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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO

The compay fostered a culture of innovation by involving employees in the modernization process and addressing their concerns. Finally, adopting a modular approach to system design enhanced flexibility and simplified future integrations. This leads to an old consulting joke. A: Expensive, bad processes.

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Why GreenOps will succeed where FinOps is failing

CIO

Architects must combine functional requirements with multiple other long-term requirements to build sustainable systems. FinOps initiatives often prioritize implementing cost-management tools over cultivating a culture of accountability and collaboration, which is essential for lasting change. Cultural shift.

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Police Reform and Systems Design in 5 Clear Points

Scott Berkun

Patrisse Cullors , co-founder of Black Lives Matter, has said that police culture has long been detached from the needs of the communities they are supposed to serve and that it needs to be transformed. At one obvious level if the culture in an organization is still unchanged, what should we expect?

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Article: Thriving in the Complexity of Software Development Using Open Sociotechnical Systems Design

InfoQ Culture Methods

An organisation designed using open sociotechnical systems theory will be a more humane one where people are more engaged. The amazing progress made in technology has led to blindly following the technical imperative at the cost of the social and human dimension.

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The road to Software 2.0

O'Reilly Media - Data

Understanding and addressing the risks of ML and AI will require cross-functional teams; these teams need to encompass not only people with different kinds of expertise (security, privacy, compliance, ethics, design, and domain expertise), but also people from different social and cultural backgrounds.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO

This rule of engagement lays the foundation for building a strong inherent FinOps culture within the IT and business teams preemptively, rather than being exposed post-go-live to an expensive cloud bill. The journey I propose is in five phases through the lens of a crawl-walk-run framework. First, the mean part.

Cloud 147
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6 enterprise DevOps mistakes to avoid

CIO

Taking an IT project mentality over a cultural transformation one DevOps requires culture alignment between dev and ops to improve customer experiences, drive business agility, and improve operational resiliency. But by taking a tools-first approach to implementation, many CIOs overlook the importance of culture change.

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