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Digital addiction detox: Streamline tech to maximize impact, minimize risks

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This rapid adoption, while driving innovation, has also led to overloaded IT architectures that are fast and automated but often fragile and complex. As Robert Blumofe, chief technology officer at Akamai Technologies, told The Wall Street Journal recently, “The goal is not to solve the business problem. The goal is to adopt AI.”

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Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

CIO

More organizations than ever have adopted some sort of enterprise architecture framework, which provides important rules and structure that connect technology and the business. The results of this company’s enterprise architecture journey are detailed in IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (September 2024).

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Modernizing applications: the importance of reducing technical debt

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Technical debt is no longer just a “technical” problem. As recent, widely publicized events have shown, it is a business problem that can have serious consequences for organizations. What is technical debt? The warning signs of technical debt are clear.

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Balancing innovation with value, cost, and practicality: The CIO’s guide to future proofing technology investments

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Imagine navigating a rapidly changing landscape, where technology seems to evolve at the speed of light and the pressure to keep up is relentless — this is the reality for today’s CIO. Future proofing technology investments has become a critical imperative for organizations seeking to maintain their competitive edge.

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CrowdStrike incident has CIOs rethinking their cloud strategies

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For CIOs, the event serves as a stark reminder of the inherent risks associated with over-reliance on a single vendor, particularly in the cloud. Organizations and CISOs must review their cloud strategies, and the automatic updating of patches should be discouraged. An incident like this questions that reliability.

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Exploration to elimination: CIO road map for adaptive technology portfolios

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This stark reality underscores a critical challenge facing CIOs: building and maintaining a technology portfolio that’s not just cutting-edge but also delivers tangible value. Enter the Technology Investment Matrix — a holistic approach that spans four key phases: exploration, exploitation, evolution, and elimination.

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6 deadly sins of enterprise architecture

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For all its advances, enterprise architecture remains a new world filled with tasks and responsibilities no one has completely figured out. Some of this is due to the highly technical and complex nature of the job. But some of it is because of the following sins we enterprise architects keep committing. No one knows anything.