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IDC PlanScape: Product Excellence to Propel Digital Business for Government Agencies
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: May 2025 - Document type: IDC PlanScape - Doc Document number: # US53441525 Content Table of Contents (13 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.
IDC FutureScape：2024年全球CIO议程预测
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Mar 2024 - Document type: IDC FutureScape - Doc Document number: # CHC51915124 Content Table of Contents (12 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 Do you have questions about this document or available subscriptions? Thank you for submitting the form.
Driving Government Customer-Focused IT Innovation with Design Thinking
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Feb 2024 - Document type: IDC Perspective - Doc Document number: # US51830224 Content Table of Contents (9 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.
IDC PlanScape: Product Excellence to Propel Digital Business
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Jan 2024 - Document type: IDC PlanScape - Doc Document number: # US51728824 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 PlanScape focuses on achieving product excellence in the digital business.
IDC PlanScape: Technology Diffusion Strategies to Accelerate Business Performance
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Jan 2024 - Document type: IDC PlanScape - Doc Document number: # US51697224 Content Table of Contents (8 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.
Getting Started with Generative AI - Future Enterprise Planning Guide
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IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2024 Predictions
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for CIOs to have on their agenda in 2024. "These predictions provide a strategic context that will enable CIOs to lead their organizations through a period of accelerated change and disruption over the next five years.
Why CEOs, Boards, and Business Executives Need a Cybersecurity Capabilities Assessment Framework
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Aug 2023 - Document type: IDC Perspective - Doc Document number: # US51018223 Content Table of Contents (7 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.
IT Strategies for Improving Business Outcomes in Volatile Times
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Jul 2023 - Document type: IDC Perspective - Doc Document number: # US51005020 Content Table of Contents (8 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.
IDC's Cybersecurity Capabilities Assessment Framework 1.0
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Jul 2023 - Document type: IDC Perspective - Doc Document number: # US51014923 Content Table of Contents (13 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.
IDC Future IT Blueprint: Trusted Ecosystem Management
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Jun 2023 - Document type: Tech Buyer Presentation - Doc Document number: # US50859123 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.
Guide and Channel Transformation with Change Leadership Strategies and Techniques - Future Enterprise Planning Guide
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Jun 2023 - Document type: Tech Buyer Presentation - Doc Document number: # US50831323 Content 41 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 PlanScape: Governance, Leadership, Organizational, and Infrastructure Guidance in the Age of Permacrisis
target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Jun 2023 - Document type: IDC PlanScape - Doc Document number: # US50790423 Content Table of Contents (8 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.
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.
How CIOs Can Prepare Their IT Organizations and Enterprises for Generative AI
TECH BUYER May 2023 - IDC Perspective - Doc # US50608523 How CIOs Can Prepare Their IT Organizations and Enterprises for Generative AI Abstract "With the seemingly daily emergence of powerful digital technologies in the AI space, it can be tempting to lump generative AI in as 'just another intelligent technology,'" says Marc Strohlein, adjunct research advisor with IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP).
Leading Team-of-Teams Technology Organizations
TECH BUYER Apr 2023 - IDC Perspective - Doc # US50544223 Leading Team-of-Teams Technology Organizations Abstract This IDC Perspective helps CIOs understand what team-of-teams organizations are, why the model is a useful construct for IT governance, and what the key attributes are. It also provides actionable advice on how to implement team-of-teams organizations. Many IT teams are efficient yet siloed, losing the benefits of shared purpose, information, and talent.
首席信息官未来客户和消费者指南
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A CIO Change Leadership Strategy Framework for the Digital Era: LOB Executives
Abstract This IDC Perspective describes the key imperatives, primary goals, and goal-driven strategies for influencing the CIO's peers in pursuit of digitally driven change initiatives, which is in contrast to the first document that described leading the board.
A CIO Change Leadership Strategy Framework for the Digital Era: The Board of Directors
Abstract This IDC Perspective focuses on working with the board and describes the specific goals and actions needed to motivate and shape engagements and outcomes, identifies challenges unique to the board, and provides advice on creating change leadership strategies that will engage, influence, and guide the actions of boards of directors.
A CIO Change Leadership Strategy Framework for the Digital Era: The CIO's Direct Reports
Abstract This IDC Perspective describes what's different about change leadership in the digital era, provides examples of goals of CIO/direct-report change leadership, and provides advice on formulating strategies to improve the effectiveness of change leadership.
Meeting Emerging Government Agency Imperatives with APIs
TECH BUYER Jan 2023 - IDC Perspective - Doc # US49489522 Meeting Emerging Government Agency Imperatives with APIs Abstract This IDC Perspective is an introduction to the use of business-enabling APIs to create new program, services, and compliance opportunities; grow constituent audiences; and rapidly scale program services development capabilities.
IDC FutureScape：2023年全球CIO议程预测
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Future CIO: Finding the Right Role for Your Business
Abstract This IDC Perspective is intended to help CIOs understand the importance of finding the right role for their business, what possible roles they could play, and how to find the role and build the team necessary to fulfill it. As traditional businesses evolve and transform into digital businesses, the role of the CIO necessarily changes, becoming more complex and varied.
管理CIO迅速增多的角色
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IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2023 Predictions
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the 2023 CIO agenda. "In the face of continued economic volatility, inflation, and disruptions, technology leaders will have to rethink their role in light of what it takes to become a future CIO," says Serge Findling, vice president of research for IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP).
IDC PlanScape: Trusted Ecosystem Management Practices for Future IT
TECH BUYER May 2022 - IDC PlanScape - Doc # US49101022 IDC PlanScape: Trusted Ecosystem Management Practices for Future IT Abstract This IDC PlanScape is designed to make the case for the importance of trusted ecosystems. It explains why they are important, what they are, who are the key stakeholders, and how CIOs can help create them.
IDC PlanScape: Digital Business Resilience
Share TECH BUYER Mar 2022 - IDC PlanScape - Doc # US48923622 IDC PlanScape: Digital Business Resilience Abstract This IDC PlanScape is designed to make the case for digital business resilience and then explain what it is, who needs to be involved, and how CIOs and their business counterparts can begin the journey toward more resilient and successful enterprises.
Creating the Virtuous Circle of Empowerment, Agility, and Resilience
Abstract This IDC Perspective discusses how exponential change and growth in the business world is a relatively recent phenomenon. Spurred early on by the internet and web, it's gaining more speed and scale driven by social, mobile, and cloud computing, with machine learning and AI further pressing on the accelerator more recently. The lesson is clear for CIOs and business leaders: The ability to sense and adapt to rapidly changing conditions and events is an existential imperative.
Becoming the Ascendant CIO
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective aims at helping CIOs understand how they can ascend to or remain ascendant in key roles in the business leadership team. It explains why they are uniquely positioned, what traits and characteristics they need to develop, and what actions are necessary to achieve success.
Balancing Planning, Control, and Improvisation for Resilience
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective is intended to help CIOs navigate the change from traditional planningcontrolexecution models to a more flexible "adaptive" approach that blends planning, control, and improvisation. It explains how CIOs can employ improvisation to deal with unpredictable events, what's driving the need for improvisation, and how CIOs can ensure success in its use.
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2022 Predictions
Share TECH BUYER Oct 2021 - IDC FutureScape - Doc # US48297821 IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2022 Predictions By: Serge FindlingVice President of Research, Digital Transformation, Marc StrohleinAdjunct Research Advisor, Joseph C. PucciarelliGroup Vice President & IT Executive Advisor Abstract This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for the 2022 CIO agenda.
The Future CIO as Enterprise Change Agent
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective is aimed at helping CIOs understand their future roles and opportunities in driving and enabling change. It explains why they are uniquely positioned, what traits and characteristics they need to develop, what key elements underpin change initiatives, and what roles and imperatives they must address to achieve success.
Future IT: Building Alliances with Lines of Business and Ecosystem Partners
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective helps CIOs reframe their thinking about IT, transitioning from traditional organizational structures to alliances with LOB and ecosystem partners that form a cohesive network of digital competencies, products, and services. It explains how CIOs need to help create "software-defined, digitally powered" enterprises; explains why a new approach to IT is necessary; identifies critical success factors; and explains the CIO's new roles.
The CIO's Guide to Future IT: Planning for the Future Enterprise
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective helps CIOs frame their thinking about the future of their organizations, roles, and businesses. A complement to IDC MaturityScape: Future IT 1.0 (IDC #US47174621, March 2021), it explains what forces are driving and shaping the future of IT, why the future of IT and the enterprise are inextricably intertwined, and the key roles and imperatives that CIOs must address. Future IT is not a linear extrapolation of the past dressed up with some new technologies.
The Government CIO's Guide to the Future of Work, Part 2: Creating an IT Organization That Empowers the Workplace
Share TECH BUYER Jun 2021 - IDC Perspective - Doc # US47714821 The Government CIO's Guide to the Future of Work, Part 2: Creating an IT Organization That Empowers the Workplace By: Thom RubelAdjunct Research Advisor, Marc StrohleinAdjunct Research Advisor Abstract This IDC Perspective is part 2 of a guide for the future of work in government. It presents a readiness assessment to help determine whether agency IT organizations have the capabilities to support future of work initiatives.
The Government CIO's Guide to the Future of Work, Part 1: Reaching Beyond Remote
Share TECH BUYER May 2021 - IDC Perspective - Doc # US47714721 The Government CIO's Guide to the Future of Work, Part 1: Reaching Beyond Remote By: Thom RubelAdjunct Research Advisor, Marc StrohleinAdjunct Research Advisor Abstract This IDC Perspective is a guide to the "future of work" in government.
Future IT - Building IT Resilience by Finding and Tapping Extraordinary Staffers
Abstract This IDC Perspective expands on a previous study to help CIOs identify and understand two key traits that they need in their IT workers to build resilient IT organizations: grit and personal resilience (see Using Adaptive Planning to Build Organizational Resilience, IDC #US47080920, December 2020).
Assembling the Building Blocks of a Resilient IT Organization
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective discusses the attributes of a resilient IT organization. A resilient IT organization functions as a system, with the ability to recover from adverse events and reinvent itself to thrive in a new operating environment. The goal of IT resilience is to create sustainable, adaptive digital services, platforms, and capabilities that help businesses anticipate, react to, recover from, and capitalize on adverse events by evolving new businesses.
Using Metrics to Accelerate IT Innovation in Government
Share TECH BUYER Mar 2021 - IDC Perspective - Doc # US47488121 Using Metrics to Accelerate IT Innovation in Government By: Thom RubelAdjunct Research Advisor, Marc StrohleinAdjunct Research Advisor Abstract This IDC Perspective provides government CIOs with a framework to select the right metrics as an accelerator for innovation projects and initiatives.
Moving from Shadow IT to IT-Business Joint Ventures
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective introduces the concept of joint ventures between IT and lines of business (LOBs), describes the concept, and explains why it is important, who the key stakeholders are, and how CIOs can leverage and support LOB IT efforts. CIOs increasingly find themselves in untenable situations — caught between crushing demands from the business for IT innovation and LOB organizations doing end runs around the IT organization to satisfy their pressing IT needs.
Leverage Business Ecosystems for Digital Transformation
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective discusses the benefits of partnerships that can be greatly expanded by creating ecosystems that combine new business models, digital technologies, information, and stakeholder organizations and individuals in new ways to drive digital transformation scale and impact. These ecosystems can deliver products, services, and experiences that would be difficult, if not impossible, for the individual businesses to achieve on their own.
IDC PeerScape: Practices to Build Self-Directed IT Organizations
Share Abstract This IDC PeerScape introduces the concept of self-directed IT organizations as an alternative to traditional hierarchical, command-control structures in the face of increasing business volatility. It introduces practices aimed at helping CIOs and IT executives explore the use of self-directed organizational and governance structures to make their organizations more responsive and able to deal with volatile conditions, both within and external to their businesses.
Improving Government Response and Services Impact with IT Partner Networks
Share TECH BUYER Feb 2021 - IDC Perspective - Doc # US47335221 Improving Government Response and Services Impact with IT Partner Networks By: Thom RubelAdjunct Research Advisor, Marc StrohleinAdjunct Research Advisor Abstract This IDC Perspective, written for government CIOs and senior IT leaders, discusses IT partner networks.
IDC PeerScape: IT Governance Practices for Driving Digital Transformation
Share Abstract This IDC PeerScape describes practices that help CIOs improve their approaches to more traditional IT digital transformation governance while adopting new practices to improve its effectiveness. "The need for speed coupled with the assumption that only senior business leaders know enough about the business to shape digital transformation can lead to cloistered governance and lack of employee engagement," says Marc Strohlein, adjunct analyst, IDC's IT Executive Programs (IEP).
Using Digital Transformation Levers to Shift Customer Values and Behaviors
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective introduces the concept of digital transformation "levers" that can help ensure uptake and use of digitally enabled products, services, and experiences. The levers are strategies and tactics that harness emerging and ongoing shifts in what people value and the behaviors they adopt to realize those values.
Using Adaptive Planning to Build Organizational Resilience
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective is a guide to the concept and application of adaptive planning in pursuit of IT organizational resilience. Adaptive planning has been developed and applied by ecologists and urban planners who focus on ecosystem and community resilience. This study is intended to help CIOs understand adaptive planning, how IT can use adaptive planning, and why it is necessary to achieve true resilience.
Moving from Traditional Development to Digital Product Development to Support and Optimize Business Outcomes
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective focuses on the enterprise shift to digital product development. It is designed to help IT and line-of-business executives understand the additional considerations that digitally enabling products and services entail. It also defines digital products and identifies differences between traditional product development and digital product development, along with digital services and experiences.
Unlocking New Business Opportunities with APIs
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective is an introduction to the use of business-enabling APIs to create new product and service revenue opportunities, grow customer bases, and rapidly scale product development capabilities.
Drive Customer-Focused IT Innovation with Design Thinking
Share Abstract This IDC Perspective is an introduction to design thinking, a design process that is a widely and successfully used outside of IT. It is intended for CIOs who are looking for tools to help improve chances for success with the complex and ambiguous IT initiatives that arise from digital transformation.
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