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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. The change management process is very important when deploying these systems, says Pushpa Ramachandran, VP and global head AI at Wipro Technologies.

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

Ecosystem warrior: Enterprise architects manage the larger ecosystem, addressing challenges like sustainability, vendor management, compliance and risk mitigation. Strategic planning and demand/supply management is crucial to aligning resources with business goals and the enterprise architect has key input to this.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below.

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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. At the same time, it’s been possible to avoid excessive dependencies by building up or strengthening internal vendor management capacities.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Investment in training and change management is critical to the success. The CoE in this phase has to proactively engage ALL stakeholders, making them aware of the change in the mode of operation and guiding the team through training, coffee chats, and CoE sessions during this period of transformation.

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Once More Unto The Breach: Tech Leaders Face Another Year Of Volatility And Cuts

Forrester IT

In todays era of volatility, technology leaders will need to do more with even less. This means dusting off the cost-cutting playbook to seek out additional optimization opportunities without sacrificing your AI ambitions. Here are a few cost-cutting measures to focus on in the near term.