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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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Bridging the Gap Between Marketing and IT

Harvard Business Review

Marketing executives are being tasked with leveraging technology to improve customer experience, drive client growth, and meet loyalty goals. Yet marketing and IT executives often don’t speak the same language or understand each other’s goals or roadmaps. Align your vision. Overcommunicate.

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

Harvard Business Review

But no one was sure what to cut and what to keep because the goals had not been clearly enough defined. A successful partnership, therefore, begins with the CMO being able to define business goals, use cases, and specific requirements of any data or analytics initiative. The solution? Cut back the scope. Learn to drive before you fly.

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