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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO

Over the past decade, CIOs have invested significantly in digital transformation initiatives in an effort to improve customer experiences, build data analytics capabilities, and deliver productivity enhancements with automation. Unfortunately, the business impact of many digital transformations continues to fall short of expectations.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

Solutions architect Solutions architects are responsible for building, developing, and implementing systems architecture within an organization, ensuring that they meet business or customer needs. They’re also charged with assessing a business’ current system architecture, and identifying solutions to improve, change, and modernize it.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Split systems along arbitrary boundaries: maximize the number of systems involved in any feature. Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes” Introduce very complex processes for code change and common workflows.

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Agile project management: Principles, benefits, tools, tips, and when to make the switch

CIO

Agile project management is most effective when a project’s requirements are not fully discernible from the outset or are likely to evolve over the project’s duration. Agile may not work as intended if a customer is not clear on goals, the project manager or team is inexperienced, or if they do not function well under significant pressure.

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Letting change and uncertainty advance your software architecture

CircleCI

Three such themes are: deferring the need to handle change, thinking like a product manager, and keeping your head up. How do we design our systems in a manner that can adapt and change to things that don’t even exist when we start building it? Design architecture to solve problems. Change is a constant in technology.

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A comparative assessment of digital transformation in Italy

CIO

Finally, the flow of AMA reports and activities generates a lot of data for the SAP system, and to be more effective, we’ll start managing it with data and business intelligence.” The owners, CEO, and CIO have launched a review of the operating model in which the technology implementations fit.

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

I should start by saying this section does not offer a treatise on how to do architecture. Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. By 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article by Thomas Davenport and D.J. It must be useful, have utility.