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

Harvard Business Review

As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., A second new component of the IT function should be dedicated to this category of work: the Enterprise Integration Group (EIG). Additional challenges come from "localization" requirements in many countries.

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

Harvard Business Review

Recently, a financial services organization found $5 million in opportunities to optimize its finance processes. Typically they end up as an app or a custom feature in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. We know some companies hope to wait on the benefits of automation until their next big systems upgrade.

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IT Can No Longer Afford to Ignore Its Users

Harvard Business Review

During these decades, IT organizations retained nearly complete control of the technology architecture, and with little to challenge them. Bob in Finance simply didn’t bring his own mainframe to work. the complexity and cost of enterprise software ensured that the IT model remained enterprise-centric.

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