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Dec
Year-End Round-Up: The Top 10 Posts of 2017
Of all the posts published in 2017 on the Abraic blog, here were the 10 most popular:
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Dec
How Amica Reshaped Its IT Processes: An Agile Adoption Case Study
Rhode Island-based Amica Insurance provides auto, home and life insurance nationwide and employs more than 3,800 people in 44 offices across the U.S. Amica was...
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Dec
A Software Developer Makes a Great Executive Advisor
When executives don’t see the outcomes they expect from a technology, they often bring in external help to assess the situation and propose a get-well...
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Nov
Every Business Is Becoming Digital. Are You Keeping Pace?
Author and professor Venkat Venkatraman recently spoke to the SIM Boston chapter about how IT leaders within established companies can recognize and respond to digital...
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Nov
Embracing Digital Transformation: Advice from the Big Guns
I’ve come across a few good resources that will be helpful as you navigate your own Digital Transformation journey. More on this in the coming...
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Nov
Improving Delivery Through Empowerment: 4 Steps to Empower an Agile Team
Your company is moving to Agile from waterfall, and you want to ensure a smooth transformation that keeps projects healthy. As a scrum master working...
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Nov
When New Technology Causes Productivity to Plummet
Technology is expected to enhance productivity Most business cases for technology investments include “productivity gains.” Even when no formal business case is created or communicated,...
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Nov
A Maturity Model for Vendor Relationships: You Can’t Marry All of Them
Vendor management is an internal IT function that often has room for improvement. A maturity model is a helpful tool for evaluating the state of...
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Oct
The Cost of Quality
Every organization thinks about the quality of the goods and services they produce. After all, their name is on the line. Not all companies, however,...
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Oct
Improving Data Quality: The 3 Core Functions of a Data Cleanse
In previous posts, we established that data needs to be clean in order for organizations to make sound decisions, and we introduced a 5-part framework...
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Oct
How to Prioritize IT Initiatives Without Losing Friends: 5 Success Factors
A Black-and-White Prioritization Process: Quick and Uncomplicated First, a common definition of success: IT initiative prioritization is a mechanism to calendarize and budgetize investments in...
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Oct
IT Professionals Should Watch Their Language
When someone’s job description is “firefighter,” you know exactly how they can help you. If your house is on fire, they will put it out....
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