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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.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

Mitre had to create its own system, Clancy added, because most of the existing tools use vendor-managed cloud infrastructure for the AI inference part. Another company using agents to automate business processes is SS&C, a financial services and healthcare technology company. We cant do that for security reasons, he says.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

The good news is all major cloud providers frameworks do the same thing: Operational excellence Security Cost optimization Reliability Performance efficiency Sustainability The framework helps in implementing the financial controls (FinOps) that we will discuss separately, management of workloads (BaseOps) and security controls (SecOps).

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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

In addition to the design of the transformation process, carrying out a dedicated cloud migration project is often not enough to achieve the necessary digital change. Often, it’s assumed that changing providers will then be almost impossible due to the immense technological and financial costs involved.

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Fountainhead: Cloud's Transformation: The Softer Side

Fountainhead

Implication: change management, goal changes, departmental funding changes. Implication: need for change management and new organizational design. CIO roles will shift to governance & vendor management (perhaps even modeling supply-chain management). IT Financial Management. (4).

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders may need fewer people managing servers and more people performing higher-level network engineering, systems integration, vendor management, data science, cloud security, or business analysis work. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says.

Strategy 363
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3 key roles for driving digital success

CIO Business Intelligence

These digital trailblazers , as I call them, are vital for digital transformation success, as they can be delegated leadership responsibilities such as the planning, execution, and change management of your digital initiatives. Agile PMOs take on these responsibilities and reduce the frictions that slow teams down.

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