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Sysco’s recipe for growth centers on IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Having been very acquisitive over the years, Sysco found itself burdened with a lot of on-premise data centers and legacy applications. Like most companies, Sysco traditionally ran its B2B e-commerce business in a bulk reordering fashion.

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Amazon AWS really wasn’t designed for the Enterprise

Virtualized Greek

EMC’s Chad Sakac provides a use case where his team builds an AWS application to test their ScaleIO solution for a total cost of only $7.41! The first is management of the cloud itself. More importantly, the challenge is the cost models for IaaS solutions such as AWS versus the use model of typical enterprise applications.

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What is digital transformation? A necessary disruption

CIO Business Intelligence

Ideally led by the CEO in partnership with CIOs, CHROs, and other senior leaders, digital transformation requires cross-departmental collaboration to pair business-focused philosophies with rapid application development models. Next, “Horizon 2 is about innovating business models.

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The Value of Business Principles from EA Lenses

Future of CIO

And if only do one piece of work relative to enterprise architecture, it would be getting principles in place in a fashion that can be consistently applied to every decision. Such one thing alone does more to enable change than any amount of models, technology, projects, etc. Rationale: Why shall you hold this principle?

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Topgolf Callaway tees up digital transformation for global expansion

CIO Business Intelligence

Driving digital transformation Topgolf is just the latest in a string of acquisitions by Callaway, including fashion brand TravisMathew and OGIO International (a maker of golf bags, backpacks, and travel luggage) in 2017, and Jack Wolfskin (an outdoor apparel, footwear, and equipment company) in 2018.

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CIO Bhavani Amirthalingam on driving change in the AI era

CIO Business Intelligence

The second thing is, more often than not, organizations underestimate the change management that is instrumental for transformations to be successful. They think of change management as something you do at the end of the project, and that approach is bound to fail. Folks can get enamored by the technology.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: What if we tried to foresee what will follow the currently unfolding Knowledge Economy?

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

It is when ideas are used (to create practical application or to create ideas that then have practical application) that they have value. In the book, what I am saying is that I can change my thinking, my actions, my behaviour, my norms, my values, my beliefs. The same principle needs to be applied to leadership and management.

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