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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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July 14, 2020
There is a statistically significant relationship between analytics used and overall effectiveness for IT departments, but IT leaders know they are...
July 08, 2020
COVID-19 pushed organizations that were previously resistant into an immediate work-from-home experiment. Speed was the priority, so the support an...
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...
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Strategy & Governance
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July 14, 2020
There is a statistically significant relationship between analytics used and overall effectiveness for IT departments, but IT leaders know they are...
July 14, 2020
This blueprint outlines the opportunity for impact that blockchain has for supply chain transparency, how manufacturers are investing, and what you...
July 06, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis demands solutions, and some technologists might insist it's time to move fast and break things. But building new technologies w...
June 12, 2020
In our 2020 Tech Trend Report, we discussed the concept of building out the autonomous edge as a competitive differentiator. The COVID-19 pandemic ...
June 05, 2020
Large organizations end up creating bureaucracies, which slow down the pace of innovation. An antidote to bureaucracy is a platform structure: smal...
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 ...
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Value & Performance
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July 14, 2020
There is a statistically significant relationship between analytics used and overall effectiveness for IT departments, but IT leaders know they are...
June 08, 2020
IT leaders need a holistic view of all the practices in their IT department. This blueprint helps you select the right KPIs for your organization, ...
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...