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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

As CIOs prepare for the next wave of digital transformation, they must demonstrate shorter-term business impacts from technology investments and achieve larger innovation goals that evolve the organization’s business model.

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10 digital transformation roadblocks — and 5 tips for overcoming them

CIO Business Intelligence

So if you are seeking to lead transformational change at your organization, it’s worth knowing the 10 most common reasons why digital transformation fails and what you as an IT leader can learn from those failures. Resistance to change Change is hard, and digital transformation requires a lot of it.

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What is digital transformation? A necessary disruption

CIO Business Intelligence

Once a vanguard business strategy, digital transformation has become a perennial objective for business survival. Digital transformation is the integration of digital technologies into all aspects of business operations.

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5 signs your agile practices will lead to digital disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

But speaking to many IT leaders, there are often gaps between how IT runs Scrum, Kanban, or other agile practices and what CIOs need in order to achieve digital transformation objectives. We discussed how many agile teams focus on rituals without truly understanding the manifesto’s objectives or the organization’s goals.

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5 key mistakes IT leaders make at board meetings

CIO Business Intelligence

When presenting, you’ll need to win over board members by doing your homework, communicating in business language, and practicing the presentation. They resort to scare tactics or security risks We all know the saying “Never waste a crisis” as a tool to bring attention to the big investments no one wants to make.

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Why CIOs back API governance to avoid tech sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Digital transformation and growing reliance on third-party services are key contributors as well, she adds. With more APIs, additional effort is required to maintain design consistency and reduce scalability and end-user experience concerns — not to mention the added security risks stemming from a widened surface area. “It

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The promise, peril, and potential of the metaverse

CIO Business Intelligence

With this objective in mind: Determine your organization’s innovation appetite (versus its risk appetite; it is too early to speak of ROI in the metaverse). Align on a business objective for the metaverse: Are we trying to engage a specific customer population? Are we trying to improve efficiency?