Recommended Key Initiative Plan
These 9 initiatives have been found to elicit the most significant measurable impact for professionals in this role.
- 1. Assess Your Applications Portfolio
- 2. Build an Applications Roadmap
- 3. Improve Your Requirements Gathering Process
- 4. Govern and Manage an Enterprise Software Implementation
- 5. Optimize Application Development
- 6. Enhance Your Software Quality Assurance Practice
- 7. Develop an Annual Application Maintenance Program
- 8. Establish an Applications Center of Excellence
- 9. Adopt Business Process Improvement
Application Development
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January 07, 2022
This blueprint will help you streamline and rationalize Application Portfolio Management by following our four-phase methodology: Lay Your Foundati...

December 03, 2021
Because of the increasing realization that principles like Agile and DevOps are important for overall business health, organizations have started t...

November 05, 2021
The need for business agility is growing, but many organizations still focus on product delivery at a tactical level. How well are individual produ...

September 14, 2021
DevOps is a philosophy that emphasizes a strong relationship between development and operations by incorporating each other’s priorities in their o...

June 15, 2021
Most command and control–style organizations struggle with adopting Agile because it requires a different way of working. To be successful, you’ll ...

May 11, 2021
Your application department strategy isn’t just about what you should do next. It is a balance of identity, priority, and goals.

April 22, 2021
Limited capacity for manual testing exposes your applications to unnecessary business and technical risks. Delaying automation is not worth the pri...

April 09, 2021
Many organizations want to get to market quickly and on budget but don’t know the right steps to get the right product or service. Learn how to cre...
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Business Processes
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November 06, 2020
Select your applications with the right satisfaction drivers in mind. Find deep satisfaction from software that provides long-term, meaningful bene...

October 21, 2020
Select your applications better, faster, and cheaper with the “Magic Numbers.” This research uses 43,000 data points to help you make the business ...

September 30, 2020
The product marketing team is responsible for taking a product from concept to market using a well-informed strategy. Traditional go-to-market stra...

September 16, 2020
Vendors will eat you for breakfast if you aren’t well prepared for negotiations, but many customers aren’t negotiation experts and are overwhelmed ...

September 16, 2020
Your stakeholders decided to invest in robotic process automation (RPA) to increase business productivity, improve customer experience, and scale a...

September 15, 2020
Switching software substantially drives satisfaction, no matter the organization’s industry or size or the type of software. This research outlines...

June 22, 2020
Application selection is a critical activity for IT departments. Implement a repeatable, data-driven approach that accelerates application selectio...

May 26, 2020
Application selection is a critical activity for IT departments. Implement a repeatable, data-driven approach that accelerates application selectio...
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Enterprise Applications
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December 22, 2021
Enterprise applications implementations are complex, and their success is critical to business operations. Selecting the right software implementat...

July 23, 2021
With marketer rush to generate revenues, just 32% of companies pass well-qualified leads over to their outbound sellers. The culprit is often a lac...

July 05, 2021
In today’s connected world continuous optimization of HRMS, HRIS, and HCM is key to enabling your digital strategy. Human resource management syste...

June 02, 2021
A CRM system is a critical component to deliver services to customers. It is essential to the organization; therefore, the usage of the CRM needs t...

April 09, 2021
An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is one of the most expensive software purchases a company will make. It is essential to the organizati...

February 02, 2021
Lay the groundwork for a successful chatbot proof of concept while keeping business goals up front by implementing the proper metrics, gathering re...

October 07, 2020
This research is for IT leaders looking for creating a comprehensive SCM strategy in order to make solution recommendations and augment the functio...

March 20, 2020
COVID-19 is a daunting threat for virtually every organization – but an updated approach to Customer Experience Management can help ward off the wo...