Dateline: August 5, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Collecting data is one thing, but being able to make sense of what it is telling us and communicating those messages are quite another. This month we are spending time looking at BI, analytics and data management topics. Today our topic is about data visualization. Recently … [Read more...]
Secrets to Building a Data-Driven Culture
July 29, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 29, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. The competitive landscape is shifting rapidly in virtually every industry, fueled by the intelligent application of technology and data. While nearly all companies have more data than they know what to do with, a powerful minority is discovering new ways of leveraging it. Companies … [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...]
Intelligence for Management Learning
July 8, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 8, 2016 Avoiding a $500 million mistake is surely just as valuable as launching a $500 million product. Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently, Harvard Business Review published a blog post about The Right Way to Use Competitive Intelligence. The article, by Benjamin Gilad, author, entrepreneur and former associate … [Read more...]
Digital Ecosystems
July 1, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: July 1, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Last week's idea was from MIT's recent CIO Symposium. Today's idea also came from that event. Professor Peter Weill, Director at CISR research center, moderated a panel session on Thriving Through Digital Ecosystems. The research discussed in that session found that digital … [Read more...]
Tech Forces Shifting the Playing Field…Again
June 3, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: June 3, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Technology can be a CxOs best friend or biggest problem. Recently, Research Analyst Trip Chowdhry from Wall Street firm Global Equities Research pulled together a frightening prediction of massive layoffs due to technology shifts that have eroded the base of many organizations. … [Read more...]
The New Divide: Digital “Haves” and “Have Mores”
May 27, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: May 27, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Lately I've noticed that some companies have very engaging websites and others seem to have old, tired looking websites. But all have websites. Not that long ago, many did not have websites at all. Then I ran across an article by a McKinsey Consulting team (James Manyika, Gary … [Read more...]
Balancing System Changes with Organization Changes
May 20, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: May 20, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Partners Healthcare System rolled out EPIC, the medical records system used by many healthcare providers. The Boston Globe published a story recently about the status of that roll out. Apparently many clinicians feel that it's slowing them down, some to the point of retiring from … [Read more...]
