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IDC PeerScape: Practices to Improve Operational Efficiency
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Mar 2024 - Document type: IDC PeerScape - Doc Document number: # US51896724 Content Table of Contents (10 pages) Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment. Related Links Web Rights Referencing Documents Abstract This IDC PeerScape discusses the practices to improve operational efficiency.
IDC Future IT Blueprint: Assessing the Value of Emerging Technologies to the Business
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Feb 2024 - Document type: Tech Buyer Presentation - Doc Document number: # US51820824 Content 5 slides Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment.
IDC Future IT Blueprint: LOB Relationship Management
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Feb 2024 - Document type: Tech Buyer Presentation - Doc Document number: # US51821524 Content 5 slides Get More When you purchase this document, the purchase price can be applied to the cost of an annual subscription, giving you access to more research for your investment.
IDC Future IT Blueprint: Strategic Architecture
TECH BUYER Jun 2023 - Tech Buyer Presentation - Doc # US50785023 IDC Future IT Blueprint: Strategic Architecture Abstract This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides a quick situational overview and actionable guidance to address the challenge of using strategic architecture to lead the organization into the future. Strategic architecture planning can be used to achieve strategic business priorities.
IDC PlanScape: Future IT - Security Resource Optimization
This IDC PlanScape discusses the future IT with the practices of security resource optimization.
IDC PlanScape: Emerging Technology Assessment for Future IT (Japanese)
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Enable More Rapid Digital Transformation by Addressing Technical Debt - Future Enterprise Planning Guide
TECH BUYER Feb 2023 - Tech Buyer Presentation - Doc # US50243123 Enable More Rapid Digital Transformation by Addressing Technical Debt — Future Enterprise Planning Guide Abstract This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides CIOs with tools to address technical debt (unfunded liabilities) and prevent it from becoming a barrier to meeting enterprise goals.
CIO Guidance: Preventing and Remediating Technical Debt
Abstract This IDC Perspective defines technical debt and how it is created; multiple examples of enterprise impact are given, along with steps for building a get-well plan. This document is designed to provide foundation of information with which to educate the entire enterprise. Given the rate of change of innovation and product speed to market, almost every company relies on parts of its enterprise architecture that are greater than a year old.
Abstract As the cost to deliver software required to support digital offerings grows, CIOs face pressure to defend investments in software development teams, something many struggle to do because they lack visibility into those teams performance. To help address that problem, this IDC Perspective provides direction to CIOs regarding organizational practices for measuring and monitoring their software development teams.
TECH BUYER Apr 2022 - IDC PlanScape - Doc # US48989020 IDC PlanScape: Automation for Future IT Abstract This IDC PlanScape provides guidance to future IT within the automation subdimension. "The technologies that are collectively known as intelligent automation bring together both technologies that have been in a CIO's toolbox for a while and those that are new and rapidly evolving," said Cora Carmody, adjunct research adviser with IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP).
Share TECH BUYER Feb 2022 - Tech Buyer Presentation - Doc # US48884822 Measuring Future IT: KPIs for Digital Infrastructure On-line Presentation Abstract This Tech Buyer Presentation discusses the need for key performance indicators (KPIs) to show and improve the digital infrastructure capability and capacity supporting the transition to a digital-first enterprise.
Agile Leadership - What, Why, and How
Share On-line Presentation Abstract This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation guides leaders with Agile teams in the strategy and approach for successful Agile development. It introduces the guiding principles of Agile and documents the reasons why Agile is helpful with accelerating speed, lessening risk, and fostering customer and employee engagement.
Perverse Incentives: Lessons from Unexpected Sources
Share On-line Presentation Abstract This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation alerts readers to ways that KPIs can go wrong and how to avoid measurement pitfalls. A "perverse incentive" is an unintended and undesirable result that accidently rewards the wrong behavior, causes people to act on exceptions, perpetuates a broken process, measures results too late, or omits the influence of natural human motivations.
IDC PlanScape: Forging Effective KPIs - Measuring What Matters to the Board
Share Abstract This IDC study delineates effective key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring what matters to the board in five key areas. Communicating metrics that matter in a ways that sparks meaningful dialogue between the board and the C-suite is an area where CIOs can shine.
IDC PlanScape: Building Agile Success Through IT Practices
Share Abstract This IDC study describes the practices that CIOs should adopt with their business partners to successfully overhaul their development approaches. An Agile methodology describes the culture of transparency and trust within which Agile practices can drastically reduce the odds of coming up short on customer satisfaction.
IDC PlanScape: Building Agile Success Through IT Culture
Share Abstract This IDC study reinforces the aspects of culture that must surround agile practices. The Agile Manifesto is brief and the message of people over process is reinforced in many ways. The most popular development framework that builds on the values and principles of agile is the Scrum Framework.
IDC PlanScape: Forging Effective KPIs - Measuring IT's Contribution to Business Growth
Share Abstract This IDC study is the second of three PlanScape documents providing recommendations for CIOs as they enhance their organization's measurement maturity. The key performance indicators that the CIO shares should evolve as the enterprise progresses in its transformation into a digitally driven enterprise.
IDC PlanScape: Forging Effective KPIs - Measuring Progress in Digital Transformation
Share Abstract This IDC study is the last of three IDC PlanScape documents that provide recommendations for CIOs as they enhance their organization's measurement maturity. In this study, the key performance indicators (KPIs) that the CIO shares should evolve as the enterprise progresses in its transformation into a digitally driven enterprise.
IDC PlanScape: Forging Effective KPIs - Measuring IT's Efficiency and Effectiveness
Share Abstract This IDC study is the first of three IDC PlanScape documents that provide recommendations for CIOs as they enhance their organization's measurement maturity. The key performance indicators (KPIs) that the CIO shares should evolve as the enterprise matures in its ability to transform into a digitally driven enterprise. This study recommends the aspects of an initial measurement approach that CIOs should use to review their existing metrics program or to initiate one.
Forging Effective KPIs - Best Practices for IT Leaders
Share FREE DOWNLOAD To access this document for free please log in or register. Abstract This IDC Web Conference lays out a plan for using new digital KPIs to drive transformative IT capabilities throughout the enterprise. Participants will be empowered to use KPIs to improve internal outcomes and spark business results. Digital transformation requires organizations to utilize new KPIs that measure their core cultural, business, process, technology, and staffing initiatives.
IDC PlanScape: Real-Time Digital Dashboard and Metrics
Share Abstract This IDC PlanScape provides guidance for CIOs and procurement organizations to plan the digital dashboard and metrics that are most relevant to communicate the fact-based performance of the external suppliers and internal resources that support your enterprise strategy. "What gets measured gets improved is a well-known tenet underlying Six Sigma and lean quality improvement methodologies.
IDC PlanScape: Sourcing and PMO Integration
Share Abstract This IDC PlanScape provides a recommended path for CIOs and chief procurement officers (CPOs) to transform the process of delivering projects through a unity of focus, reaping the benefits of cost and schedule efficiency. This IDC PlanScape provides guidance that will bring about transparency in the acquisition of goods and services needed for project execution and will bring about the alignment required for enterprisewide creation.
IDC PlanScape: Asset Life-Cycle Management
Share Abstract This IDC PlanScape provides a recommended path for CIOs to transform the systems, services, and culture of support to the enterprise with dynamic insight into the performance of suppliers and their deployed assets. Maximizing the value of investment is a critical success factor for IT, while ensuring the productivity of every knowledge worker. This IDC PlanScape provides a step-by-step plan for addressing this priority.
The Innovation Imperative: Strategies for Attracting and Retaining High-Value IT Talent in Government
Share TECH BUYER Mar 2020 - IDC Perspective - Doc # US46122320 The Innovation Imperative: Strategies for Attracting and Retaining High-Value IT Talent in Government By: Thom RubelAdjunct Research Advisor, Cora CarmodyAdjunct Research Advisor Abstract This IDC Perspective provides rationale and strategies to governments for developing a plan for IT culture transformation and discusses tactics that have worked across all industries.
IDC PlanScape: Customer-Centric Service Delivery
Share Abstract This IDC PlanScape provides a path for CIOs to transform the systems, services, and culture of IT into an ecosystem that clearly values the customer and puts customers at the center of every IT approach, action, and implementation. It describes the integration of customer-centric processes, with a deep understanding of application performance, end-user experience, and IT service management.
The Future Enterprise: The CIO's Role in Creating a Positive Workplace Culture
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective explores the impact of the CIO's personal leadership style and presence on a positive employee experience. Leading with empathy is vital for employee engagement; employees don't leave companies, they leave leaders. The importance of employee experience is growing along with the increasing importance of enterprise digital transformation.
The CIO's Framework for Accelerating IT Transformation Initiatives
Share TECH BUYER Nov 2019 - IDC Perspective - Doc # US45649619 The CIO's Framework for Accelerating IT Transformation Initiatives By: Cora CarmodyAdjunct Research Advisor, Serge FindlingVice President of Research, Digital Transformation Abstract This IDC Perspective, written for CIOs and senior technology executives, lays out a plan for leading the IT transformation that is essential for the digital transformation of a business.
The CIO's Guide to Tackling the Cloud Transition Learning Curve
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective describes common concerns CIOs express as they contemplate making the move from traditional on-prem IT architectures to cloud computing models. The document shows that these concerns are generally offset by the benefits that come from the move, including increased agility, frictionless feature updates, and the capacity and power that exceeds the typical datacenter. Guidance is provided for starting points for CIOs to consider as they take the first steps.
Managing Digital Disruption: An IT Road Map for Enabling and Supporting Line-of-Business Technology Initiatives
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective lays out actions in four key areas essential to building IT and operations collaboration — the foundation of the digitally determined enterprise. The document discusses the importance of creating bridges between IT and operations and essential steps in the areas of architecture, governance, and risk/compliance/security.
IT Policies and Governance: Managing the Rising Tide of External Apps and Services
Share TECH BUYER Jun 2019 - Conference Proceeding: Tech Buyer - Doc # US45293819 IT Policies and Governance: Managing the Rising Tide of External Apps and Services By: Cora Carmody, Robert MulthaupAdjunct Research Advisor FREE DOWNLOAD To access this document for free please log in or register.
IDC's IT Executive Blog
Jun 25,2019 / By Cora Carmody / No Comment IT has always had to support audits and certifications and navigate through what seems like constantly changing requirements. Compliance was visible to the board and IT had to answer to the board. That visibility, though, was rarely outside the building – and historically more top of mind for the CFO, the audit committee, internal audit and the CIO.
Building an Engaging IT Culture to Retain High-Value Talent
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IDC's IT Executive Blog
“Architecture is not about installing infrastructure, but designing ways that information is stored and moved,” says Joe Spagnoletti, CIO of US LBM, a $3 billion specialty distributor of lumber, roofing, siding, and other building materials across 30 states. “When it comes to technology, we want to stay ahead of our competition, but not our technology partners,” he says.
Why Enterprise Architecture Is Important for New CIOs
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Accelerating IT's Clock Speed: 10 Specific Tactics
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