Tips

Tips

Bimodal IT organization

• New BPMS architecture is answer to 'future-proofing' the enterprise

  An aging, complex IT environment needed to become more nimble -- and remain stable. A months-long project using a new BPMS architecture pointed the way.  Continue Reading

• BPMS architecture modernizes legacy tech, makes IT more strategic

  The technology of the past put humans on the moon, but it's bringing businesses to a breaking point. Here's why CIOs should consider a BPMS architecture to modernize legacy systems.  Continue Reading

• IoT adoption gets a C+ from Cisco expert -- how can CIOs improve?

  Why is IoT adoption in trouble? Underestimating the disruption to the business is one reason, says Cisco's Jon Stanford, in this tip on the challenges and best practices for IoT adoption.  Continue Reading

• 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

• 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

• Setting up a service automation framework

  In this third tip in a series on service automation, the global CIO searches for and finds a service automation framework.  Continue Reading

• What is IT service automation? Exceeding user expectations

  In this second tip in a series on IT service automation, the global CIO calls an urgent meeting of his executive team then gives the summer intern the floor.  Continue Reading

• A CTO offers advice on managing acquisition risks

  An ambitious project to modernize legacy software has added IT prowess and is driving innovation. One unforeseen consequence? Acquisitions are up, and so are acquisition risks.  Continue Reading

• Robust DevOps trend fueled by IT's need for speed, survey says

  A survey from IT service management provider Pink Elephant pinpoints the motives and success factors driving the burgeoning DevOps trend.  Continue Reading

• 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

• In a post-Agile world, it's time for a new manifesto

  Joseph Flahiff laments the current state of Agile, explains how to make improvements and challenges his fellow Agilists to search for the next new way to work.  Continue Reading

• 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

• 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

• CTO: Our quest for agility led us to the OpenStack framework

  Niel Nickolaisen's abiding mission is to make IT a nimble partner to the business. The OpenStack framework has helped.  Continue Reading

• 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

• Crushed by the pace of technology change? Do these two things

  Is complexity killing your ability to keep up with the pace of technology change? Niel Nickolaisen offers a path forward.  Continue Reading

• 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

• Bimodal IT strategy opens up opportunities for innovation

  Mode 2 of a bimodal IT strategy can help organizations act more like a startup and tackle some high-risk, high-reward digital business moonshots.  Continue Reading