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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.

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 2024

Generative AI’s disruptive impact on every industry brings with it new opportunities for organizations to seize and new risks they must mitigate as they forge their strategy for the future. In this year’s Tech Trends report, we examine three trends to help seize the opportunities: AI-Driven Business Models, Autonomized Back Office, and Spatial Computing. And three trends that will help mitigate risks: Responsible AI, Security by Design, Digital Sovereignty.

INF & OPS

Infrastructure & Operations Priorities 2024

Review the five priorities in this report to identify which resonate with your own infrastructure priorities for 2024.

DATA & BI

Govern the Use of AI Responsibly With a Fit-for-Purpose Structure

As pressure mounts to introduce AI technologies into your organization, how is as important as what. Understand what it will take to introduce a level of governance to help you responsibly deliver on your roadmap and strategy for AI technologies.

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.

CIO & STRATEGY

CIO Priorities 2024

This year’s CIO Priorities report highlights five key initiatives that will help IT deliver the greatest value in the year ahead, based on data gathered from CIOs and senior IT leaders as they respond to the external trends impacting their organizations.

CIO & STRATEGY

Build an IT Risk Management Program

Managing risk has never been more important. Ensure that your organization has an established and manageable way of governing a process related to identifying, assessing, responding, monitoring, and reporting on IT risks.

CIO & STRATEGY

Optimize IT Governance for Dynamic Decision-Making

As business complexity and uncertainty evolve, so too must your governance framework to ensure it remains in alignment with organizational purpose. Governance must be fit for purpose and aligned to value, providing the right amount of support to enable effective decision-making and drive positive business outcomes.

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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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