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How to build a successful procurement strategy

IBM Big Data Hub

A procurement strategy allows an organization to navigate an increasingly complex global supply chain, adapt swiftly to market fluctuations, and achieve cost optimization, operational efficiency and growth. This enables an effective and adaptive approach to sourcing that creates value and minimizes risk.

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How to build a successful AI strategy

IBM Big Data Hub

Without an AI strategy, organizations risk missing out on the benefits AI can offer. An AI strategy helps organizations address the complex challenges associated with AI implementation and define its objectives. List issues AI can address and the benefits to be gained. What metrics need to be improved?

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO Business Intelligence

“AI is showing up in every software package and in every technology, particularly generative AI,” says Dan Diasio, global AI consulting leader at EY, while some vendors, such as Microsoft, have made AI core to their software. Production is another area that benefits from AI. “At Webster Bank is following a similar strategy.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO Business Intelligence

These IT pros can also help organizations avoid potential risks around cloud security, while ensuring a smooth transition to the cloud across the company. These pros are experts in the cloud and stay on top of the latest innovations in cloud technology to better advise business leaders.

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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

CIO Business Intelligence

As organizations of all stripes continue their migration to the cloud, they are coming face to face with sometimes perplexing cost issues, forcing them to think hard about how best to optimize workloads, what to migrate, and who exactly is responsible for what. Lacking a clear strategy determined by business objectives.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Equally important, the documented vision is a tool for agile teams to make implementation decisions when there are multiple ways to solve problems, each with different benefits and tradeoffs. Business leaders get scared and say, ‘Tell me the plan so I can sleep at night,’” said Ronica Roth, co-founder and principal of The Welcome Elephant.

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Simplifying IT strategy: How to avoid the annual planning panic

CIO Business Intelligence

What major challenges and risks stand between the current state and the vision? Clarify how they will obstruct your achieving the IT vision and any overarching business objectives. How much will it cost? Bringing it together Once you’ve tried answering the questions, consult your deputies. Not sure where to start?