Today’s CIO faces three enormous challenges: Complex technology landscape For one, technology is a critical resource in today’s enterprise. But the sheer number of different technologies businesses rely on – spanning endpoints like mobile phones and laptops to on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure to custom-built and third-party delivered SaaS applications – can overwhelm the CIO and …
Across industries, we’re experiencing a wave of automation, from smart factories to self-driving cars. With so many industries moving to autonomous operations, the modern CIO should also think about moving IT to an autonomous, self-driving operation as well. Why? Every CIO – especially now with a possible recession on the horizon – is being challenged …
Introducing the ETM Vision: Powering Autonomous IT Read More »
There was a time when most (somewhat organized) salespeople managed their contacts with a Rolodex, hand writing names and phone numbers on flip cards. Then — after observing this relatively standard process — some smart people figured out they could automate it by writing software. The CRM enterprise application category was born. Of course, this …
As a CIO, your team is no doubt constantly barraged with the “what abouts.” What about Web 3.0? What about cryptocurrency? What about security? Why aren’t we doing more in artificial intelligence and machine learning? What about IOT? What is our cloud migration strategy? And what about digital transformation — something that every CIO has …
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In the Five Levels of Enterprise Technology (ET) Process Maturity, I discussed how IT’s enterprise technology processes – the processes that touch the entire technology portfolio deployed by a company – can operate at one of five levels: Level 1: No Process – The process is undefined. Level 2: Described – The process is described …
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ET processes need to manage an organization’s technology portfolio throughout the entire technology lifecycle, from technology planning to procurement through EOL (Plan-to-EOL). For instance, an accurate budget requires accurate demand forecasting. The required input is not only planned new technology purchases, but also procurement of replacements for broken technology and upgrades to technology reaching end …
In Three Options to Help CIOs Fund Digital Transformation, I discuss how CIOs and their staffs can improve IT productivity and find budget to fund transformational initiatives like digital transformation by digitally transforming their enterprise technology (ET) management processes — those process that touch the entire technology portfolio deployed by the overall company. Today, these …
The Five Levels of Enterprise Technology (ET) Process Maturity Read More »
In an earlier article, I shared The Five Levels of Enterprise Technology (ET) Process Maturity. In that article, I discussed how CIOs and their staffs could fund transformational initiatives like digital transformation by improving the maturity of their processes that span siloed management tools and touch the entire technology portfolio deployed by the company. Today, …
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With so many industries moving to autonomous operations, from self-driving cars to smart factories, the next CIO needs to think about also moving IT to an autonomous, self-driving operation. A big obstacle are the processes that span siloed management tools like employee offboarding, which today are mostly done manually. This creates all sorts of cost …
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