Dateline: January 30, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, my friend and (former) colleague, Vaughan Merlyn published a short but thoughtful blog titled, "What Should We Be Measuring?" In it, Vaughan summarized his thoughts in two insights, Insight #1: If you want to know what to measure, ask your customer what is … [Read more...]
Davenport’s Law of Common Information
January 23, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 23, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Big data and analytics are all the rage at the moment. At the center of many discussions is my friend and colleague, Dr. Tom Davenport. Recently Tom published a column in the CIO Journal, the Wall Street Journal's area for all things IT, on the Promise and Perils of Common … [Read more...]
Manage Slowly to Move Fast
January 16, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 16, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This weekend's idea comes from a relatively new voice on strategic thinking for IT leaders. Chris Gebhardt, former SWAT and current IT leader, has started a blog, IT Tid-bits about Information Technology. A recent post provided our thought-provoking idea for this week's … [Read more...]
Four P’s of Managing Employees
December 26, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 26, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. For the last post of 2014, we are returning to the topic of employee management. This week’s idea comes from Author, entrepreneur and motivational speaker James Bird Guess. In a recent post on his blog titled, Four Types of Employees Every Leader Must Know, he suggests … [Read more...]
Big Data as a Service
December 19, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 19, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea suggests a framework for Big-Data-As-A-Service (BDaaS). In the age of SaaS, PaaS, and many other as-a-service offerings, BDaaS may be the next big thing. It's the topic of a recent article by Varun Sharma, an Enterprise Architect and "as-a-service" … [Read more...]
Working with Imperfect Data
December 12, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 12, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea is about mitigating the uncertainty that come from analyzing a data set. The thought comes from a recent Sloan Management Review article, Analytical Value from Data That Cries Wolf, written by Professor Sam Ransbotham from the Carroll School of Management … [Read more...]
Chatter Data: What Are We Thinking About?
December 5, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 5, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from an interview with Blake Chandlee, vice president of global partnerships at Facebook, published by Sloan Management Review. Chandler described a category of data that is providing new insights into what people are thinking about when they are just … [Read more...]
The Problem with SDN
November 28, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 28, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Software defined future. As our environments increase in complexity and demand faster response time, manually managing allocation of resources in the IT infrastructure becomes impossible. A software defined network, one that senses and reacts instantly, is the current … [Read more...]
