Dateline: November 21, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from a thoughtful post at Harvard Business Review about bottlenecks to progress. Brian McCarthy, Managing Director, Information & Analytics Strategy, for Accenture Analytics recently published a blog titled Beware the Analytics Bottleneck. He … [Read more...]
The Value of Face-to-Face
November 14, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 14, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently Walter Issacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute and author of Steve Job's biography and new book, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution published a column on Linked In titled Why Steve Jobs Obsessed About Office … [Read more...]
Managing Agile
November 7, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 7, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week's idea stems from the increasingly fast paced business environment we all operate in. Just when it feels like we have our hands around a project, something shifts and the race is on again to shift with it. Agile development is the current way IT shops manage this … [Read more...]
Top Analytics Challenges for CxOs
October 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 17, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea come a recent public Twitter Chat about How Analytics is Transforming the Roles of the C-Suite Execs, between Tom Davenport (@Tdav), President’s Distinguished Professor of IT and Management at Babson College, research fellow at the MIT Center for Digital … [Read more...]
IT Focuses More On the Business and Less On Internal Services
October 10, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 10, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from a recent survey of the Society for Information Management (SIM) membership which indicated that IT is in a transition in many organizations. Leon Kappelman, IT Professor at the University of North Texas and the study's lead researcher, was quoted … [Read more...]
What CIOs can Learn from Jimmy Fallon
October 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: October 3, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, author, producer and former actor Jack Stahlmann published a blog about the Leadership Lessons from Jimmy Fallon. Jack's insightful perspective is that Jimmy Fallon has found the perfect fit because of his leadership skills (the 6.5 is Jack's schtick): 1. He … [Read more...]
Predictive Analytics Gold Rush?
September 26, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: September 26, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea come from a blog written my friend , Owen Williams who is the VP & Chief Technology Officer at Tokio Marine North America, Inc. His blog was titled, Predictive/Data Analytics Gold Rush. Owen is a very insightful senior technology leader and in this … [Read more...]
