Technology changes are creating new opportunities for next generation data warehousing and analytics.

In the digital era, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) can be especially rife with challenges. Many CIOs find it nearly impossible to determine how long it will take to integrate a company. It could be three months. It could be three years. But with a relentless focus on using enterprise architecture (EA) to catalyze acquisitions, you can mitigate the challenges.

Would your organization benefit from business executives who foster overall operational stability, while at the same time use a wide array of options for handling uncertainty? How about a line staff that is empowered to deal with routines decisively? Of course it would.

Business architecture and customer experience (CX) design are two separate disciplines, each with different goals, focuses, artifacts, and team members. However, when they work in close collaboration with each other, they can greatly improve an organization’s ability to design and deliver a superior customer experience.

Cutter Consortium’s Technical Due Diligence for Acquisitions ensures an unbiased assessment of the software, software architecture, technology, security, and technology skills of your potential acquisition.

IT can be a powerful force in helping organizations go digital. But many CIOs need to overhaul their own organizations first. This demands strong technology leadership, an objective analysis of the current state, and a roadmap for the reforms needed to support digital.

Leaders who implement digital transformation through a top-down approach, consultant-led approach, or IT-led approach often ignore the conditions that prompted the need for digital transformation in the first place. They decide how to solve the problem without considering the organizational dynamics, behavioral habits, and culture that created the problem.