Digital Insights
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Enterprise digitization's secret ingredient: Fusion teams
Cross-functional or 'fusion' teams are critical to meeting fast-changing digital challenges. Here are the four must-have team attributes for successful enterprise digitization. Continue Reading
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Security practices don't have to hinder IT speed
Speed-to-market strategies shouldn't be bogged down by IT security. Here are two steps that will help CISOs adapt governance practices to support IT speed. Continue Reading
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Why EA should take the lead on improving customer experience
The business shift to digital goods and services gives IT a critical role in improving the customer experience. Here's why CIOs are assigning enterprise architecture the job. Continue Reading
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Reshape the role of the PMO for the digital era
The project management office needs a new mandate to be a player in digital transformation. Matt McWha offers advice on how to rethink the role of the PMO. Continue Reading
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Time to replace 'corral and control' with a digital data strategy
As data volumes explode and business uses for data increase, the old "data-first" mindset no longer applies. CIOs must develop a digital data strategy. Here is what's required. Continue Reading
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Use the cloud to achieve operating model transformation: Six steps
Cloud computing is not an end in itself. To build a scalable cloud infrastructure that helps bring about operating model transformation, Mark Tonsetic advises CIOs to take these six steps. Continue Reading
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App development teams need to adapt to business-led IT
App development teams are at an inflection point: They can act as sole producers -- and fail to meet digital demands -- or enable business-led IT with application building blocks. Continue Reading
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Running Agile at scale: Three challenges
CEB: To implement Agile at scale, CIOs will need to educate product managers, seek nontraditional sources of funding and become Agile ambassadors. Continue Reading
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Break the bottleneck with this new IT/business engagement model
CIO teams need to interact more directly with business stakeholders -- from the digital sophisticates to the digital naïfs. Here are five elements of a new business engagement model. Continue Reading
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Product line management is fundamental to the new IT operating model
Digital transformation requires CIOs to rethink the way IT operates. At the center of the new IT operating model is product line management, explains CEB's Matt McWha. Continue Reading
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Selling the value of cloud computing to the C-suite
Selling the value of cloud computing to business leaders requires more than the usual bromides about cost savings and speed-to-market. Continue Reading
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CIO outlook 2017: Five elements of the new IT operating model
CIO outlook 2017: Jettison the plan-build-run model, form fusion teams, hire agile learners, double down on IT risk and spearhead a plan to maximize the value of data. Here's how. Continue Reading
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Achieve digital success: Takeaways from CEB's Summit for IT Leaders
Faster IT operating models, companywide change, new hires: The CEB Summit for IT Leaders maps out the steps to digital success. Continue Reading
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Radical changes in IT are masked by sluggish information technology budgets
Far from stagnant, corporate IT budgets are actually highly dynamic. Growth is tied to digitization efforts which, in turn, are driving big changes in IT. Continue Reading
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Changes in CISO responsibilities call for new reporting structure
CISO responsibilities are both expanding and shifting to other departments. CEB's Jeremy Bergsman sorts out the future state of IS, privacy and the risk ecosystem. Continue Reading
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Advice for IT leaders: How to tell the cloud story
The case for cloud computing is less about the technical fine points and more about telling a compelling story to your IT team and business peers. Here are four essential elements. Continue Reading
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The pivotal role of CIOs in digital readiness: Three principles
Putting one person in charge of digital readiness won't work, says CEB's Andrew Horne, but that doesn't mean CIOs don't play a pivotal role in digital transformation. Continue Reading
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Board presentations on IT risk: Don't make these five mistakes
CIO and CISO board presentations on cybersecurity are on the rise. Jeremy Bergsman of consultancy CEB explains what not to do. Continue Reading
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Six shifts that define enterprise digitization in 2020
Before business leaders get dragged into conversations about how their company can be the "Uber of their industry," they need to agree on the IT and business trends driving enterprise digitization. Continue Reading