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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

Traditionally, such an initiative would involve business process analysis, a fit-gap analysis, and process re-engineering — all of which eats up time. Apply agile principles for quick wins Although legacy tech can be monolithic, there’s no reason that the approach to their modernization should be clunky all-or-nothing propositions.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. Understanding the price differentials between reserve and regular pricing is key to performing that analysis. Whether agile should include FinOps or not is a matter of debate,” he says.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. efficiency, agility, cost savings) as well as any performance characteristics that will help determine whether it is a good candidate for cloud.

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Three “T” Factors in Running a Digital IT

Future of CIO

It will mean that the enterprise view, customer contact, GRC and vendor management are the most important elements of an IT organization. In order to speed up and shift to the proactive mode, there is an “alphabetic soup” in running a digital IT which must lead to reaching high-level performance and maturity.

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12 strategic tips CIOs can learn from tech vendor CTOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Here are 12 other tips tech vendor CTOs have to offer CIOs embarking on a more software- and services-defined digital journey. Adopt the new agile Just as CIOs have begun ramping up their organizations on agile methodologies, it’s important for them to know that the days of Scrum masters and Kanban boards are already past.

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