Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 12, 2009

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Collaboration between Business and IT Leads to Innovation.

Agile 101

Agile Software Development Big Data Development 101

Future of CIO

JUNE 11, 2014

Smart is in a sense of how to cover all important business objectives, but not too many KPIs, to measure the progress, and not only the final result, to show the status at a glance without the need to drill down too much and so on.

Business Transformation 49

Business Transformation Financial Licensing Budget 49

Future of CIO

JULY 17, 2019

Logically, the role of IT in the current dynamic business environment should be able to enable business outcomes and catalyze organizational growth. From finance perspective, budget planning, priority change, resource reallocation, technology diversions, etc, will force IT management to become more rational and logical.

Engineering 45

Engineering Business Transformation Budget Energy 45

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

With enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications at the heart of many a company’s operations, the consequences of a failed software rollout can be serious, including shareholder lawsuits and financial meltdown. Was HANA an undercooked product doomed to fail?

SAP 128

SAP System Oracle Company 128

Future of CIO

APRIL 9, 2019

Ironically, often technology is the disruptive force behind the business transformation. Today’s digital dynamic enables companies to leverage their various environments or ecosystems, to chase growth opportunities and accelerate business performance.

Trends 40

Trends Enterprise Enterprise Business Transformation 40

Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Thursday, September 22, 2011. Being a CIO: One Year Later.

Agile 100

Agile Social Construction Business Intelligence 100

Future of CIO

JANUARY 12, 2013

Why : ends-means-ends What : thing-relationship-thing How : input-process-output Where : site-link-site Who : role-work product-role When : event-cycle-event (moment-state-moment) EA is like compass or GPS to guide through business transformation via such 5W+1H navigation. And EA is all about transformation.

Architecture 40

Architecture Strategy Business Transformation Analysis 40

Future of CIO

DECEMBER 14, 2018

What defines science from chance is the ability to repeat a process with the same resultant solution every time, through the application of known facts. IT needs to integrate varying applications and enable workflows between them. Fundamentally, IT is the scientific and systems engineering organization. Science = "What" & "How."

Development 40

Development Engineering System Fashion 40

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2022

But for Kumbhat, it’s the business that drives the IT agenda, not the other way around. We actually lead with business transformation — and then we did a cloud migration as a part of that.”. So many companies started out with a cloud transformation and then selectively they drove business transformation.

Business Transformation 125

Business Transformation Retail Cloud B2C 125

Future of CIO

JANUARY 25, 2013

If leadership teams do not collaborate as a whole, but act as the sum of pieces, unhealthily compete with each other internally about budgeting, resources, credit, and blames, then, the CIO as "influential" role may turn to be second class, as they are not as "powerful" as CEOs, or as "rich" as CFOs, etc. Follow us at: @Pearl_Zhu.

Engineering 53

Engineering Budget Change Management Strategy 53

Future of CIO

JANUARY 19, 2016

Today, the CIO is not just managing IT to keep the lights on but is managing the information to ensure the right people getting the right information at the right time to make the right decision, to enable enterprises to become nimble and gain the competitive edge, to harness innovation catalyzed by IT and lead to business transformation.

Strategy 40

Strategy Enterprise Enterprise Business Transformation 40

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s so important to understand the shift in business processes. You need to ask the important questions: How will employees and vendors access systems and applications? Cybersecurity for the enterprise is a critical aspect of doing business in our online and connected world. So, with a limited budget, where should we focus?

Enterprise 105

Enterprise Enterprise Disaster Recovery Authentication 105

Future of CIO

MAY 29, 2016

The main problem is that the business executive still limits their vision of IT as “IT supports a strategy.” As a matter of fact, digital technology is often the disruptive force for business transformation. IT is not just to support strategy, IT strategy is an integral part of business strategy.

Strategy 40

Strategy Enterprise Enterprise Agile 40

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Several of Albemarle’s existing software suppliers, including ServiceNow and Workday, offered bots that could respond to questions and automate workflows, but they were specific to those applications. “We Albemarle’s first application of Moveworks was automating password resets. Then tackle the business side of things.

Applications 98

Applications Survey Software Software 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2023

For too many, their vision of ‘land and expand’ evolved into an unwelcome reality of ‘land and sprawl’ before they got help that drained budgets and failed to meet expectations. We’ve strived to become a close partner in our customers’ digital business transformations,” says Fortwengler. “It

Vmware 63

Vmware Disaster Recovery Cloud Enterprise 63

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

All it takes is an understanding of how gen AI works, its applications, and limitations. But to find ways it can help grow a company’s bottom line, CIOs have to do more to understand a company’s business model and identify opportunities where gen AI can change the playing field. And revenue operations is part of that.

Financial 69

Financial Insurance Survey Security 69

Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Performance evaluation of IT efficiency (keep the lights on) and effectiveness (top-line revenue growth, and business transformation): In reality, the IT environment is often fraught with information inconsistency, process redundancy, and platform/system overlapping. IT portfolio rationalization is an activity more critical than ever.

Budget 45

Budget Financial Resources Business Transformation 45

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

For tech, it means dedicated time, talent, and budget to consciously and constantly try out new things. And then mainstreaming into your business the stuff that proves valuable.” The business shouldn’t forget about people and social responsibility, so AI to business transformation should be planned carefully,” she says.

Fractional CTO 135

Fractional CTO Artificial Intelligence Security CTO 135