Tips

Tips

Digital business management

• Bad data stops business process transformation in its tracks

  Dan Morris introduces his new eight-part series on exploring how bad data can sabotage business process transformation and what CIOs need to do to fix it.  Continue Reading

• How to measure usability when selecting an RPA tool

  If an RPA tool isn't user-friendly and isn't built for the long term, chances are the dividends won't be immediate. Read this before choosing your RPA tools.  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

• How to create the best RPA architecture

  Enterprises are embracing robotic process automation to automate rules-based, repetitive tasks in a cost-efficient manner. ROI depends on having the right RPA architecture.  Continue Reading

• Digital transformation plan: RPA and BPMS tools, better together

  A sound digital transformation plan gives companies the ability to change quickly. Business process management suites and robotic process automation -- used together -- do that.  Continue Reading

• Blockchain implementation: Connecting the missing DLT links

  Blockchain implementation is helping streamline governance processes, but a few questions must be answered first to take full advantage of distributed ledger technology.  Continue Reading

• Your digital transformation initiative is probably not future-proof

  A digital transformation initiative will fail if you simply dump new tech into an old tech black box, says expert Dan Morris. His readiness checklist points the way forward.  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

• Compliance battle over digital ownership has begun

  Rules defining digital ownership will dictate how the data-based economy evolves. CIOs should get ahead of data asset management before competitors write rules to their advantage.  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

• 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

• 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