and track more than financial outcomes.

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7 early warning signs of a dying IT project

CIO Business Intelligence

Learn to read the signs of potential business stakeholder disinterest and work to transform stakeholders into project partners to ensure at-risk projects can be righted or a mutual decision to shelve the project can be arrived at without disrupting other IT priorities or draining more time, budget, and resources.

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How To Onboard Startups

Forrester IT

The former have the customer base, budget, and scale that the latter crave. Large corporates and startups seems like a match made in heaven. And startups bring speed and agility and can help enterprises experiment with emerging technologies and business models.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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What IT executives are saying about vendor consolidation

CIO Business Intelligence

While there is little doubt that companies have been cutting back on expenses generally in response to economic uncertainty, startups in particular have been feeling the pain of contracting budgets and reluctant investors.

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