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

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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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How Kimberly-Clark’s Zack Hicks heeds the call for innovation

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A lot of companies that did outsourcing have found themselves in a situation where they have a lot of vendor managers versus technologists. You can vote with your budget. I try to engage with my peers a lot through industry groups like the CIO Strategy Exchange where I learn a lot from others. And I said, Well you can.

Strategy 279
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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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Rationalize and integrate For many IT leaders, mergers and decentralization on top of cloud migration strategies are significant contributors to SaaS management headaches, resulting in increased complexity and redundancies that can be challenging to uncover. It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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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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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. Communicate and negotiate with other groups to create a successful cloud strategy.” Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. And the costs recur monthly or quarterly,” Upchurch says.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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“Collaboration with external partners allows enterprises to enhance their IT prowess, drive innovation, and bridge skill gaps more effectively amid a swiftly evolving digital landscape,” says Arpita Dwivedi, practice director at Everest Group. Double down on vendor management. Staff augmentation and outsourcing are nothing new.

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How to succeed as a fractional CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

Like a conventional CIO, a full-time fractional CIO is responsible for an enterprise’s overall IT strategy and management, says Abhi Shrikhande, vice president and general manager of technology services at freelance talent network Toptal. What services do fractional CIOs provide?

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