Because Process Matters

File for ‘IT Spending’ Category

This is a CMSWire cross-post. Let’s start 2013 by considering how the CIO function can deliver new solutions to your enterprise when as much as 80 percent of the IT budget goes to just keeping the lights on, maintaining your current systems. With market conditions forcing increased cost cutting, and a distinct trend to place [...]

City of Norfolk Improves Citizen Service Despite Lean Times

Posted by: Metastorm PR in: ● June 3, 2010

CivSource, a premiere publication writing about technology and policy issues facing state and local governments in the United States, recently wrote a detailed story on Metastorm customer City of Norfolk, VA. CivSource editor Jeff Smith met with and interviewed Mary White, Norfolk’s leader in business process automation, at the recently concluded 2010 Metastorm Global User [...]

CIOs: have you married business and IT yet?

Posted by: Derek Weeks in: ● November 13, 2009

Yesterday the CIO Agenda blog on Computer Business Review featured a post, CIOs must prepare for the ‘new normal’ that discusses a recent report from McKinsey Quarterly, Time to Raise the CIO’s Game: A Call to Action for European Companies. Another interesting, related post was featured earlier this week on CIO.com – BPM is the [...]

Invest in Enterprise Architecture now

Posted by: Metastorm PR in: ● August 5, 2009

A recent video from analyst firm Gartner highlights the importance of aligning strategy with execution to survive and thrive in today’s challenging economic environment and beyond. According to Dave Aron, vice president and research director in Gartner’s CIO research group, “CIOs are having to focus on all the different areas of business improvement, not just [...]

Agile business processes for a changing environment

Posted by: Metastorm PR in: ● June 3, 2009

These days organizations both large and small must be cognizant of external forces that can impact their business. An environmental disaster could play havoc on supply chains. A disease pandemic could have a significant impact on the demand for related healthcare products. A new administration could also bring new regulations impacting existing business processes, while [...]

Communicating the business value of IT

Posted by: Metastorm PR in: ● June 2, 2009

Many CIOs and IT managers face a common challenge to communicate how an IT project will help the company achieve its business goals. A recent article in CIO Insight lists 10 ways CIOs Can Communicate IT Business Value. These tips are from a recent Forrester report titled, “Value-Based Communication Boosts Business’ Perception of IT.” The [...]


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