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Curbing irresponsible employment
Automation may eliminate some jobs, but it will create many new ones that people can be trained to do. However, before undertaking such reskilling, the business must carefully plan how it will do this.

Nail compliance while keeping customers on the line.
How to balance anti-money-laundering management with the pressure to meet ‘know your customer’ requirements.

Move IT from paralysis to lean and agile
The fear is real for CIOs as a wrong decision or commitment to a long-term IT strategy could cost an organisation billions.

Steady, steady wins the transformation
In my 14-plus years in corporate IT operations, I remain astounded at the levels of wasteful expenditure in systems, under-utilised software licences, networks, hardware and storage, to name a few.

AgileIT CEO says 80% of ITSM and ITIL projects fail to meet their objectives
It is estimated that 80% of IT Service Management (ITSM) and ITIL projects fail to meet their objectives. This is a tragic as the essence of ITSM is that it provides a critical prescriptive framework to assist IT teams to manage service delivery to the business.

Reducing the Risks Associated With Job Automation
It is an accepted fact that technology is advancing at breathtaking speed. While this offers organisations unparalleled opportunities to improve service levels, competitiveness and efficiencies, they also face major challenges in terms of how to adapt to these changes and manage technology transitions that seem to appear daily.

ITSM in the age of digital transformation – DIGITAL
There’s a whole lot keeping modern CIOs awake at night. On a daily basis, the typical CIO is tasked with managing technology and IT. But they aren’t only ‘managing’ IT. These busy C-level execs also have to ensure that IT teams deliver world-class services that support business needs, while also keeping up with their competitors and handling the ever-increasing demands of their customers. And talking about keeping apace with things, today’s CIOs must also stay up-to-date with the latest solutions and technologies so that they can develop and deliver the shiny new apps that support broader marketing and business objectives, all while managing, and making the most of, legacy systems.

ITSM in the age of digital transformation – PRINT
There’s a whole lot keeping modern CIOs awake at night. On a daily basis, the typical CIO is tasked with managing technology and IT. But they aren’t only ‘managing’ IT. These busy C-level execs also have to ensure that IT teams deliver world-class services that support business needs, while also keeping up with their competitors and handling the ever-increasing demands of their customers. And talking about keeping apace with things, today’s CIOs must also stay up-to-date with the latest solutions and technologies so that they can develop and deliver the shiny new apps that support broader marketing and business objectives, all while managing, and making the most of, legacy systems.

2018’s top IT challenges that will keep you up at night and how to slay them
Many South African CIO’s today are stuck. This is the view of Nick Truran, CEO of AgileIT, a lean consultancy which assists corporate IT shops to transition from legacy and vendor commitments to highly effective partners able to deliver on the business strategy. “We call this mired state “CxO paralysis”,” Truran says,

2018‘s top IT challenges that keep CIO’s up at night and how to slay them
Of the 178 of South Africa’s top public and private sector CIOs surveyed in the 2017/18 ITWeb CIO Survey, 56 % believe their roles are changing faster and more drastically than any other industry. The key drivers for this change are digital migration, competition and globalisation.

Top IT Challenges of 2018 and how CIO’s can slay them
“We call this mired state “CxO paralysis”,” Truran says, “and the causes are not easily unravelled especially given huge investments in technologies and vendor relationships that are not deriving intended value.

2018’s top IT challenges that keep IT execs up at night
Many South African CIO’s today are stuck. This is the view of Nick Truran, CEO of AgileIT, a lean consultancy which assists corporate IT shops to transition from legacy and vendor commitments to highly effective partners able to deliver on the business strategy.

AppCentrix enters strategic partnership with AgileIT
Managed ICT services company, AppCentrix, has announced a strategic partnership with business value IT consultants, AgileIT. AppCentrix offers managed services that provide a real-time, single view of an entire IT estate. AgileIT is an IT services consultancy that delivers agility into technology.