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IT Cannot Be Only the CIO's Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

Of course, this response would be fine if the challenge were merely to deploy technology (on time and to budget) and ensure it continues to function properly for as long as required. Technology? This only results in technology being deployed on time and to budget and works. IT management Information & technology'

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Big Data Doesn't Work if You Ignore the Small Things that Matter

Harvard Business Review

Companies would do better at satisfying and retaining customers if they spent less time worrying about big data and more time making good use of "small data" — already-available information from simple technology solutions — to become more flexible, informative, and helpful. I'm not saying that all big-data projects are useless.

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You, Too, Can Move Your Company Into the Cloud

Harvard Business Review

The US Navy is an organization utilizing 1,400 systems and 7,000 applications to serve more than 500,000 employees. While the USN is relatively mum about its specific strategies, there are references to the fact that they intend to cut their systems in half within 36 months, reducing some overhead cost and modernizing. 017%,019% and.00028%

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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

And finally, does the operating model support the company’s strategic mission with the right combination of people, process, technology, and tools? Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? None of these are easy questions. Yet change they must.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Executives who wouldn’t hesitate to automate a factory now flinch at the prospect of deep-learning algorithms dictating their sales strategies and capex. In theory, the organizational challenges of algorithmic autonomy map perfectly to which processes or systems are being made autonomous. All-In Autonomy.