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Successful Software Projects Require Focus on People

Steve Banker talks how he discovered how conversations with people led to successful IT projects.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/#5af8f4933e4b

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Delivering Large Scale IT Projects On Value

Michael Bloch, Sven Blumberg, and Jürgen Laartz write about how IT projects sometimes don't always work.  Here's some ideas how to make them work better:

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Applying a Change Management Method for Successful Technology Implementations

Kaityln Mcavoy writes how influence towards a common goal can help manage change in technology innovation.

http://spendmatters.com/2016/04/04/applying-a-change-management-method-for-successful-technology-implementation/

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Embracing Change as IT Leaders

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ERP Projects Need Organizational Change to Succeed

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How CIOs should think about business value

Michael Bloch and Andres Hoyos-Gomez remind us how CIOs should focus on business value not other items and ideas.

http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/business-technology/our-insights/how-cios-should-think-about-business-value#0

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Ram Charan writes about how executive sponsorship and technical expertise are necessary to drive change in the digital age.

https://hbr.org/2016/02/how-to-transform-a-traditional-giant-into-a-digital-one

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CIO Strategy for Driving IT Innovation

Peter Bender-Samuel writes about technology transformation.  Gaining and managing executive sponsorship and more.

http://www.cio.com/article/3038208/it-industry/cio-strategy-for-driving-it-innovation.html

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Maximizing the Value from Technology Investments

Kumar Krishnamurthy, Varun Sharma, Ramya Sarangarajan, Nakul Uppal write how we should continually what business problem we are trying to solve with technology investments.

http://www.strategyand.pwc.com/reports/maximizing-value-technology-investments

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CIOs as Change Agents: Five Perils of Change Management

Pearl Zhu writes about how CIOs can tread into perilous territory driving change.

http://futureofcio.blogspot.com/2016/02/cios-as-change-agent-five-perils-of.html?m=1

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