Dateline: March 10, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Cybersecurity is increasingly an organization-wide concern, and successful cybersecurity plans cover all aspects of the organization, and involve all levels of the staff. The World Economic Forum recently published an article, How to Prepare for the cyberattack that is coming to … [Read more...]
The Cyber Battleground is Inside, Not at the Perimeter
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Dateline: February 3, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Executives still have the wrong focus on how to manage cybersecurity. Recently Information Management published CEOs Reveal Cyber Naivete as Incidents Rise and Losses Mount where editor David Weldon wrote, While CEOs remain confident that their cyber strategies are well … [Read more...]
Creating a Safety Culture for Cybersecurity
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Dateline: January 27, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. A recent Sloan Management Review article interviewing Professor Stuart Madnick, director of MIT’s Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (IC)³, pointed out how far away we are from protecting our organizations from cybersecurity … [Read more...]
Managing Cybersecurity is More Than Just Good Hardware and Software
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Dateline: January 20, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Continuing with our focus on cybersecurity, today's thought comes from a recent Sloan Management Review article interviewing Professor Stuart Madnick, director of MIT’s Interdisciplinary Consortium for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (IC)³. Professor Madnick … [Read more...]
Cybersecurity In The Boardroom
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Dateline: January 13, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Cybersecurity has become a boardroom topic now that executives realize how devastating a breach can be. Recently, Information Management published an article, Why Cybersecurity Leapt From the Basement to the Boardroom, reporting that spending on cybersecurity is up about 8% … [Read more...]
Why the C-Suite Needs to Know about Machine Learning
December 2, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: December 2, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Machine learning has become a major topic among executives as computing costs have decreased and AI and analytics capabilities have increased. The next big frontier for extracting value from company data is an automated approach where the system learns as it processes data. … [Read more...]
C-suite Involvement from Day One Makes Analytics Investments Pay Off
November 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 25, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This is the third (and last) quote from an insightful article by McKinsey consultants Helen Mayhew, Tamim Saleh, and Simon Williams. This week, our thought provoking idea from the article, Making Data Analytics Work For you Instead of the Other Way Around, is about C-suite … [Read more...]
The Real Goal of Analytic Projects: Adoption, Adoption, Adoption
November 18, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 18, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Last week I shared a quote from an insightful article by McKinsey consultants Helen Mayhew, Tamim Saleh, and Simon Williams. This week, we pull another idea from the article, Making Data Analytics Work For you Instead of the Other Way Around, that suggests that adoption be … [Read more...]
Look In-between the Data Sets for New Insights
November 11, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 11, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Recently I ran across a very insightful article about getting value from your analytics investments, written by Helen Mayhew, Tamim Saleh, and Simon Williams, a team of McKinsey consultants. The article, Making Data Analytics Work For you Instead of the Other Way Around, … [Read more...]
Getting Ready for Self-Service Analytics
November 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: November 4, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Analytics and new ways to extract value are consuming an increasing amount of attention from CIOs. One of the newest 'trends' is building analytics tools that are self-service, that is business staff can use them without the intervention of data scientists. These tools have … [Read more...]
