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Agile Procurement In Government Is Not An Oxymoron

Forrester IT

In any conversation focused on Agile, it takes some time to figure out what each party means when they use the term. In my early research on Agile procurement in government (and Agile procurement in general), almost all of those conversations quickly devolved into what groups were doing Agile software development.

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3 key roles for driving digital success

CIO Business Intelligence

They must collaborate with execution teams on an agile process that adopts continuous planning , delivery, and transformation practices and seeks customer feedback to adjust priorities. Product leaders are most responsible for a digital transformation initiative’s scope, priorities, and change management.

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How To Onboard Startups

Forrester IT

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. The former have the customer base, budget, and scale that the latter crave.

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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. Digital IT is permeating into the very fabric or core processes in modern organizations, thus, IT governance is crucial to steering business in the right direction and make effective business decisions.

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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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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. Whether agile should include FinOps or not is a matter of debate,” he says. You also sacrifice the opportunity to standardize on optimization, operations, security management and so on,” he adds. “The

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CIOs still grapple with what gen AI can do for the enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

It can be used to curate internal and external industry data that’s then used to train traditional algorithms to deliver agile results.” If you get your governance, security, and your data ingestion right, generative AI can help scale a small company into a big company — and a lean one,” says Thompson. “My