Dateline: May 17, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Last week we discussed analytics and the blocks many organizations face as they move up the analytics maturity curve. This week we look at the benefits of combining big data and mobile. Cameron Clayton of the Weather Company outlines how companies can harness data via mobile in his … [Read more...]
Bottlenecks to Analytics
May 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: May 10, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. High on the list of important technologies for most organizations today is analytics and business intelligence. Recently Editors from MIT's Sloan Management Review and SAS's Chief Research Officer held a webinar to share results of their research study on the use of analytics. They … [Read more...]
Managing New Ways to Work
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Dateline: April 19, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent Harvard Business Review article by Tammy Johns and London Business School Professor Lynda Gratton suggests that there have been 3 waves of change in the way knowledge workers work in their article, The Third Wave of Virtual Work. In three major waves of change over the past … [Read more...]
Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee- A Management Message by Muhammad Ali
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Dateline: April 12, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. One of my friends and colleagues published a great blog recently offering Enterprise Startup Lessons from Muhammad Ali. Michael Krigsman, President of Asuret, and frequent blogger on lessons from IT Failures for ZD Net, interviewed the CEO of a startup analytics vendor, comparing … [Read more...]
Building A ‘Touch First’ Business Model
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Dateline: March 1, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Our thought for today comes from an article written by Ewan Duncan, a McKinsey consultant, published in the Economist. The article, Moving from “Mobile First” to “Touch First” documents research that McKinsey and Company has conducted on fundamental changes in the way people interact … [Read more...]
Gartner’s Predictions: IT Trends for 2013
February 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: February 22, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, Gartner published their annual state-of-the-CIO survey results. They concluded that today’s senior IT leaders are in a period of transition, realizing that there is so much more potential to harness from today’s technology. CIO Insight summarized the findings with this … [Read more...]
Planning for Perpetual Connectivity
January 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 25, 2013 Welcome the Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Forrester analyst Melissa Parrish blogged about enterprise mobility and how “perpetual connectivity will change the world.” She reported that more than ½ of US consumers own smartphones and 20% own a tablet, supporting the predictions of rapid proliferation of devices, and the impact … [Read more...]
