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It’s not necessary for a CEO of a company to be able to write Java code or master the intricacies of an ERP or sales compensation application. However, that CEO must master the basics of IT just as he must understand basic corporate finance, the production process and – at least at a high level – the technologies that support that process.[read more]

Heiler and its customers recognize the need to provide better access to product information inside the enterprise and out to the broader business network of customers, partners, suppliers and manufacturers.[read more]

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Unfortunately Salesforce, like other companies that deliver applications and platforms in the cloud, has failed to advance interchanges with data in on-premises enterprise applications and systems. Managing data in the cloud can have significant process benefits, such as improving data quality and reducing resources to establish and maintain the cloud effort.[read more]

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Enterprise IT professionals, including public CIOs, have long recognized the power of data, and the exciting new sense-making capabilities around big data approaches have generated a great deal of buzz and excitement. If history is a guide, however, we are about to see that term lose much of its meaning.[read more]

In most organizations, information management is seen as just a delegated set of tasks and is not the CIO’s top priority. This unfortunate outlook can have a lasting impact on the efficiency and profitability of a business.[read more]

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After years of careful observation, I have reached the sincere conclusion that the role of Chief Information Officer is not only redundant but was never really needed. I believe therefore that we should immediately scrap the role of Chief Information Officer and create instead a genuinely useful CIO role: that of Chief Integration Officer.[read more]

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A majority of business leaders believe their information technology functions are on the verge of a major, impending disruption, and 43% say their company will increasingly use IT “as a commodity service that is bought as and when needed.”[read more]

Consider a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers that notes that business analytics can mean that the “IT organization can become the go-to group, and the CIO can become the true information leader,”[read more]

BPM has been an interesting case study for Decision Management on the Cloud, as it is a sister technology with a wider adoption in the Enterprise world, and, predictably, a wider mind-share in Cloud solutions. My objective here is to share some of the key benefits that the cloud certainly brings to Decision Management practitioners.[read more]

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Marketing budgets are now larger than IT budgets & growing faster says Gartner. By 2017, Gartner says that CMO’s will spend more on IT than CIO’s.   Interesting how marketing is getting more & more dependent on technology.And yet the Marketer’s perception of internal IT is not very positive. The same Gartner survey has...[read more]

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What will the role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) look like in 2020? The CIO role is one that really appeared during the 1990s in response to the increasing profile of Information Technology (IT) in organisations.  Previously, the person in charge of IT was usually called an Information Technology, Information Services or...[read more]

"Gartner analysts are predicting that by the year 2015, 35% of enterprise IT expenditures for most organizations will be managed outside the IT department’s budget. 'Next generation digital enterprises are being driven by a new wave of business managers and individual employees who no longer need technology to be contextualized for them by an IT department,' the report states."[read more]

"Still, most CIOs can't just yank out their existing IT infrastructures and move to the cloud. Optimizing legacy infrastructure while freeing up funding for more strategic initiatives is a key challenge for CIOs. When Constellation Research published a report listing four personas CIOs would need to master — chief infrastructure officer, chief intelligence officer, chief integration officer and chief innovation officer — Constellation CEO Ray Wang noted infrastructure still commands the lion's share of the budget, 65 percent to 70 percent."[read more]

"Getting boards of directors interested in and actively involved with IT issues has long been seen as a challenge for CIOs. But it's an imperative as IT has become such an integral part of overall corporate strategy at most, if not all, companies."[read more]

"The CIO has been a fixture in the corporate office for nearly three decades, yet the gulf between this discipline and the Lines of Business seems to be getting wider. In fact, the more IT spends, the less seems to be the understanding with other departments. "[read more]