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By: A Staff Writer
Date: Mar 22, 2024
Rationalizing Your Application Portfolio It's Spring – time for some spring cleaning! So please dive into the enterprise applications landscape and consider how to prune it. This process, called Application Portfolio Rationalization or APR, allows CIOs to reduce costs while reducing risk and optimiz...
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Date: Aug 19, 2023
Technology Industry Moral and Ethical Dilemmas. With its rapid growth and evolving capabilities, the technology industry has brought numerous moral, ethical, and legal challenges. Here is a comprehensive list of some of these conundrums and dilemmas: Moral and Ethical Dilemmas: Privacy Concerns: What it is: The coll...
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Date: Aug 19, 2023
Micro and Mini Transformations: The Unsung Strategy for Corporate Leapfrogs In today's fast-paced corporate world, companies constantly seek strategies to stay ahead. The landscape is rife with tales of massive IT overhauls that can rival the GDP of small countries. At the same time, there's a tempta...
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Date: Aug 17, 2023
Nine Follies Cloud Architects Commit. Nine follies cloud architects commit is a list of mistakes cloud architects make and best practices and prevention strategies to mitigate the potential risks. In the ever-evolving digital transformation landscape, Cloud Architects play a pivotal role, orchestrat...
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Date: Aug 17, 2023
Nine Follies CISOs Commit In the modern digital era, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) role has never been more critical. Entrusted with safeguarding the organization's crown jewels—its data and systems—CISOs are the sentinels standing guard against a continuously evolving threat ...
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Date: Aug 17, 2023
Nine Follies CDOs Commit: Nine follies CDOs commit is a part of our follies series. In the era of digitization and data-centric decision-making, Chief Data Officers (CDOs) have risen to the forefront, wielding considerable influence over the trajectory of enterprise transformation. With the respons...
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Date: Aug 16, 2023
Nine Follies CIOs Commit The following nine follies CIOs commit is an exploration of mistakes and issues that occur inadvertently or without due consideration. In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has never been more critical. Their posi...
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Date: Jul 21, 2023
Enterprise Technology Cost-Saving Ideas Companies face a tough balancing act as the global economic landscape grapples with high inflation, an impending recession, and margin pressures. On the one hand, the need to curtail costs is increasingly pressing. Still, on the other, it's crucial to continue...
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Date: Jul 18, 2023
IT Product Model is a foundational organizing framework to align the technology team with business strategy and objectives. We aim to demystify the innovative IT Product Model and illuminate how it's transforming the world of information technology (IT) in businesses large and small. Definition of the IT P...
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Date: Jun 05, 2023
Criticality of Post-Merger IT Integration In the complex dance of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), Information Technology (IT) plays a pivotal role that extends far beyond the underlying systems and infrastructure. The integration of IT has profound implications on strategic alignment, operational ef...
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Date: Jan 03, 2023
Let's assume you are an IT professional and want to boost your IT career. We want to help you get there. So here are some ideas we put together strategies to give your career in IT the boost it needs. From simple tips on how to network effectively to more complex advice on developing your skillset, these...
Read More...By: Ciopages Staff Writer
Date: Jan 02, 2023
Cloud FinOps is a vital capability for most large enterprises. As companies embark on moving all applications and operations to the cloud, cloud operations and cost control are emerging as critical disciplines. Enterprises are increasingly dependent on multiple cloud providers, and things can spiral...
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Date: Dec 20, 2022
Do you experience IT Purchase Regret? If so, you are not alone. Given the inflationary environment, and the potential threat of recession on the horizon, capital spending on technology acquisition is a mission-critical decision. Unfortunately, corporate buyers of enterprise software often have buyer's...
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Date: Sep 10, 2018
HCM strategic transformation (or HR strategic transformation) has implications on the overall enterprise, not just the human resources function. Before embarking on the HCM transformation initiatives, here are the critical questions to ask and answer. Essential Questions regarding HCM Strategic Tra...
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Date: Sep 21, 2017
Talking with Global 2000 CFOs and other business/technology leaders about transforming the finance organization, here are the typical finance transformation outcomes enterprises are striving towards. There is nothing highfalutin there, but the simple finance transformation outcomes sought by fi...
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Date: May 10, 2017
The business requirements gathering methods are a dime a dozen, and there is no universal answer to what is right. It is par for the course, and different strokes for different folks. It depends on the SDLC methodology, the type of project, the level of complexity, whether it is buying or building, and...
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Date: Apr 05, 2017
The CRM Software Adoption checklist is a simple yet important set of principles, practices, and perspectives an enterprise should consider during a CRM transformation project. There are many reasons CRM transformation programs fail and one of the key reasons is the lack of adoption among the k...
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Date: Oct 29, 2016
Supply Chain Software Implementation Considerations: Selecting and implementing supply chain software for an enterprise is a major decision, and not just because these kinds of applications require significant resources to set up. The software application that a company selects will manage the ...
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Date: Oct 29, 2016
Accounting and Finance Software Implementation Considerations: As your company implements new accounting and finance software, it embarks on a transformation that goes beyond the software itself. This sort of organizational shift comes with an array of implementation challenges and failure risks, but if ...
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Date: Oct 15, 2016
Optimizing the Omni-channel experience is not an easy task. Examples galore where major companies fail to provide the level of omni-channel experience many digitally savvy customers expect. A globalized economy pushes competition to new heights. While this is often good for consumers, it forces major...
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Date: Oct 15, 2016
To be successful in today's omnichannel world, UXD beyond visual design for enterprises is a critical success factor. Throughout the 1990's and into the early part of the 21st century, visual design became one of the driving design decisions when it came to the user experience. UI was unintuitive...
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Date: Oct 15, 2016
SLAs (Service Level Agreements) can feel generous when you're negotiating a contract, but when you get into the thick of execution, they can easily leave you wanting more. Processes enter a cycle of continual improvement and begin to flow more smoothly, allowing room for optimization of the pl...
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Date: Oct 15, 2016
Before making a significant investment or changing the process, it is a good idea to understand the Pros and Cons of Software Test Automation. The technology world moves at lightning fast speeds. Technology companies are under constant pressure to release new products and updates regularly. The buyi...
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Date: Oct 13, 2016
What do the first 100 days of a new CIO look like and should look like? While people know that the role of Chief Information Officer is integral to the success of the company, so much of what a CIO does to keep the business running occurs behind the scenes or at a level which most employees an...
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Date: Oct 13, 2016
Is it possible to assemble an ERP platform with best of breed applications? It depends! A number of terms are being thrown around these days in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) world, one of them being “best of breed.” This moniker refers to the identification of a software package for ...
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Date: Sep 20, 2016
Application Portfolio Rationalization is not just a buzz word, and it is not just for mega corporations – it is a business imperative that needs to be tackled head-on by more small and medium sized businesses as well as the very large. application portfolio rationalization can improve your bottom line ...
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