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Six steps to creating a successful IT strategy: A guide for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Step 5: Gap analysis Identifying gaps The gap analysis involves comparing the current state of IT with the desired future state as outlined in the IT strategy. This process identifies discrepancies in capabilities, resources, and processes that could hinder the achievement of business goals.

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Beyond the hype: Key components of an effective AI policy

CIO Business Intelligence

An AI policy serves as a framework to ensure that AI systems align with ethical standards, legal requirements and business objectives. Assessment and gap analysis Amazon faced scrutiny when its AI-powered recruiting tool was found to exhibit bias against women. Steps to develop and implement an AI policy 1.

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How to unlock a scientific approach to change management with powerful data insights

IBM Big Data Hub

Leveraging data to replace the ‘gut feel’ on which too many business decisions are made enables change practitioners to separate perceptions from reality and decide which processes need the most focus. Process mining tools can perform a fit-gap analysis on new processes to rapidly and more accurately identify the greatest change impacts.

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Eating the Elephant of Data Strategy

Paul Blogs on BI

While the current state subject matter expertise is likely to be internal, the future state and gap analysis is often better performed by Data Architects and consultants who have done this exercise before and can bring both experience and current technology/methodology knowledge to the table.