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Unlocking Automation for Intelligent Operations and Business Growth

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Yet modernization journeys are often bumpy; IT leaders must overcome barriers such as resistance to change, management complexity, high costs, and talent shortages. Its ambition to enable automation across the entire enterprise, at that point in time, felt unattainable as it lacked the technical expertise and capabilities to do so.

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What is change management? A guide to organizational transformation

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What is the main purpose of change management? In modern IT, change management has many different guises. Project managers view change management as the process used to obtain approval for changes to the scope, timeline, or budget of a project. What are the benefits of change management?

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

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She then taps those individuals, finding that their energy and enthusiasm help them quickly master and apply whatever new skills are needed and, thus, help move the project forward at an accelerated pace. Digital Transformation, Enterprise Applications, IT Strategy, Software Development

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In transition: How Kyndryl’s CIO weaned the company off IBM’s systems

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For those non-differentiating capabilities, you shouldn’t spend a lot of energy; you should do the base configuration and then shift the business toward the different solutions.” Application Management, CIO, Enterprise Architecture, IBM, IT Leadership, IT Management, Mainframes, SAP

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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

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There was a lot of change management, getting them to agree,” he says. If you compare a virtual private cloud in a dedicated data center to a hyperscaler, byte for byte, CPU cycle for CPU cycle, there are significant greenhouse gas emission reductions, as well as energy consumption benefits,” he says.

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Giant Eagle CIO Kirk Ball’s recipe for digital transformation success

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Many times, those activities across an enterprise will not be in alignment, which then results in conflicting solutions, too much spend, and organizational confusion. So, what could go wrong with the implementation of a digital transformation for a company when new technologies, new strategies, and cultural change are involved?

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5 steps to drive and foster innovation in IT

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This is especially critical within physical operations – the industries that drive more than 40% of the global GDP – as organizations like ABF Freight and Liberty Energy look for ways to operate more efficiently, gain end-to-end visibility, and focus on a sustainability agenda.