Cyber Security’s Weakest Link

Dateline: April 14, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Keeping your information systems safe and cyber secure is a challenge under the best of circumstances.  Bad actors abound, trying to steal data, disrupt systems, and general cause chaos.  Building a secure environment is more than just getting the right technology in place.  The … [Read more...]

Creating a Safety Culture for Cybersecurity

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...]

Secrets to Building a Data-Driven Culture

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...]

It’s Time To Celebrate Your Successes

Dateline: January 1, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Happy New Year!  Today is an important day for many.  So today's thought for the day is around celebrating. Recently, I ran across a thoughtful blog post titled, "You'll Never Succeed if You Don't Celebrate," written by Tim Mullen (Co-Founder and Head of Customer Experience … [Read more...]

Innovation Secret: Culture Wins over Strategy

Dateline: November 15, 2013 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Innovation can be an elusive goal for some organizations. Corporate strategist and author Chris Potts recently wrote a thought provoking piece for Information Week suggesting Innovation Stalled? Bad Culture Defeats Good Strategy. Potts writes, Why do some organizations … [Read more...]