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DATA & BI

Govern the Use of AI Responsibly With a Fit-for-Purpose Structure

As pressure mounts to introduce AI technologies into your organization, how is as important as what. Understand what it will take to introduce a level of governance to help you responsibly deliver on your roadmap and strategy for AI technologies.

INF & OPS

Optimize IT Change Management

Infrastructure and application change occur constantly, driven by changing business needs, requests for new functionality, operational releases and patches, and resolution of incidents or problems. IT managers need to follow a standard information technology change management best practice to ensure that rogue changes are never deployed while the organization remains responsive to demand.

SECURITY

Develop and Implement a Security Incident Management Program

Organizations face an ever-evolving range of cyberthreats. It is crucial to have a security incident management program to detect, respond, and recover from security breaches effectively. With the rise in cyberattacks and data breaches, organizations must be proactive in managing incidents to minimize damage and maintain business continuity.

CIO & STRATEGY

Build a Business-Aligned IT Strategy

Create an IT strategy based on business needs, not just intuition. It is no longer enough to generate a text document and call it an IT strategy. Stakeholder attention spans are growing shorter; create a visual IT strategy to show how IT will support the business.

CIO & STRATEGY

Design Your IT Organization for the Future

Design Your IT Organization for the Future is the second blueprint in your organizational transformation journey. In this blueprint you will design the IT structure your organization needs to align with and deliver on enterprise strategic objectives.

INF & OPS

Develop a Business Continuity Plan

Implement a structured and repeatable process, applied to one business unit at a time. Keep BCP planning efforts manageable and enable business unit leads to own their BCP in the future.

APPLICATIONS

Rationalize Your Application Portfolio

Rationalize Your Application Portfolio establishes a program and record of applications used in your organization, an assessment of how well they are supporting their core functions, and guidance on where modernization efforts are needed. The dashboards help support conversations and improve IT planning and product management. This blueprint will help you streamline and rationalize application portfolio management by following our four-phase methodology: Lay Your Foundations, Improve Your Inventory, Rationalize Your Applications, and Populate Your Roadmap.

SECURITY

Address Security and Privacy Risks for Generative AI

This research will help security leaders seeking to better understand the risks associated with using generative AI and will walk them through how to manage those risk in the short and long term.

SECURITY

Build an Information Security Strategy

Build a business-aligned, risk-aware, holistic security strategy: gather business requirements to prioritize improvements; assess risks, stakeholder expectations, and risk appetite to set meaningful targets; conduct a comprehensive gap analysis to identify improvements; and build a flexible roadmap to set the program on the right footing.

Top SoftwareReviews Category Reports

Customer Relationship Management

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consists of applications designed to automate and manage the customer life cycle. CRM

Enterprise Resource Planning

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a suite of software applications supporting process areas such as finance, operations, HR, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, and supply chain.

Human Capital Management (HCM)

Human Capital Management (HCM, and often called HRIS or HRMS) software combines a number of systems and processes to ensure the easy management of human resources, business processes and data.

Project Management

Project Management (PM) software helps project managers and teams collaborate on a project, providing tools for task distribution, time management, budget and resource tracking.

Business Intelligence & Analytics (BI)

Business Intelligence (BI) software provides the tools to transform data into actionable insights that inform an organization's strategic and tactical business decisions.

IT Service Management

IT Service Management software supports the processes carried out by an IT department’s service desk, in the course of service delivery, incident management, problem management, and service request fulfillment.

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