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12 ‘best practices’ IT should avoid at all costs

CIO Business Intelligence

From establishing internal customers to instituting charge-backs to insisting on ROI, a lot of this advice looks plausible when viewed from 50,000 feet or more. They’re IT’s colleagues, with whom IT collaborates as equals if anything good is going to happen for the company as a whole. What makes IT organizations fail?

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How to kick-start your generative AI strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

To identify opportunities and determine the potential ROI for generative AI applications, McAfee advises that business leaders consider these four basic steps. So says Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Someone who is a new coder can start to be productive pretty easily,” says McAfee.

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4 CIOs on marketing IT’s value to the business

CIO Business Intelligence

We may hope that the work speaks for itself, but the reality is, IT leaders must communicate IT’s accomplishments in a way that people can understand why and how it matters to them. Messaging matters Not many IT people jump out of bed and say to themselves, “I cannot wait to go market technology today.” The big takeaway?

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Misled by metrics: 7 KPI mistakes IT leaders make

CIO Business Intelligence

“Therefore, CIOs must be cautious about taking metrics at face value [and] leaders need to understand the data behind the metrics.”. Here are seven ways IT leaders are often misled by key performance indicators (KPIs) and other critical business and IT metrics. Not considering the source. Not considering the source.

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The unfulfilled promise of automation: DNA matters

CIO Business Intelligence

Every few years, a viral story breaks about how identical twins, separated at birth, discovered one another as adults. The documentary film Three Identical Strangers tells the incredible story of triplets unethically separated at birth in the name of science. DNA matters. Better, faster, cheaper. This is not surprising.

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Trying to Market a Horizontal Technology? Think Again.

Fountainhead

Why marketers fail to focus on industry-specific buyers I was recently speaking with 2 CEOs of leading-edge technology companies about how they go-to-market. Avoiding technology marketing gaffes Speaking as a (recovering) technologist I can say that engineers and technical leaders are unbelievably proud of their accomplishments.

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Applying Different Kind of Rationality to Manage Business Complexity

Future of CIO

Organizational leaders today should take a holistic view and structural approach to manage business complexity and improve organizational maturity. Multi-dimensional business values: Not all business value is directly related to ROI, at least not in the near term. Identify stories on the basis of their "strategic" or "tactical" value.

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