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Business analytics: Creating one version of the truth
Deloitte's analytics strategy expert shares ways CIOs can identify and break down business analytics barriers and avoid quick data fixes and detours.
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Assessing an enterprise's analytics maturity
Ten basic questions will help guide enterprises along the path of analytics awareness.
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Creating a business analytics-aware culture
Deloitte Consulting's analytics strategy expert dishes on what it takes to make better use and sense of business analytics across the enterprise.
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Boost career with process management, IT specialization
CIOs concerned about their career track should take a hard look at IT specialization and find ways to become the business' BPM guru.
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Finding the sweet spots for business process automation
Many business processes lend themselves readily to the increased efficiencies of business process automation. The trick is figuring out which ones.
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10 tips to show the value of information technology
CIOs struggle to show the value of information technology. Gartner offers 10 tips for closing the value gap between IT spend and business aims.
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Setting the right pace key to Agile project management
It is up to Agile project management leaders to set a realistic and sustainable pace for these projects.
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Are legacy ideas keeping your virtualization down?
IT operations in a virtual world differ greatly from those in the physical world. Realizing virtualization's capabilities takes a new approach.
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Senior IT managers cite 19 public-cloud flaws
In a new survey, senior IT managers name 19 flaws in the public cloud. Five of those flaws stand out, but many believe they all can be overcome.
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Agile management helps skirt IT project obstacles
Traditional project management can ruin the best-intentioned IT efforts. It's time to get flexible and interact with stakeholders using Agile methods.
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For business transformation, align data governance, BI
BI initiatives will succeed in leading to business transformation only if they're focused on the foundation of a data governance program.
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Wringing the complexity out of BPM implementations
Business process management tools often are designed to compensate for overly complex processes. Learn to strip BPM down to manageable constituents.
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Critical insights on operational risk and business
Speed and complexity are putting more demands than ever on business operations. Operational risk management strategies can help bridge the gaps.
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IT outsourcing strategy tips for emerging technologies
An IT outsourcing strategy for emerging technology follows different rules from those of traditional deals. Here's a tip sheet for outsourcing new IT.
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Getting the most from your virtual desktops
Virtual desktops have enchanted IT as an extension of server and storage virtualization. But the reality often has been disappointing -- until now.
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Five questions to ask before tackling large-scale data
Large-scale data processing isn't easy, but it can give your organization a leg up on the competition. Here are five questions to get you started.
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The changing face of IT skill sets
This tip looks at the IT skill sets that most likely will be outsourced, and at seven skill sets CIOs will be scrambling to fill.
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Crafting a savvy business intelligence strategy
CIOs seeking competitive advantage must make better decisions about products, markets, operations and customers. The right BI strategy can guide them.
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Dissecting the CIO role in cloud and mobile computing
Leveraging cloud and mobile computing is now a requisite for CIO success. Early-adopter CIOs at MIT Sloan's CIO Symposium offer their insights.
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Tips to liven up a moribund PPM process
Do you think that project and portfolio management is dead? If you do, it could be your approach that's to blame. Try these tips to breathe some life into your PPM process.
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In data quality, what's 'good enough'?
Data quality remains a top challenge for business intelligence. For CIOs, this should be the question: What's good enough for the task at hand?
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BI projects require open mind, deft touch
Most organizations sit on a gold mine of business intelligence. Extracting it requires knowing how analytics projects differ from day-to-day IT work.
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Four steps to extended enterprise security
The extended enterprise encompasses mobile, social and cloud technology, and requires four decisive security countermeasures, Forrester Research says.
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Cloud strategies abound, but CIOs must make the calls
Given the growing number and quality of cloud strategies, CIOs must make sure they are the ones driving this cultural shift -- or risk obsolescence.