Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog December 1, 2020 Transforming Delivery Through Value Streams As business and IT leaders adopt new operating models and organize around rapidly shifting customer and business prioritization, they are embracing value stream management as their preferred approach. The rate of change is forcing organizations to rethink how to expedite value as they seek to transform and stay relevant. In the previous two blogs, “Seven Key Factors to a Successful PMO… Blog December 2, 2020 Control the Cloud Ensuring IT risks are managed and compliance requirements are met has only intensified with the recent rapid growth in adoption of cloud services. Deployment of production workloads, migration of regulated systems and increasing storage of large volumes of data in the cloud has driven the need for security and controls to be deployed across customer cloud environments. Within large enterprises,… Blog December 4, 2020 Securing Data with Microsoft Information Protection Join our webinar, Protecting Your Information with Microsoft Information Protection, Thursday, February 4, 1 p.m. eastern Why does Information Protection matter? Information Protection is the process of securing digital information without restricting the organization’s capability to use their data for business purposes or compromising consumer and end-user privacy. The significance of… Blog December 7, 2020 The Role of the Business vs. IT in Supporting Cloud Applications For companies considering the move to a Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, one of the key drivers is likely the perceived opportunity for reduced IT overhead costs and maintenance responsibilities. While hosting and general monitoring activities are delegated to the SaaS provider, there will be both new and continued responsibilities for IT that… Blog December 10, 2020 How to Integrate Automated Controls in a Hybrid Agile SAP S/4HANA Implementation Many organizations have now started their journey to SAP S/4HANA or are currently in the midst of an implementation. It is important to integrate controls early in the implementation, rather than going through the effort of trying to incorporate these after go-live. This is referred to as a “design in” approach, opposed to a “retrofit” approach. Controls are integrated throughout the… Blog December 14, 2020 A Leadership Perspective: Growing with the Client Fifteen years ago, I had the good fortune of winning a project to build a data warehouse for National Vision (NVI). The company had recently emerged from bankruptcy, been acquired by a private equity (PE) firm and purchased a like-sized organization named America’s Best. To say it was chaotic, exciting and disruptive to the industry would be an understatement. The catalyst for our project was a… Blog December 14, 2020 Flash Report: CISA Issues Emergency Directive to Mitigate SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise On December 13, 2020, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive detailing required action for federal agencies to mitigate the threat of the recently discovered compromise involving SolarWinds® Orion® Network Management products that are currently being exploited by malicious actors. (Read the SolarWinds Security Advisory here.) Given the nature… Blog December 16, 2020 Recharging Your Agile Transformation The seismic shift in project management functions from administrative to a consultative business partner is helping organizations transform across the enterprise and all areas of the project life cycle. In many companies, these transformational efforts are progressing well, coordinated by new lean-agile program management office (PMO) leaders. But for others, transformation is… Blog December 18, 2020 Flash Report: SolarWinds Vulnerability Update – Indicators of Compromise and Recommended Actions The news of the cyber attacks being experienced by government agencies and an expanding list of organizations continues to grow and change on almost an hourly basis. This is proving to be potentially one of the most significant cyber breaches in recent times. Following up on our December 14, 2020, Flash Report on the CISA advisory, and in response to numerous questions and… Blog December 21, 2020 2020 Privacy Wrap-Up for the European Union and the United States In a year rife with setbacks around the globe, due in large part to the COVID-19 pandemic, November was a fairly busy month for the global advancement of data protection, which will bring real short- and long-term consequences for global organizations. Key Privacy Developments in the United States California Consumer… Load More
