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The IT Project That Brought a Bank to Its Knees

Harvard Business Review

Sir Christopher Kelly, a former British senior civil servant, recently produced a damning report , which reviewed the events that led to the £1.5 The factors contributing to the failure cited in the report are ones that we all too frequently have encountered when we have reviewed challenged or failed projects. hedge funds.

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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

P&G''s Connect and Develop ) to increase velocity and quality of their new product introductions, the IT infrastructure support for this business process change is critical. A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG).

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3 Ways to Get More Value from Automation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM PWC’s Strategy&

Harvard Business Review

There’s still much to learn when it comes to digitizing business processes, and in particular using automation sprints—those smart, fast, and small efforts you use to boost productivity when a change to enterprise architecture isn’t the right step. No longer will all developers be assigned to project work.

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Share Your Own Job-Search Story

Harvard Business Review

It demands specific skills and you need to develop these skills to win the game.". That said, the words of Professor Salahudheen still remained true, "Job hunting demands specific skills, and you need to develop these skills to win the game.". It's nothing like scoring marks in university. Twitter also proved to be very useful.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Let's review the distinguishing features of what each religion has to say about sustaining improvement. BPM missionaries say processes and process knowledge embedded in software, an enterprise architecture, and a central process management organization sustain improvement.

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Bridging the Gap Between Marketing and IT

Harvard Business Review

One of the common divides is that the former is focused on adopting the latest technologies, while the latter is focused on governance, security, and enterprise architecture. If the marketing team is developing a strategy to advance client needs, the IT team helps prioritize those needs based on the requirements of the infrastructure.

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IT Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Its Users

Harvard Business Review

It’s not about consumer apps being used for work, and it’s not just about enterprise apps taking on more consumer-like characteristics. The enterprise architecture of the future needs to invert traditional thinking. Some call this “consumerization of IT”, but this descriptor mostly misses to the point.

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