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DATA & BI

Build Your Data Quality Program

Data quality is something that everyone feels the impact of, and most data owners agree that managing it is a challenge. The value and effectiveness of decision-making is only as good as the quality of data fueling these efforts.

SECURITY

Assess and Manage Security Risks

A mature security risk management practice is a critical component of a comprehensive and risk-aware information security program. Use this blueprint to effectively implement a dynamic approach to assess and manage security risks.

CIO & STRATEGY

Build a Business-Aligned IT Strategy

Create an IT strategy based on business needs, not just intuition. It is no longer enough to generate a text document and call it an IT strategy. Stakeholder attention spans are growing shorter; create a visual IT strategy to show how IT will support the business.

CIO & STRATEGY

Design Your IT Organization for the Future

Design Your IT Organization for the Future is the second blueprint in your organizational transformation journey. In this blueprint you will design the IT structure your organization needs to align with and deliver on enterprise strategic objectives.

SECURITY

Build an Information Security Strategy

Build a business-aligned, risk-aware, holistic security strategy: gather business requirements to prioritize improvements; assess risks, stakeholder expectations, and risk appetite to set meaningful targets; conduct a comprehensive gap analysis to identify improvements; and build a flexible roadmap to set the program on the right footing.

CIO & STRATEGY

Build an Annual IT Talent Strategy

Build an annual IT talent strategy focused on four key pillars: culture, organizational structure & roles, learning & development, and recruitment and retention. Treat your IT talent activities as strategic initiatives that deliver business value by prioritizing the IT employee experience.

INF & OPS

Develop a Business Continuity Plan

Implement a structured and repeatable process, applied to one business unit at a time. Keep BCP planning efforts manageable and enable business unit leads to own their BCP in the future.

DATA & BI

Establish Data Governance

The amount of data within organizations is growing at an exponential rate, creating a need for organizations to adopt a formal approach to governing their data. However, many organizations remain uninformed on how to effectively and sustainably govern their data.

CIO & STRATEGY

Build Your AI Strategic Roadmap

Develop a business-driven AI strategy to maximize benefits and minimize the risks associated with AI-based solutions. Understand the potential opportunities to improve business outcomes and best practices to govern the risks with developing or deploying AI applications.

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Customer Relationship Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consists of applications designed to automate and manage the customer life cycle. CRM

Enterprise Resource Planning

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a suite of software applications supporting process areas such as finance, operations, HR, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, and supply chain.

Human Capital Management (HCM)

Human Capital Management (HCM, and often called HRIS or HRMS) software combines a number of systems and processes to ensure the easy management of human resources, business processes and data.

Project Management

Project Management (PM) software helps project managers and teams collaborate on a project, providing tools for task distribution, time management, budget and resource tracking.

Business Intelligence & Analytics (BI)

Business Intelligence (BI) software provides the tools to transform data into actionable insights that inform an organization's strategic and tactical business decisions.

IT Service Management

IT Service Management software supports the processes carried out by an IT department’s service desk, in the course of service delivery, incident management, problem management, and service request fulfillment.

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