Chatter Data: What Are We Thinking About?

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...]

Creating and Managing Analytics Capability

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...]

Managing Agile

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...]

Security and the Internet of Things

Dateline: October 31, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Tonight is Halloween, our 'holiday' to explore the scary and creepy.  In keeping with this theme, this week’s idea combines two very 'scary' topics for many IT leaders: security and the Internet of Things.  Recently, Kevin Beaver, an information security consultant and … [Read more...]

Top Analytics Challenges for CxOs

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

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...]

Predictive Analytics Gold Rush?

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...]

Increasing CIO-CMO Alignment

Dateline: September 19, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea about the alignment of CIOs and CMOs comes from a recent post on the HBR Blog Network by Mike Sutcliff, group chief executive of Accenture Digital, titled CMOs and CIOS Increasingly See Eye to Eye.   The Accenture annual survey of CIOs and CMOs found that … [Read more...]

Designing Intuitive Technology

Dateline: September 12, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from a column titled, "The Social Business Gets Results", written by Sam Greengard at Baseline Magazine. ...in the rapidly unfolding digital age, it's clear that electronic interaction is systematically remapping and rewiring the central nervous … [Read more...]

Business Unit- IT Alignment on the Internet of Things

Dateline: September 5, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s thought builds on our earlier post on the "Internet of Things."  Baseline Magazine reported findings from a recent study by Gartner of 400 IT professionals in the UK and the US about the readiness of IT organization for the impact of adding so many devices to … [Read more...]