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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

Tech Trends 2023

In Tech Trends 2023, we consider how technology leaders can attack opportunities while protecting the organization from the risks posed.

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 Generative AI Roadmap

Generative AI is disrupting all industries and providing opportunities for organization-wide advantage. Organizations need to understand this disruptive technology and trends to properly develop a strategy for leveraging this technology successfully.

CIO & STRATEGY

Business Vision Diagnostic – Annual IT Improvement Program

This blueprint and its associated tools will help members convert their Business Vision Diagnostic results into a focused annual IT program to enhance business satisfaction and improve IT services.

CIO & STRATEGY

Create a Transparent and Defensible IT Budget

CIOs need a straightforward way to create an approval-ready IT budget that speaks to different stakeholder priorities. Use this blueprint, workbook, and executive presentation template to develop a multi-perspective IT budget and facilitate the budget-approval process.

INF & OPS

Optimize IT Change Management

Infrastructure and application change occur constantly, driven by changing business needs, requests for new functionality, operational releases and patches, and resolution of incidents or problems. IT managers need to follow a standard information technology change management best practice to ensure that rogue changes are never deployed while the organization remains responsive to demand.

PPM & PROJECTS

Develop a Project Portfolio Management Strategy

With the right PPM strategy, IT leaders can enable executive decision makers to make sense of the excess of project demand and prioritize those initiatives that are of the most value to the business — and that align with IT’s capacity to deliver.

PPM & PROJECTS

Maximize the Value of IT Across Enterprise Portfolios

Many organizations are skilled at optimizing within portfolios, not across them. Use this research to optimize at the enterprise level.

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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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