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Transforming IT for digital success

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One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

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West Monroe’s Tanowitz agrees, saying, “There’s cloud spend where immature governance approaches have resulted in excess consumption that can be reduced when a holistic cloud architecture approach is taken.” Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. For example, organizations may commit to containers that are too large, or reserve too much disk space. For example, retail sites typically have times when very few people shop.

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7 enterprise data strategy trends

CIO Business Intelligence

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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Aligning security and business strategies

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In times of economic downturn, for example, cybercrime may increase as people turn to illegal activities to make money. It attributed the rise to the proliferation of new technologies in regions around the world, with many more people than ever before possessing IT skills. 1 That’s a number no CFO would want to ignore.

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Five areas where EA matters more than ever

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The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) is often criticized for forcing technology choices on business users or producing software analyses no one uses. Forrester Research has identified more than 20 types of enterprise architecture roles being used by its clients.

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UC Riverside turns to cloud to supercharge scientific research

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They have an agile infrastructure. Google’s assistance in developing a more efficient cloud architecture and training UCR’s IT staff in cloud technologies has been an immeasurably valuable service, he says, adding that Google is in a support role and is not running the show. This is a ‘teach us to fish’ model.