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What is enterprise architecture? A framework for transformation

CIO

Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. Another main priority with EA is agility and ensuring that your EA strategy has a strong focus on agility and agile adoption.

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8 tips for cultivating a winning IT culture

CIO

Foster adaptability and flexibility Adaptable work environments and agile methodologies form the bedrock of a thriving IT culture, says Charman Hayes, executive vice president of people and capability for the technology group at Mastercard. He recommends following a coaching and feedback model.

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Think in Systems to Propel Your Transformation

CIO

First, let me outline the context of what a system is before illustrating how your organization can propel the transformation towards a digital- and sustainable-first enterprise with system thinking. Commonly, these agendas target distinct objectives such as productivity, agility, or efficiency, and they are related to and within each other.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget. In this quarter, 74% of large enterprises report having FinOps teams and processes in place, up from 61% in 2022,” he says. Whether agile should include FinOps or not is a matter of debate,” he says.

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10 tips for modernizing legacy apps for the cloud

CIO

To fully capitalize on the cloud’s scalability and flexibility, most enterprises go beyond a simple lift-and-shift approach, instead injecting them with cloud-native capabilities — a strategy that sounds simple but can quickly prove complex. After all, as with many seemingly easy tasks, the devil is in the details.

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5 key mistakes IT leaders make at board meetings

CIO

While these numbers suggest a significant technical and security gap on the boards of large enterprises, it would be a mistake for a CIO or CISO to assume their board lacks digital, data, security, or other technical acumen. Nothing baffles the board more than a long string of techno-babble mumbo-jumbo.”

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Shaping the Future with Business Agility

Accenture

Agility, once the domain of product development organizations and IT, has moved out of this realm and into business overall as companies face an ever more uncertain world. Evan Campbell – Managing Director and CTO, Accenture | SolutionsIQ. Share Your Business Agility Journey. Business Agility Report Over the Years.

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