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How To Onboard Startups

Forrester IT

The former have the customer base, budget, and scale that the latter crave. And startups bring speed and agility and can help enterprises experiment with emerging technologies and business models. Large corporates and startups seems like a match made in heaven.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. Instead, experts advise using agile principles for quick wins and incremental advancements whenever possible.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. 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. How will we balance security, agility, and usability? There are other risks, too.

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The Holistic IT Governance

Future of CIO

It takes strategic and systematic thinking and a holistic IT governance approach in running an Agile IT. Begin with the CIO identifying every component of the cost associated with "keeping the lights on", then the currently approved projects by title, executive sponsor, budget, schedule, and resources dedicated to each project.

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CIO as Chief Improvement Officer: How do you Learn from IT Failures

Future of CIO

Knowing how to "really do" risk management, quality assurance, vendor management, etc, not just fill out templates that were originally designed to provide directions and to create thought and brainstorm. Additionally, the ability to be agile and adapt to the changes -- because change happens.

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Vendor consolidation a hot-button topic for CIOs as they try to manage the tensions between innovation and efficiency

CIO Business Intelligence

New Methodologies – Agile methodology is more needed than ever, so organisations can experiment, measure outcomes, and learn fast. Governance and Ownership – striking the right balance between retaining the right level of control while also allowing the Agile approach to thrive is critical.

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