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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

While almost all business units, such as HR and sales, have started working more closely with IT, we have become especially interested in the marketing-IT relationship because we’ve seen firsthand just how much of marketing is increasingly powered by technology. Align your vision.

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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. In all this table-pounding is a central truth in today’s Big Data world: both the CMO and CIO are on the hook for turning all that data into above-market growth. Two months later, the bids were coming in 400 percent over budget.

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