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Walled Gardens and the Value of Innovation: Questions for Bill Franks

March 15, 2011 by Robin Carey
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Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer at Teradata

Two interesting articles of note in the current Harvard Business Review, one, an interview with John (“I’m not Meg Whitman”) Donahoe, the new CEO of eBay, and a fascinating piece about creating a “culture of experimentation” coincide perfectly with my recent talk with Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer at Teradata.   ... [read more]

Operational decision making as a corporate asset

January 20, 2010 by James Taylor
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I often tell companies and other organizations that they should treat decisions and decision making as assets. In Smart (Enough) Systems, the book I wrote with Neil Raden, we said Operational Decision Making as a Corporate Asset If operational decisions must be made well for your organization to deliver on its strategy, they can’t be... [read more]

A Very Good Year

December 23, 2009 by Robin Carey
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SmartData Collective began life in the fall of 2007, under the sponsorship of Teradata, joining the other “collaboration” sites that make up the Social Media Today family. As we near the end of SmartData Collective’s first full year in existence, we can happily report we have enjoyed significant growth in the past twelve months: growth... [read more]

Dynamic Business Processes and IBM BlueWorks

May 5, 2009 by James Taylor
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Craig Hayman presented some interesting statistics to kick off - 83% of CEOs expect significant change yet 76% of IT budgets is spent on maintenance. BPM BlueWorks is one of IBM’s new products - very like AlignSpace - and Craig kicked off a demo. The web environment provides lots of information about process modeling and tools to... [read more]