Rethinking IT for Simplicity

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...]

Creating and Managing Analytics Capability

Dateline: November 21, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from a thoughtful post at Harvard Business Review about bottlenecks to progress.  Brian McCarthy, Managing Director, Information & Analytics Strategy, for Accenture Analytics recently published a blog titled Beware the Analytics Bottleneck.  He … [Read more...]

The Disruption of BYOx

Dateline: July 11, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from a recent survey done by Solar Winds.  The IT management and monitoring software vendor asked their 100,000 customers on the role of IT in the business, and the most disruptive technologies faced by IT. Their survey results are interesting in many … [Read more...]

KISS- Keeping it Simple

Two recent Fast Company posts by contributor Drake Baer, reminded me of the criticality of simplicity. Baer built his thoughts on The Simplicity Thesis , an article written about a year ago by Aaron Levie, the CEO and co-founder of Box).  His first blog was about the importance of keeping products simple.  Baer writes, Since the mass market is so massive, your product needs to be massively … [Read more...]