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IT Strategy

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9 investments CIOs should make before recession hits

In economic downturns, cost-cutting is essential. But so too is making the right IT investments, as IT can better position their organizations to weather lean times and come out ahead for the long run.

9 Aug 2022 7 mins
Budgeting IT Leadership IT Strategy
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XaaS isn’t everything — and it isn’t serviceable

‘Everything as a service’ doesn’t include every service IT provides, not to mention everything outside IT that can be characterized as a service. And what it leaves out is arguably more important than what it includes.

28 Jul 2022
IT Strategy
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What is value stream mapping? A lean technique for improving business processes

VSM is a lean management technique that helps businesses eliminate process redundancies and waste by finding ways to improve current lean and agile business processes.

22 Jul 2022 9 mins
IT Governance Frameworks IT Leadership IT Strategy
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How a new tech-based Swedish payments authority will fight grant fraud

Every year, around $1.8 billion (SEK18 billion) is incorrectly paid out of welfare systems in Sweden. But with the use of automation and data analytics, payments will be centralized and monitored at a new IT-based authority.

20 Jul 2022 5 mins
CIO Fraud Government
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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership.

15 Jul 2022 8 mins
IT Leadership IT Strategy Outsourcing
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7 tips for improving IT resilience in the digital era

In today’s IT world, resiliency means having the ability to deal with disruption without business interruption — all while delivering the experience users have come to expect from their tech.

11 Jul 2022 9 mins
IT Strategy Risk Management
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The XaaS trap: ‘Everything as a service’ isn’t anything IT really needs

Everything as a service (XaaS) should be about extending SOA to how businesses organize. Instead, it’s just another chargeback pricing model — exactly what IT doesn’t need.

30 Jun 2022
Cloud Computing IT Strategy
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IT leader’s survival guide: 11 ways to thrive in the years ahead

Agility and resiliency have become organizational essentials in rapidly changing and challenging times. Here is how to establish an IT organization built for long-term success.

8 Jun 2022 10 mins
IT Leadership IT Strategy
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10 ways inflation will impact IT

As inflation rises across the globe, CIOs are strategizing ways to navigate rising prices for IT supplies, services, and talent by rethinking IT portfolios, reprioritizing IT spend, and honing business efficiencies.

6 Jun 2022
Budgeting Hiring IT Strategy
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Streamlining IT for agility

IT leaders share their experiences and advice for overhauling IT for speed, including cutting down on projects, shifting to product-based delivery, and spurring a cultural transformation.

25 May 2022 12 mins
Digital Transformation IT Strategy Project Management