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4 hidden risks of your enterprise cloud strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

While cloud risk analysis should be no different than any other third-party risk analysis, many enterprises treat the cloud more gently, taking a less thorough approach. Moreover, most enterprise cloud strategies involve a variety of cloud vendors, including point-solution SaaS vendors operating in the cloud.

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CIO risk-taking 101: Playing it safe isn’t safe

CIO Business Intelligence

As CIO, you’re in the risk business. Or rather, every part of your responsibilities entails risk, whether you’re paying attention to it or not. There are, for example, those in leadership roles who, while promoting the value of risk-taking, also insist on “holding people accountable.” You can’t lose.

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How to build a successful risk mitigation strategy

IBM Big Data Hub

.” This same sentiment can be true when it comes to a successful risk mitigation plan. The only way for effective risk reduction is for an organization to use a step-by-step risk mitigation strategy to sort and manage risk, ensuring the organization has a business continuity plan in place for unexpected events.

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Want to tackle technical debt? Sell it as business risk

CIO Business Intelligence

What CIOs need to do instead is to present IT infrastructure investment as an important corporate financial and risk management issue that the business can’t afford to ignore. From a financial and risk management standpoint, the building is a useless (and hazardous) asset that must be written off the books and remedied.

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Successful Change Management with Enterprise Risk Management

Speaker: William Hord, Vice President of ERM Services

Your ERM program generally assesses and maintains detailed information related to strategy, operations, and the remediation plans needed to mitigate the impact on the organization. Organize ERM strategy, operations, and data. It is the tangents of this data that are vital to a successful change management process.

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Risk Management for AI Chatbots

O'Reilly on Data

Welcome to your company’s new AI risk management nightmare. Before you give up on your dreams of releasing an AI chatbot, remember: no risk, no reward. The core idea of risk management is that you don’t win by saying “no” to everything. So, what do you do? I’ll share some ideas for mitigation.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

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. There are other risks, too. Why are we really going to cloud?

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Serverless and Containers: How to Choose the Right Application Strategy

Speaker: Tolga Tarhan, Senior Vice President, GM AWS Services at Onica

How to make the right architectural choices given particular application patterns and risks. When it comes to the modern tech stack, one of the fastest changing areas is around containers, serverless, and choosing the ideal path to cloud native computing. Tradeoffs and key considerations for when to leverage Containers or Serverless.