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CIO Becomes the New CMO!
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Marketing budgets are now larger than IT budgets & growing faster says Gartner. By 2017, Gartner says that CMO’s will spend more on IT than CIO’s. Interesting how marketing is getting more & more dependent on technology.And yet the Marketer’s perception of internal IT is not very positive. The same Gartner survey has... [read more]
5 Reasons To Be Optimistic About Technology Innovation In The Year Ahead
For many people, it’s been a tough year. Yet, underneath the gloom and rocky economy, we’re seeing buds of a new economy of opportunity emerging, driven in large part by technology. Just as the moribund economy of the early 1980s was fueled in part by Silicon Valley and the software industry, and the moribund economy of the early 1990s... [read more]
A Small Idea with Big Implications
In the 1990s Philippe Kahn, a founder of Borland (a big name in programming languages), left and began a new enterprise called Starfish. He talked in several interviews about creating small lightweight software that ran as part of the desktop or on mobile devices. Today, this seems obvious, but back then it was anything but.... [read more]
How Life Will Be Different--and the Same--in 2072
"In my novel, which I just sent to my agent on Friday, I asked myself at every juncture how much "Jetsons" to put into it. But I kept reminding myself that 2072, in many areas, probably won't feel all that different from what we live today. The one difference, and the key focus in the story, has to do with the exponential growth of computing." [read more]
2000-2010: How Technology Changed the Way We Work
2000-2010 brought about some rapid advances in enterprise technology. From cloud computing to SaaS, small and large businesses alike became equipped with cheaper, more efficient programs to conduct their operations. Improvements in web technology and the increased availability of information leveled the playing field for start-ups,... [read more]
"We have lots of information technology...We just do not have any information."
a common problem in many organizations, but a solvable one:-) [read more]
Food+Tech Connect: Promoting a Networked Food System
food+tech connect | promoting a networked food system Created by shiftN, this map visualizes the global interconnections among food, agriculture, water, energy, soil, and humans that comprise our food system. What fascinates me about this map is how I discovered it and how that process demonstrates an opportunity for information... [read more]
Solving the MDM Problem is Not Easy.
Master Data Management is inherently challenging. Technology alone will not solve the problem – most of the root causes issues are process and competency-oriented: Organisations typically have complex data quality issues with master data, especially with customer and address data from legacy systems There is often a high... [read more]
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General John Handy is the just the kind of guy you want with you in a foxhole, if the foxhole were flying at 10,000 feet. Over a 39-year career in the U.S. armed services, he was a pilot, a wing commander, the Vice Chief of the Air Force and finally the guy who ran the equivalent of UPS and travel service for the Pentagon (U.S.... [read more]
e2.0 Iterativ Project Method: Defining business needs and drivers (post 2 or 5)
This is number 2 in a series of five post. Inthe previous post I started outlining a basicmethodology for implementing e2.0 (social enterprise) initiatives that I callthe Iterative Project Method. Before we dive into the first phase of themethodology, “Define business needs / drivers” I will reinforce a few key ideas. First, because... [read more]
Integration of this blog with twitter.com
I have been using twitter.com to a greater degree over the last few months and thought that it would make sense to better integrate my blog with this site. Accordingly recent posts, including this one, now have a link at the bottom (between the main text and the bookmarks) enabling readers to directly “tweet” the piece. This appears... [read more]
“Why do CFOs and CEOs hate IT? - ERP” - Thomas Wailgum at CIO.com
This is my second article in response to pieces by Thomas Wailgum at CIO.com (you can read the first one here). In Thomas’ latest piece, entitled Why CFOs and CEOs Hate IT: ERP, he touches on an area of which I have lengthy experience, ERP. I spent the first eight years of my career working for a a software house, whose central product... [read more]
A business intelligence parable
Once upon a time there were two technology companies, both operating in the Corporate On-Line Analysis market. On was called Credible Organisational KPI Enterprise (IT people love acronyms so much that they sometimes even nest them) and the other was known as Predictive Enlightenment Powered by Statistical Inference. However, both... [read more]
Neil Raden’s thoughts on Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence
Industry luminary Neil Raden, founder of Hired Brains, has weighed into the ongoing debate about Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence on his Intelligent Enterprise blog. The discussions were spawned by comments made by Jim Davis, Chief Marketing Officer of SAS, at a the recent SAS Global Forum. Neil was in the audience when Jim... [read more]
Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence
“Business intelligence is an over-used term that has had its day, and business analytics is now the differentiator that will allow customers to better forecast the future especially in this current economic climate.” Jim Davis SVP and Chief Marketing Officer, SAS Institute Inc. The above quote is courtesy of an article reported on... [read more]
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When: Thu, 2012-05-24 08:00
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“Hi Farnaz,I think the graph type shown in your article is a scatterplot, not a bubble plot. And scatterplots are not an invention of the 'Big Data' age. In fact, they were invented way back in 1833 by Sir John Frederick W. Herschel.It's tough to get an exact definition of Bubble Plot, but when I think of the differences between Bubble and Scatter, I think of aggregation levels. Bubble plots ...”
“David, I'm not so sure that the judge had ruled that the API's are copyrightable. You write, "where it was decided that Google's re-implementation of Java APIs in the Android OS did infringe Oracle's copyright." As of this morning on Friday, May 11th, Judge Alsup has not ruled on that issue.See Grocklaw at: Oracle's Denied Motion For JMOL on Fair Use, as ...”