Dateline: February 3, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Executives still have the wrong focus on how to manage cybersecurity. Recently Information Management published CEOs Reveal Cyber Naivete as Incidents Rise and Losses Mount where editor David Weldon wrote, While CEOs remain confident that their cyber strategies are well … [Read more...]
Creating a Safety Culture for Cybersecurity
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Dateline: January 27, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent Sloan Management Review article interviewing Professor Stuart Madnick, director of MIT’s Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (IC)³, pointed out how far away we are from protecting our organizations from cybersecurity … [Read more...]
Managing Cybersecurity is More Than Just Good Hardware and Software
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Dateline: January 20, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Continuing with our focus on cybersecurity, today's thought comes from a recent Sloan Management Review article interviewing Professor Stuart Madnick, director of MIT’s Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (IC)³. Professor Madnick … [Read more...]
Cybersecurity In The Boardroom
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Dateline: January 13, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Cybersecurity has become a boardroom topic now that executives realize how devastating a breach can be. Recently, Information Management published an article, Why Cybersecurity Leapt From the Basement to the Boardroom, reporting that spending on cybersecurity is up about 8% … [Read more...]
Efficiency and Effectiveness: Managing to Get More Done
January 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 6, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. To start out the new year, we've taken our one thought for this week from a recent Fast Company post about being more efficient and effective in 2017. The article, This 100-Year-Old To-Do List Hack Still Works Like a Charm, describes a simple process for getting the right work … [Read more...]
Little Changes Add Up To Big Change
December 30, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 30, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Many of us think of ourselves as a change agent--someone who sees things that need to be done, and does them. But when the change is bigger than what one person can do, perhaps we are not so quick to take on the project. Why is that? Recently author Ron Donovan published … [Read more...]
C-suite Involvement from Day One Makes Analytics Investments Pay Off
November 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 25, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This is the third (and last) quote from an insightful article by McKinsey consultants Helen Mayhew, Tamim Saleh, and Simon Williams. This week, our thought provoking idea from the article, Making Data Analytics Work For you Instead of the Other Way Around, is about C-suite … [Read more...]
Reducing Resistance to Analytics Initiatives
October 14, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Efforts to adopt analytics upset the balance of power in the C-suite, and this shift often had a negative impact on analytics initiatives. Dateline: October 14, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. According to a study led by EY Principle Chris McShea, only about 1/3 of the companies in his study achieved their goals for their … [Read more...]
Rethinking IT for Simplicity
July 22, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 22, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, well-known CIO advisor and recruiter, Martha Heller, published an interview with Rich Richardson, CIO of Spirit AeroSystems, about managing complexity in the information systems organization. What caught my eye was the focus on reducing complexity and the value of … [Read more...]
Hiring for Digital Transformation
July 15, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 15, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Does your organization have the right people to take your business to where it needs to be in this age of digital transformation? According to a recent article in CIO Magazine, having the right people on the bus is a major problem for many companies. The article, IT Talent … [Read more...]
