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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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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

“This underlines the need for organizations to embrace change and adopt a more agile and forward-thinking approach to digital transformation skills in order to overcome challenges and achieve digital transformation,” says Monika Sinha, research vice president in Gartner’s CIO Research group.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

To do this well, IT leaders should uncover the key objectives of each stakeholder, tie those objectives back to enterprise business goals, and align everyone on common goals through top-down discussions and mandates, says Mukesh Ranjan, vice president in the IT services team at Everest Group.

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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). Burton Group blog.

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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s a versatile certification that covers multiple methodologies, frameworks, and management concepts — best suited for those who coordinate or manage small-to-midsize projects. Exam fee: $207 Expiration: Does not expire For additional project management certs, see our roundup of top project management certs.

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7 common transformation mistakes and how to avoid them

CIO Business Intelligence

Foracchia says that AUSL Reggio Emilia has a strategic planning group made up of non-IT people with a business mandate that defines the ICT strategy. Of course, ICT is part of this planning group as well, but has a strategic rather than a technical role. So internal communication on projects and managing escalations is essential.

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