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What Do CIOs Have To Know About Business Intelligence?

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to understand how to make use of new business intelligence tools Image Credit: deepak pal. Modern CIOs need to understand that Business intelligence (BI) leverages software and services to transform data into actionable insights that inform an company’s strategic and tactical business decisions.

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Agile project management: Principles, benefits, tools, tips, and when to make the switch

CIO Business Intelligence

Agile project management definition Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Many IT teams use agile methodologies to iteratively deliver feature-rich releases, improve capabilities, address technical debt, and experiment with emerging technologies. I recently moderated Adaptavist’s “Agile Back to Basics” roundtable, which included three authors of the Agile Manifesto.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO Business Intelligence

Altehed also says that Volvo’s systems span five decades, starting with mainframe environments from the 1970s and into modern technologies and tools recently launched. We need to take greater responsibility for the development of our digital products and not act as an internal supplier to our business.”

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7 tell-tale signs of fake agile

CIO Business Intelligence

The same is not true, sadly, for many agile project management and development initiatives. Too often, an organization may launch something that looks like an agile program, calls itself an agile program, claims to operate like an agile program, yet really isn’t an agile program in the least.

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Why business resilience depends on software agility

CIO Business Intelligence

In a world where companies are defined by the digital services they can deliver, software agility IS business agility, and in turn results in better business outcomes. Instead of tools serving to enhance productivity, today’s developers are caught in a tangled web of tools and services just to support their day-to-day.

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Streamlining IT for agility

CIO Business Intelligence

There’s never been more pressure on IT to deliver technology-enabled change to the business. CIO.com talked with four IT leaders about what’s driving their efforts to streamline IT for greater agility, how they’re doing it, what the biggest challenges are, and the tricks they’ve uncovered for doing it well.

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