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6 ways you’re failing at change management

CIO

Its up to IT leaders to ensure the changes their digital initiatives bring to business workflows are absorbed and acted upon by the users impacted by them. Too often, however, change management is treated as an afterthought, observes Munir Hafez, senior vice president and CIO at consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion.

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5 tips for better business value from gen AI

CIO

Specify metrics that align with key business objectives Every department has operating metrics that are key to increasing revenue, improving customer satisfaction, and delivering other strategic objectives. Below are five examples of where to start. Gen AI holds the potential to facilitate that.

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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO

Ask CIOs about their biggest digital transformation challenges, and they’re likely to cite people issues or what experts identify as gaps in change management practices. When CIOs can’t drive change, new digital products and technology capabilities can become shelfware, and the business value is delayed or diminished.

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4 steps to connect change management and DevOps

CIO

The challenge some companies face, however, is the change management of the structured approach for handling alterations within a development cycle. Change management is an enabling framework for managing people through a change, in this case, related to a product in production. But it’s not easy.

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7 signs it’s time to modernize your IT systems

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“Often, technical leaders don’t devote sufficient time to communication, change management, and stakeholder management,” he observes. Hafez adds that most modernization projects typically fail due to a lack of a realistic expectations, defined requirements, and ineffective change management.

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The change management Informatica needed to overhaul its business model

CIO

I didn’t fully consider we were changing the way our employees did their jobs, and that every person was going through their own change management challenges at various times. In my simple Scottish brain, I thought, “We’ve all agreed we’re doing this, so we’ll all fall in line and tell our employees to prepare for change.”

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What is change management? A guide to organizational transformation

CIO

What is the main purpose of change management? In modern IT, change management has many different guises. Project managers view change management as the process used to obtain approval for changes to the scope, timeline, or budget of a project. What are the benefits of change management?