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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

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There are trade-offs of consistency and maintainability versus agility that need to be carefully decided upon. Ecosystem warrior: Enterprise architects manage the larger ecosystem, addressing challenges like sustainability, vendor management, compliance and risk mitigation.

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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders

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For instance, if you oversee security teams, you may want to consider the security-focused certifications, whereas if you manage an agile team, then project management and agile-focused certifications may be a better fit. This certification demonstrates your ability to work on or lead an agile team.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

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This underlines the need for organizations to embrace change and adopt a more agile and forward-thinking approach to digital transformation skills in order to overcome challenges and achieve digital transformation,” says Monika Sinha, research vice president in Gartner’s CIO Research group. Data skills are also vital, says NCC Group’s Fox.

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Product-based IT: 6 key steps for making the switch

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Past shifts to agile methodologies helped as teams now had a product owne r to prioritize backlogs and adopted agile principles that empowered them to commit to a realistic amount of work. But many enterprises stopped their agile transformations at this layer.

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7 common transformation mistakes and how to avoid them

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Foracchia says that AUSL Reggio Emilia has a strategic planning group made up of non-IT people with a business mandate that defines the ICT strategy. Of course, ICT is part of this planning group as well, but has a strategic rather than a technical role. But this also requires integration between software.

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