Dateline: August 11, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Finding jewels in your data is a blast, but some of the jewels can lead to the wrong behaviors, according to a recent opinion article published at Information Management by journalist Lenny Liebmann titled Four Analytics Errors that can Defeat Data Project Efforts. The article … [Read more...]
Reducing Cybersecurity Threats From Ex-Employees
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Dateline: August 4, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Most cybersecurity breaches are aided by insiders...either intentionally or unintentionally. But a recent study showed that ex-employees may also be a threat, but this one is more easily managed with the right processes in place. According to Bob Violino, a free-lance writer … [Read more...]
Cyber Attack Statistics Startling
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Dateline: May 5, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Last week we blogged about the increasing incidence of ransomware attacks. This week we focus on a startling statistic published last week that nearly 90% of organizations say they were victims of cyberattacks in the past 12 months. The statistic comes from a blog at Information … [Read more...]
Ransomware Succeeds Due To People-Oriented Mistakes
April 28, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: April 28, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Have you been the target of ransomware? Recently a post by Greg Slabodkin, the managing editor of Health Data Management, suggested that the epidemic of ransomware is not showing signs of slowing down in a post at Information Management titled, Ransomware epidemic will continue … [Read more...]
Raising a CIO
March 31, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: March 31, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Becoming a CIO continues to be a noble goal for many technology- and business-minded executives. "Every company is an IT company today," as the saying goes, and being the leader of this area can be exciting and impactful. But becoming an effective CIO means having strong … [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...]
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...]
Intuition vs Analytics
August 26, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: August 26, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Trusting analytics results over intuition can be big hurdle for seasoned managers. With years, perhaps decades, of experience and honing skills to make tough decisions, it's a big leap for many to stop trusting their intuition and start trusting recommendations from the data. … [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...]
