Providing a Compass for the Journey
CIOs are prioritizing different needs as they help their organizations evolve to become more digital thanks to security, mobility, analytics and cloud (or SMAC) technologies. A few CIOs shared their top projects for 2016 with CIO.com.
Source: How CIOs will refine digital transformation in 2016 | CIO
Since it was introduced 20 years ago, disruptive innovation has devolved in some quarters from theory to tech conference tagline. “If disruption is a real business theory rather than a marketing term for anything new, it must be applied correctly to realize its benefits,” CIO Journal Columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger writes.
Source: Now Is the Time to Revisit Disruptive Innovation – The CIO Report – WSJ
Almost all business processes suffer from excess complexity and variability, but both are difficult to spot—and even harder to eradicate—without fact-based analytical tools.
Complexity may drive as much as 15 to 30 percent of a large business’s total costs, according to various estimates.¹ In real numbers, if a company spends $1 billion on general and administrative expenses, anywhere from $150 million to $300 million² is incurred as a result of complexity, which encompasses overly complicated and widely variable business processes.
Source: Taming Complexity With Analytics – Deloitte CIO – WSJ
