Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Lyle, President of Duncan, LLC and myself on the value of CSBs with an emphasis on small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), regional businesses, and government. No two businesses have identical needs, and so specialized requirements need to be factored into the use of often commodity-type cloud services.

Cloud 171

Cloud Government Video Business Transformation 171

Future of CIO

JANUARY 21, 2019

Sure, in today's world, technology is driving business transformation, unlike previous eras during which business transformation was driven by business ideas. But how to run IT as a change agent for business transformation. Here are three attributes of the change agent.

Business Transformation 40

Business Transformation Change Management Strategy Agile 40

Future of CIO

MARCH 7, 2020

Sure, in today's world, technology is driving business transformation, unlike previous eras during which business transformation was driven by business ideas. But how to run IT as a change agent for business transformation. Here comes both opportunities and responsibility.

Business Transformation 52

Business Transformation Strategy How To Trends 52

Future of CIO

MAY 10, 2018

It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, advises on how to run a digital IT organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide the insight about Change Management. 42 Increasingly, enterprises find themselves enmeshed in digital “ecosystems.”

Agile 40

Agile Business Transformation Operating Systems Change Management 40

Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Being customer centric is key, to scale up, and to make the culture change stick, make continuous delivery via following the three “I”s: Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement. Applications will become more interrelated as we move to a world of systems-of-systems where constraints govern how and what we develop.

Business Transformation 40

Business Transformation Change Management Agile Software 40

Future of CIO

APRIL 9, 2013

In these forward-look organizations, IT has moved from providing largely back-office support to becoming the prime facilitator, enabler, and orchestrator of the total business. The increasing opportunity to externalize more IT infrastructure services (such as cloud) and business process apps is great news for CIOs, not a threat.

Government 56

Government Enterprise Enterprise Vendor Management 56

Fountainhead

AUGUST 30, 2011

Manpower is now being diverted into the NEW areas needing resourcing: Business Transformation of IT, and the services packaging, marketing, and management that comes along with it. 3 Tenets of IT Transformation. Another non-technological shift is how IT operations changes, morphs and grows. Enterprise Efficiency.

Data Center 184

Data Center Virtualization Cloud Change Management 184

Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This is a golden opportunity for CIOs to lead the way by enabling, governing and optimizing the consumer-driven technology and information management. But, as always, the challenge of managing human change and adoption is tough, and those firms that can accomplish this feat will have the ability to tackle other challenges.

Business Transformation 40

Business Transformation Strategy Government Agile 40

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. By March 2019, things were slipping.

SAP 128

SAP System Oracle Company 128

Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Sure, in today's world, technology is driving business transformation, unlike previous eras during which business transformation was driven by business ideas. But how to run IT as a change agent for business transformation. Here comes both opportunities and responsibility.

Business Transformation 40

Business Transformation Agile Industry Analysis 40

Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The Promises and Perils of IT-Driven Digital Transformation In today's world, information & technology is driving the digital paradigm shift. Unlike previous eras during which business transformation was driven by business ideas.

Fashion 56

Fashion Trends Strategy Business Transformation 56

Future of CIO

MARCH 31, 2012

Modern EA needs to shift from technology-focus to business focus, to help business blueprint capability map, then base on such sets of business capabilities & unique competency, EA need help further craft capability-driven strategy planning and create a vision for the enterprise, and provide the guide to execute it seamlessly.

Project Management 45

Project Management Training Knowledge Base Development 45

Future of CIO

APRIL 6, 2013

CIOs are change agents, for IT to enable and catalyze business transformation, for IT to oversight key business process and influence organizational culture. Change is the second most popular word in the 21st century. It takes both attitude and aptitude.

Business Transformation 49

Business Transformation Tools System Big Data 49

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

Enacted and proposed regulations in the EU, US, and beyond are deepening reporting requirements in an effort to change business behavior. What were once theoretical goals around environmental, social, and governance issues are rapidly evolving into mandatory efforts. The foundation for ESG reporting, of course, is data.

Report 115

Report Data Strategy Development 115

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

When reimagining the IT estate for data-first business, the opportunity is ripe for companies to rearchitect for a more sustainable IT environment. Drive cost efficiencies and make headway on meeting corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) targets, for starters. The benefits?

Data 103

Data How To Energy Data Center 103

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 26, 2022

When reimagining the IT estate for data-first business, the opportunity is ripe for companies to rearchitect for a more sustainable IT environment. Drive cost efficiencies and make headway on meeting corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) targets, for starters. The benefits?

Data 97

Data How To Energy Data Center 97

Future of CIO

APRIL 27, 2014

Even more amazingly, the flocks of birds are never led by a single bird but governed collaboratively by all of the flock members. When one bird changes direction or speed, each of the other birds in the flock responds to the change, and they do so nearly simultaneously regardless of the size of the flock.

Change Management 49

Change Management Strategy Project Management Data 49

Future of CIO

MARCH 16, 2018

Quality management ensures that an organization, product or service is consistent. Quality Management is not one department’s work, As a degree of quality is in everything people do and experience. Effectiveness: Effectiveness is about doing the right things and qualifying the business result.

Applications 40

Applications Business Transformation Development Industry 40

Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

EA still should play the bridge role between business and technology, the goal is to share the knowledge and recognize the optimization point. Become part of the organization’s operating model, assess organizational awareness and competencies periodically, to facilitate knowledge sharing, to drive change management and cultural influence.

Architecture 40

Architecture Government Enterprise Enterprise 40