Forbes contributor, Steve Denning, recently interviewed Haydn Shaughnessy, co-author with Dr. Nick Vitalari of The Elastic Enterprise (mentioned earlier in this blog here). Denning suggests that: The Elastic Enterprise is one of at least twenty-four books of a management canon that spells out the implications of coping with the emerging Creative Economy of the 21st Century. In effect, a … [Read more...]
Key Measures of IT: Business Value, not Costs
September 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: September 27, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. In a recent interview of Michelle Bailey, vice president of datacenter initiatives and digital infrastructure with the analyst firm 451 Research, CIO Insight shared her views of what IT leaders ought to be focused on these days. Bailey suggested that IT organizations have … [Read more...]
Exploit, Don’t Enable
August 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: August 30, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Two of my favorite IT researchers, Dr. Cynthia Beath and Dr. Jeanne Ross from the Center for Information Systems Research at MIT (CISR), recently published a blog on the Harvard Business Review blog network about their recent work. They suggest that company leaders can no longer … [Read more...]
Big Data for Revenue Generation, not Cost Savings
August 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: August 2, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Finding new ways to utilize data is on everyone's agenda these days. A recent HBR blog summarized an interesting survey done by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) of large global companies found that companies who made large investments in their big data projects generated excess … [Read more...]
Change is Possible with Reinforcing Processes
July 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 19, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. MIT Sloan School's Erik Brynjolfsson recently addressed a workshop of executives on how to increase the chances of success of big analytics initiatives. His perspective was to focus on the processes. In all the classroom discussions that surfaced around the big issues from big data — … [Read more...]
When IT Isn’t at the Table
July 12, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 12, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Why is there still a disconnect between what IT does and what the business wants? According to the 2013 Cisco Global IT Impact Survey many IT organizations are not as aligned with their business partners as they expect to be. Cisco's survey asked questions of 1,300 IT decision … [Read more...]
Living Life by Numbers
June 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: June 28, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Our world is becoming more numbers driven. We've seen the trend at work, with the emphasis on analytics and the mining of data from our data warehouses. But a recent blog by author and senior researcher at Babson Executive Education, H. James Wilson, articulates how data has begun … [Read more...]
Innovation Strategy at Starbucks: Fail Fast and Learn
June 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: June 7, 2013Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend.Innovation, particularly technology-based innovation, is the lifeblood of organizational growth and therefore a critical part of the CIO's agenda. A recent Fast Company article, Risky Innovation: Will Starbucks’s Leap of Faith Pay Off?, by author Austin Carr, chronicles the … [Read more...]
Performance and Sustainability are no Longer At Odds
May 31, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: May 31, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A thought-provoking blog about energy efficiency and IT performance was recently posted on the CIO Insights blog network. Sam Greengard, a professional writer, shared his thoughts on The Next Generation of Green IT, Today, green computing has gone mainstream in the enterprise. … [Read more...]
Telling The Story with Data Visualization
May 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: May 24, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Inferring meaning from data is a problem usually solved by BI and analysis, but recently I read about using data visualization for some large, complex problems. Harvard Business Review associate editor Gretchen Gavett blogged about her conversation with Linda Boff, GE's executive … [Read more...]
