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Recommended Key Initiative Plan
These 9 initiatives have been found to elicit the most significant measurable impact for professionals in this role.
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People & Leadership
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May 06, 2020
Virtual work arrangements are increasing, and in many organizations having virtual team members is business as usual. Training managers to become m...
April 28, 2020
COVID-19 has led to a sudden shift to working from home (WFH), resulting in a 72% decline in in-office work (Ranosa, 2020). While these uncertain t...
April 20, 2020
Employee disengagement is a huge risk during the COVID-19 pandemic and has the potential to hinder both long-term and short-term organizational via...
April 19, 2020
When the economy is negatively influenced by factors beyond any organization’s control, the impact can be felt almost immediately on the bottom lin...
April 14, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis like no other. The economic impacts and labor disruptions are keeping HR leaders focused on damage control and wo...
April 08, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many organizations to make sudden changes to the way they conduct work. Many organizations that don’t normally wor...
March 26, 2020
COVID-19 has changed work arrangements for the majority of the workforce. With more employees working from home, taking leave, and having to modify...
March 20, 2020
Don't let panic negate the need for privacy best practices. Keep privacy at the core of your pandemic response plan and build a program that is tim...
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Strategy & Governance
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May 20, 2020
The concept of distributed trust in technology design has become even more important as mobile contact tracing apps emerge as a tool to help fight ...
May 19, 2020
While the impacts are still highly uncertain, there are tactics that innovation teams can be pursuing to help their organizations through this peri...
April 21, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI), as a collection of techniques rather than a singular technique, sits at various levels of expectation and deployment ...
April 13, 2020
COVID-19 is a daunting threat for virtually every organization – but an updated approach to budget and cost management will help the organization b...
March 31, 2020
The speed at which IT leaders need to reduce costs is unprecedented. IT faces a momentous challenge to identify and prioritize cost-reduction measu...
February 24, 2020
More than 80% of the larger enterprises we’ve worked with start out wanting to develop advanced Service Management processes without having the cul...
February 10, 2020
If we are to realize the business value through the adoption of emerging technologies, CIOs must address significant challenges. We believe address...
January 31, 2020
Smart contracts are revolutionizing the fundamental way people and businesses transact. Traditional methods of recording transactions and contracts...
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Value & Performance
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April 30, 2020
Many organizations have metrics and dashboards that help them control their performance. During a crisis like a pandemic, the rules have suddenly c...
February 28, 2020
There are many misconceptions about Lean management and people are often overwhelmed by all the tools and Japanese terminology for what are essenti...
June 15, 2018
CIOs need to take charge of the IT value proposition, increasing the impact and strategic role of IT. Use your IT update presentation to focus deci...
June 05, 2018
Business relationship management (BRM) is not just a communication conduit between IT and the business. When implemented properly, a BRM is a value...
October 18, 2017
To properly allocate project work and establish more stable project timelines, PMOs and portfolio managers need to develop a reasonable and managea...
June 14, 2017
With the right PPM strategy, IT leaders can enable executive decision makers to make sense of the excess of project demand and prioritize those ini...
March 21, 2017
IT investment decisions are made without a shared perspective of value, resulting in cost misallocation and unexploited opportunities to improve ef...
July 13, 2016
Completed projects aren’t necessarily successful projects. Projects are justified because they will make the organization money, save money, or mak...