Dateline: January 19, 2018 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Balancing innovation and cybersecurity can be a challenge. Product design prioritization means that that difficult decisions have to be made about what to include in the design, and often cybersecurity is not above the cut line. Recently, TechTarget interviewed Alissa … [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...]
The New Innovation Agenda
February 26, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: February 26, 2016 For many firms, the innovation agenda is now as much about human capital investment as delivering new products and services. Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. Innovating is the new life breath of most organizations...Innovate or fade into oblivion seems to be the mantra. How do successful companies keep the … [Read more...]
This Is The Year To Focus On Innovation, Not Operations
January 22, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: January 22, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. CIOs who cling to an operational role could find themselves marginalized in the coming years, whereas those who focus on innovation could attain new heights. That is how CIO.com interpreted the findings of a report published by industry research firm, IDC. The report, "The … [Read more...]
Is Shadow IT a Bad Thing?
August 21, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Dateline: August 21, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. IT managers hate shadow IT, or the purchase and management of IT services by business users outside of the IT organization. Why? Because, they think, users just don't know what they are doing when it comes to managing enterprise IT. Often, after purchasing their app, cloud … [Read more...]
The Delicate Path of Managing Legacy Systems
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Dateline: August 7, 2015 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. 'Legacy systems' is not a dirty term, but it may seem so. Recently, Michael Krigsman, a popular ZDNet blogger on IT Project Failures, wrote a thoughtful piece about how CIOs must lead their companies through the delicate path of managing legacy systems, since they get in the way … [Read more...]
Innovation Secret: Culture Wins over Strategy
November 15, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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...]
Killing Innovation in the Organization
November 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Innovation is, to some, the holy grail of continued success. Getting the innovation process right puts an organization on the path of growth and renewal. Recently, Scott Kirsner, editor of Innovation Leader, an information service for corporate innovation executives, and blogger at Harvard Business Review, wrote about 11 ways a big company undermines their own innovation efforts. To summarize, … [Read more...]
