CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Here’s a quick rundown of seven major trends that will likely reshape your organization’s current data strategy in the days and months ahead.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

Taking any consultant’s guidance at face value is risky and potentially enterprise and career damaging. Before embracing any external advice on any IT or business issue, check out the following eight ways to determine whether a consultant is truly on track.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To ensure vendor relationship help their organizations achieve their goals, IT leaders should establish a comprehensive technology vendor management strategy focused on maximizing fit and value. It is also important to involve your key vendors in strategy and planning sessions related to their services or products,” Gilgour says.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In today’s business environment, regardless of the product or service, leaders must develop a well-honed business strategy. A successful business strategy must clearly define an organization’s objectives, decision-making processes and long-term business goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2023

Bringing in consultants to understand organizational dysfunction and make plans to remedy it can be a smart CIO move. But sometimes the consultants end up choosing sides. When that happens your consulting investments end up compounding the felony. Nearly every IT consultant has stories like ‘em. And the ones who don’t?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

“He’s a manager, not a leader,” my source explained to me, referring to the CIO in a disparaging tone of voice. Except for one thing: The CIO’s focus on management was, to use the technical term, a “good thing.” Except for one thing: The CIO’s focus on management was, to use the technical term, a “good thing.”

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A successful business strategy dictates the allocation of resources and outlines how a company will achieve its strategic goals. Whether the organization is focused on developing new products or marketing an existing service to an under-served demographic, having a solid strategy will help an organization realize its long-term goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2023

Consultants aren’t always held in the highest regard. Here are seven of the most pernicious consulting misdeeds you will encounter as an IT leader. They don’t deserve a CIO’s attention unless they recur, consultant overreactions notwithstanding. Selective ally promotion Not every IT manager is as good as they should be.

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BizAcuity

APRIL 1, 2023

This is where business intelligence consulting comes into the picture. In order to be effective, a BI solution must be aligned with the organizational strategy and business objectives and must be able to scale to support the changing needs of the business. Data governance and security measures are critical components of data strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. And it’s never too late for CIOs to reassess their cloud strategies.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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. What is an AI strategy? A successful AI strategy should act as a roadmap for this plan.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Against the backdrop of these uniquely American symbols, Timur would go on to participate in the “business of the country” first in the US Army deployed to Iraq, then as a consultant for public and foreign policy, and finally in his current role, enabling the public sector to solve challenges through Cloudera’s technology. .

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 21, 2022

Many of them have utilized many management programs but finding the most best application without the assistance of an experienced consultant can be a challenge. Some new consulting agencies specialize in helping companies select the best applications. Application development consulting services are a newer service.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Ever since the pandemic changed the corporate world, organizations have rededicated themselves to excelling at employee experience strategy. It usually involves executives and HR leaders producing a strong and employee-centric company culture, employee engagement and performance management in coordination with each other.

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BizAcuity

JANUARY 31, 2023

This is where business intelligence consulting comes into the picture. In order to be effective, a BI solution must be aligned with the organizational strategy and business objectives and must be able to scale to support the changing needs of the business. Data governance and security measures are critical components of data strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When I joined Graded IT to drive digital transformation, management was convinced of the centrality of change,” says Gennaro Ardolino, head of digital innovation and CISO of the Neapolitan energy saving company. Managers speak their own language and don’t always make the effort to understand the language of IT.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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. A procurement strategy is not merely a series of steps for acquiring goods and services. What is a procurement strategy?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2024

Project managers are the front-line officers of the modern white-collar workforce who plan and organize projects, and then shepherd them to completion, making sure they don’t take too long or run over budget. How much does a project manager earn? Project manager salaries vary widely by industry and geography.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2024

Stakeholder management is vital to project success. Many project managers struggle to implement effective stakeholder management, despite its importance. IT can’t be successful without good stakeholder coordination and management,” says Barry Brunsman, a principal in advisory at KPMG, a professional services firm.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

For some, consulting is the way to go, whether through the creation of their own advisory firm or joining an existing consultancy. IT leaders who have shifted to a consulting role say it can be a rewarding way to leverage their considerable knowledge of technology and business to provide guidance to others.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2023

According to the MIT Technology Review Insights Survey, an enterprise data strategy supports vital business objectives including expanding sales, improving operational efficiency, and reducing time to market. The problem is today, just 13% of organizations excel at delivering on their data strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

“When hiring a CTO, you’re looking for a technologist, a technology architect, an innovator, and someone who can enhance the company’s products for customers while partnering with the CIO,” says Ash Athawale, senior vice president and senior group managing director for the executive search practice group at Robert Half.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2022

But succeeding in the cloud can be complex, and CIOs have continued to fumble their cloud strategies in 2022 in a variety of ways, industry observers say. We have continued to evolve our cloud strategy as we gain more insight into the leverage we can gain in engineering, resilience, scaling, security, and market testing.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Moreover, most enterprise cloud strategies involve a variety of cloud vendors, including point-solution SaaS vendors operating in the cloud. I don’t see a downside in asking for that,” says Brian Levine, managing director of cybersecurity for Ernst & Young. They want their own team to manage everything. Probably not.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Moving with caution The AI genie is out of the bottle, and while it’ll take more time for the widespread digital revolution promised by some overly-enthusiastic technology vendors and consultants to occur, AI will continue to transform businesses in ways we can’t yet imagine.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 16, 2024

A finely tuned product development strategy is a holistic, cross-collaborative endeavor with the capacity to help any organization weather unforeseen events or market changes. Why is a strong product development strategy important? Consumers have access to more information than ever to compare products and brands.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 30, 2024

To overcome various challenges associated with multicloud , organizations need to map out a comprehensive multicloud management strategy to achieve overall success. While each multicloud journey is unique, here are eight fundamental steps for creating a successful multicloud strategy: 1. What is multicloud architecture?

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 29, 2024

This post explores the deployment of Apache Ranger for permission management within the Hadoop ecosystem on Amazon EKS. We show how Ranger integrates with Hadoop components like Apache Hive, Spark, Trino, Yarn, and HDFS, providing secure and efficient data management in a cloud environment.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Customer experience strategy (CX strategy) is when organizations optimize customer engagements to create happy customers, drive customer loyalty and help to recruit new customers. Seven hallmarks of a successful customer experience strategy Customer experience requires the right strategy and dedicated actions to drive success.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 29, 2024

An effective customer retention strategy should support the company to maintain a healthy stable of loyal customers and bring in new customers. Those that understand the importance of customer retention will invest in the necessary customer experience management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

What is a managed service provider? Managed service provider business model Managed service providers structure their business to offer technology services cheaper than what it would cost an enterprise to perform the work itself, at a higher level of quality, and with more flexibility and scalability.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 12, 2023

To thrive, project managers need to have and hone a complex combination of technical, business, and interpersonal skills. Effective project managers must know how to define the scope of a project , identify necessary resources, and schedule those resources — all part of the technical aspect of the job.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

And with the help of IBM Consulting, the RA is rapidly transforming the member experience. To help, the Academy turned to IBM Consulting™ , which optimized their use of the Salesforce Experience Cloud and Salesforce Marketing Cloud platforms as part of a broader digital transformation. “This is the digital age.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Talent acquisition refers to the ongoing strategy and process an organization and its HR department uses to source, attract, evaluate, hire and retain the highly-qualified new employees it needs to grow. A well-crafted talent acquisition strategy has become a critical component for organizations seeking to secure a competitive edge.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 4, 2024

Business Process Management (BPM) is a systematic approach to managing and streamlining business processes. Conversely, it has a larger scope than task management, which deals with individual tasks, and project management, which handles one-time initiatives. BPM is often confused with other seemingly similar initiatives.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2023

Those principles, along with lessons learned during recent years, have helped Pfeiffer sharpen her tech strategy for supporting hybrid work in 2023. Turning to tech for seamless continuity Abhijit Mazumder, CIO at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is similarly looking to how his IT team can improve the hybrid experience it has already enabled.

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