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What is a business analyst? A key role for business-IT efficiency

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The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a nonprofit professional association, considers the business analyst “an agent of change,” writing that business analysis “is a disciplined approach for introducing and managing change to organizations, whether they are for-profit businesses, governments, or non-profits.”

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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

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Modern digital organisations tend to use an agile approach to delivery, with cross-functional teams, product-based operating models , and persistent funding. But to deliver transformative initiatives, CIOs need to embrace the agile, product-based approach, and that means convincing the CFO to switch to a persistent funding model.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

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“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization

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In almost every case, there’s an increased need for data insight and technology-enabled agility to reaffirm technology’s position at the center of investment strategy in order to achieve organizational growth. Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily.

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10 digital transformation roadblocks — and 5 tips for overcoming them

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5, Insufficient budget Digital transformation can be expensive, and executive leadership teams that do not allocate enough budget to the initiative may struggle to succeed. It requires a different mindset, as well as an agile, ready-to-experiment workforce that is change-savvy.

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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

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Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Risk management: Perform qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, plan risk mitigation strategies. Project budgets Budgets play a large role in whether a project progresses, or if it can be completed. Budget for surprises. Develop relevant KPIs.