CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s easy to view these as competing priorities vying for CIO attention and budget that are unfairly dwarfed by boardroom interest in the new and shiny opportunities promised by gen AI. It also means many more machine identities to manage, says Murali Palanisamy, chief solutions officer at IAM platform provider AppViewX. “As

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Future of CIO

APRIL 30, 2013

Agility is not just the ability to change. The aim of an EA must be to define, implement and refine the overall architecture on a continuous basis. But, what’re the new characteristics of Agile EA? Agile EA What Is Agility ? According to industry experts: Agility is not just the ability to change.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2024

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2022

“You can imagine what the Infrastructure Act and the Go Green [initiatives] has meant for my budget. I don’t want to give you exact numbers, but I had a smaller budget when I was the chief information officer at Dell.”. Modernizing a utility’s data architecture. We’re very mature in our data architecture and what we want.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2023

Schneider Electric’s IT organization achieved that goal by reducing the layers for technology- and budget-related approvals, and by trusting managers and staff to make as many of those decisions as possible within the company’s “delegation of authority pathways” framework. Those are the areas where we have leadership eyes.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

Tight budgets and labor shortages have remained an ongoing challenge for IT leaders in 2023. How can we free up funds in one area to invest or innovate in another area of the business? You want to have a cloud data platform that allows for fast set up and time to market, but it also needs to integrate with modern architecture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What they are less decisive about is how to map the right cloud modernization journey, one that is efficient and secure while delivering business agility and competitive advantage. A majority of companies are confident in a future built around hybrid cloud, according to a recent poll conducted by The Harris Poll and IBM.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Equally important is communicating with stakeholders how to onboard technology requests, sharing how departmental technology needs are prioritized, documenting stakeholder responsibilities when seeking new technologies, and providing the status of active programs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Pre-COVID, agility became an aspiration and rallying cry for organizations seeking to embrace emerging technologies and pursue technology-enabled innovation, often to stave off digital disruption in their industries. This goes beyond implementing agile methodology. Balance control with agility. Think a step ahead.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Learn why IT projects still fail at an alarming rate, beware the 10 project management myths to avoid , and find out how to pick the right project management methodology for your team. | How to create a RACI matrix. 16 tips for a smooth switch to agile project management. Agile project management: A comprehensive guide.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

This is especially prevalent within networking—not just budget flexibility, but resourcing flexibility (how to staff and manage your network), and how to stitch together legacy networks to optimize for performance and reduce complexity. This need to quickly adapt has increased exponentially in the past few years.

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Network Cloud Survey Agile 52

Future of CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2013

As EA builds and grows maturity, how to define EA maturity and establish a valuable and consistent way to measure maturity and make a comparison with other companies as well? How to Define EA Maturity EA maturity is the organizational, procedural, resourceful and technical capability of the company to undertake an EA work.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Many enterprises still utilize legacy solutions, old and new technologies, inherited policies, processes, procedures, or approaches, but wrestle with having to blend it all within a new architecture that enables more agility and speed,” says Paola Saibene, principal consultant at IT advisory firm Resultant.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 1, 2022

Steve Miller, vice president and CTO of Steelcase, which manufactures furniture, interior architecture, and tech products, makes no bones about the fact that IT needed a makeover a few years back. We made a really significant shift in our operating model to move to agile full-stack,’’ Forbes says. “We Mapping out tensions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2022

They can do that, for example, by adopting true agile principles where business and developers work collaboratively and iteratively side by side. Inflation, concerns about a possible recession, and fears of stagflation have executives across industries reassessing budgets and, thus, making cost containment a major goal again.

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Cloud Data Strategy Enterprise 144

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

Much like Shadow IT before it, Shadow AI appears to already be here–all while many organizations are still figuring out how to use GenAI and what their posture will be. Business units eager to move quickly took discretionary departmental budgets and plowed them into as-a-Service offerings that meant they no longer needed to wait on IT.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The challenge then for the CIO is how to innovate and stay at the cutting edge of technology, grasp the latest technology and apply it to the unique problems and needs faced by their CEOs.”. However, with perceived benefits of agility and cost savings, modern CIOs are under more internal pressure than ever to shift to the cloud.

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Budget Cloud IBM Security 63

Future of CIO

AUGUST 13, 2013

Work to make complicated matters “less complicated," to enforce agility. A simple definition of IT Governance is how to manage IT - "… the leadership and organizational structures and processes that ensure the organization’s IT sustains and extends the organization’s strategies and objectives." Governance Institute). will be made b).

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Are they technological or are they actually business challenges – Agility, Risk, Cost (ROI/TCO) etc? How do you socialize those prioritized needs with the rest of the company executives? Increasing agility: More than anything else, the CIO is now expected to be more of a business leader first and a technologist second.

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Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It is also critical to build a cross-functional decision-making team and establish reasonable and actionable guidelines for evolving the KM infrastructure to address end-user needs, and transform modern businesses from static to dynamic, from efficient to agile and from functioning to delight. IT cannot architecture itself in isolation.

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Future of CIO

AUGUST 7, 2013

Mistakes are made when the all-in value of a business line (including technology) is not taken into consideration when making budget decisions. Re-plan any project or undertaking via Agile methodology so that there are deliverables that provide benefit to the business at the shorter delivery cycle. Rigorously identify and pursue value.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 5, 2013

EA can best help by first selling the idea that innovation risk is worth supporting, both with time and budget. But, how can enterprise architecture support innovation? Enterprise architecture can support such innovation only if it undergoes a paradigm shift. Innovation is light every business is pursuing now.

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Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 40

Future of CIO

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

IT leaders must know how to promote their organizations by "selling the right things right." How do you get the non-IT stakeholders to recognize and support the notion that IT and Business are not separate or independent departments? IT becomes an easy excuse for being too late and above budget.

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Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Fashion 40

Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

How to REFINE the art of next generation of BPM : 1. Reframe the Enterprise Architecture via Enterprise 2.0 Cloud Computing allows organizations to experiment on new innovative ideas with a limited budget, fast setup, and expand their product or marketing niche to create a new business model and revenue stream with scalability.

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Unified Communications Enterprise Enterprise Cloud 40

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Yet while data-driven modernization is a top priority , achieving it requires confronting a host of data storage challenges that slow you down: management complexity and silos, specialized tools, constant firefighting, complex procurement, and flat or declining IT budgets. Go faster with a cloud experience everywhere.

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Future of CIO

MAY 29, 2015

The industry study suggests that half of all large IT projects defined as those with initial price tags exceeding $15 million, massively blow their budgets. On average, large IT projects run 45 percent over budget and 7 percent over time, while delivering 55+ percent less value than predicted. Budgets are another.

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Budget Agile Development Tools 49

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Digging through research examining the impact of standard conventions like siloed teams and staged gate processes, Arooni began percolating ideas for how to shift IT organizations away from the traditional project-oriented culture to something more agile, with greater business accountability and more responsiveness to changing customer needs. “We

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Future of CIO

APRIL 15, 2012

IT investment now is a strategic imperative for a forward-looking business to pursue the growth, but how to do it wisely, what’s your holistic IT investment strategy? It may be that most businesses already know how to manage to advertise and R&D to their best advantage, but only some have mastered managing IT.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2022

DataOps (data operations) is an agile, process-oriented methodology for developing and delivering analytics. DataOps principles Like DevOps, DataOps takes its cues from the agile methodology. They also note DataOps fits well with microservices architectures. What is DataOps? Their capabilities and sensibilities begin to rub off.

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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

To date, communications service providers’ (CSPs’) implementations of network-as-a-service (NaaS) have focused on increasing efficiency and agility in business and operations while improving business customers’ service experience. At least that’s the promise; few current implementations meet this high bar.

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Future of CIO

JULY 1, 2012

IT needs to shift the mindset, when presenting, always focus on business value, it's about how to craft and verify capability-driven business strategy, it's about next practice for business governance, it's about business process optimization, and it's also about organizational structure retooling. Follow us at: @Pearl_Zhu.

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Government Agile Enterprise Enterprise 40

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Don’t make the startup guess,” says Mathieu, adding that CIOs should provide clarity around budgets and approval processes in particular. CEO, and principal of smart manufacturing at Connektedminds, suggests that CIOs envision how the startup relationship might evolve longer term. Joanne Friedman, PhD.,

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Enterprise Enterprise Devops Development 105

Future of CIO

APRIL 28, 2013

In short, how to shape a CIO with leadership wisdom, quality, and commitment to work? As far as for CIOs' development, first of all, classify mostly three types of CIOs out there: (1 ) An IT Specialist : Techie who was dragged into managing people and still gets deeply involved in tech decisions and architectures.

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Development Training Strategy Study 40

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

And that is in no small part thanks to the vision of James McGlennon, who in his role as CIO of Liberty Mutual for past 17 years has led the charge to the cloud, analytics, and AI with a budget north of $2 billion. It’s a big number,” he says.

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Cloud Insurance Applications Data 143

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 27, 2022

And that is in no small part thanks to the vision of James McGlennon, who in his role as CIO of Liberty Mutual for past 17 years has led the charge to the cloud, analytics, and AI with a budget north of $2 billion. It’s a big number,” he says.

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Cloud Insurance Applications Data 97

Future of CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2012

For enterprise application development, it is best to make sure you have the best solution that meets the organization's needs, budgeting time and finances accordingly to avoid costly headaches usually associated with "quickie' development projects. Further, the fourth dimension needs to be added to the equation: Complete.

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SDLC Agile Architecture Applications 45

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

JANUARY 13, 2022

As IT departments face challenges such as talent shortages and stagnant software budgets, more will turn to low-code/no-code tools which can reduce development time and save money. Microsoft Research has also published a paper on how to emulate a blockchain using a conventional database, enabling the two models to coexist.

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