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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

CIO Business Intelligence

While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. However, it’s important to remember that headcount and budget cuts are not the only strategies to streamline costs.

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Corporate Performance Management vs. Business Intelligence

Future of CIO

Corporate Performance Management (CPM) is a set of management and analytic processes that enable the management of an organization 's performance to achieve one or more pre-selected goals. Business Intelligence is about managing data. It is a matter of which perspective the analysis is being performed.

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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

CIO Business Intelligence

Scope management: Define scope, create work breakdown structure (WBS), gather requirements. Time management: Plan and develop schedules and activities, estimate resources and timelines. Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Quality management: Identify quality requirements. Budget for surprises.

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Building digital fluency in the C-suite and beyond

CIO Business Intelligence

More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives. We’re investing a significant amount of time, resources, and budget to ensure we remain competitive in the digital age.” Everything is positive.

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What is change management? A guide to organizational transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

What is the main purpose of change management? In modern IT, change management has many different guises. Project managers view change management as the process used to obtain approval for changes to the scope, timeline, or budget of a project. What are the benefits of change management?

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The hard truth about lifecycle management

CIO Business Intelligence

Search for a definition of lifecycle management and you’ll find something along the lines of: A strategic approach to managing the life cycle of an application or platform from conception to end of life — from provisioning, through operations, to retirement. Under this definition lifecycle management doesn’t seem to do anything.

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What is a project manager? The lead role for project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Project managers play the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing out projects. They are accountable for the entire project scope , the project team and resources, the project budget, and the success or failure of the project.