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How to Define IT Agility?

Future of CIO

So keeping an eye on where IT initiatives cluster on the value-net (internally focused/ supply side/demand side) would be a first measure of whether IT dollars line up with the strategic direction. It requires a good understanding of what is meant by strategic agility, to avoid over-investing in a given layer of the technology stack.

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What is Greatest Risk in Risk Management

Future of CIO

The greatest risk will be a real business/reputation issue that is not being properly identified/managed. This is actually a very thorny issue where judgment still trumps any prescriptive RM standard : Identifying all possible risks is casting such a wide net that it is essentially an elusive goal.