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
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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...]
Management is Not Leadership
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Dateline: May 3, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. John Kotter, a former professor at Harvard Business School, has spent over 40 years studying businesses and those that lead them. In 1990 he wrote a classic article for the Harvard Business Review about the difference in leaders and managers, titled What Leaders Really Do. Recently, he … [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...]
Leading Change Takes More Than Just a Great Leader
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Dateline: April 5, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent blog on the HBR Blog Network (published by Harvard Business Review) featured a thought piece entitled, "Change Management is Bigger than Leadership" by Wharton Adjunct Professor Gregory Shea and his associate, Cassie Solomon (they are authors of a new book, Leading Successful … [Read more...]
Brainstorming Doesn’t Work
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Dateline: March 29, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent Fast Company article, Why Innovation by Brainstorming Doesn’t Work, caught my eye. Author Debra Kaye shared some thoughts on innovation from her recent book, Red Thread Thinking. She begins by saying that “anything, even doing laundry, will help you dream up new ideas … [Read more...]
IT Relationship Managers Drive Business-IT Convergence
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Dateline: March 22, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP - one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent blog by friend and colleague Vaughan Merlyn outlined the current way of thinking about IT relationship managers and their importance in driving business-IT convergence. Since the shift for IT organizations is away from alignment (where IT continually tries to make sure they … [Read more...]
Not Everyone is a Leader
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Dateline: March 15, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent blog at Forbes by leadership mythbuster Mike Myatt challengingly titled “Why You’re Not a Leader” suggests that not everyone is suited to lead, even if they want to be a leader. Everybody thinks they’re a leader – most are far from it. The harsh reality is that we live in a … [Read more...]
