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How to Optimally Align IT with Your Business Processes?

Strategy Driven

Structuring business information is also referred to as enterprise architecture. How Does Enterprise Architecture Add Value? The market a company operates in should also be taken into account for enterprise architecture. In order for enterprise architecture to be effective, a company must be agile.

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CMOs and CIOs Need to Get Along to Make Big Data Work

Harvard Business Review

Variations of this Big Data story line are being played out in executive offices around the world, with CMOs and CIOs in the thick of it. CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives.

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

Harvard Business Review

From my experience, I believe that there are four highly interdependent categories of contributions the CIO and IT function should make. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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The IT Project That Brought a Bank to Its Knees

Harvard Business Review

We have developed a simple yet powerful framework that leadership teams can use to navigate the digital landscape and avoid the kinds of problems that Co-operative Bank suffered. Because this question is usually thought of as relating to technical architecture, it is generally considered by CEOs as a technical issue and the domain of the CIO.

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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. CIOs who don’t empower their workforce become disempowered. company. .”

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