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CIOs Focusing Less on Infrastructure, More on Innovation

November 28, 2011 by Ann All
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"Still, most CIOs can't just yank out their existing IT infrastructures and move to the cloud. Optimizing legacy infrastructure while freeing up funding for more strategic initiatives is a key challenge for CIOs. When Constellation Research published a report listing four personas CIOs would need to master — chief infrastructure officer, chief intelligence officer, chief integration officer and chief innovation officer — Constellation CEO Ray Wang noted infrastructure still commands the lion's share of the budget, 65 percent to 70 percent." [read more]

Microsoft Focuses Big Data Efforts on Hadoop

November 21, 2011 by Alex Olesker
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"Microsoft announced that it would not be moving forward with a production release of LINQ to HPC, something that was an alternative distributed Big Data platform. Codenamed Dryad, LINQ to HPC would have been Microsoft’s proprietary alternative to Hadoop, designed to run Big Data jobs on clusters of Windows servers. Instead, they are focusing their efforts on developing Hadoop distributions for Windows Servers and Azure" [read more]

Analytics-Driven Companies See Competitive Advantage: IBM-MIT Study

November 19, 2011 by Joe McKendrick
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"In recent years, there have been a lot of anecdotal accounts of analytics making a positive impact on business growth — and now a new study of 4,500 executives provides some data points to back this up." [read more]

Master Data Management: Does an Effective Solution Exist?

November 9, 2011 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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"Organisations are spending very large amounts of money on their Master Management programmes and they want to ensure their investment is sound. However, in most large organisations, managing master data is a very complex problem that technology alone will not solve." [read more]

Business, IT Must Meet Half Way to Form Partnership

October 8, 2011 by Ann All
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Given the focus of this blog, I was quite interested in a CFO.com article titled Your CIO, Your Problem, which is presented a way for the CFO to get to know his or her CIO better for a stronger working relationship. It's interesting to see, given the sometimes tenuous relationship between the two business functions. I've written about... [read more]

Biggest Collaboration Challenge: Making It Central to Workflow

August 29, 2011 by Ann All
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"Writing on her Beyond the Cube blog, Laurie Buczek, who identifies herself as an enterprise marketing manager for a Fortune 100 company (Intel, according to her LinkedIn profile), discusses her decision to return to external marketing after two-and-a-half years in a role that involved introducing social technologies to improve internal collaboration." [read more]

IT: Do You Want to Sell Sugar Water or Do You Want to Change the World?

August 29, 2011 by Chris Dixon
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“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?” – Steve Jobs I sometimes wish that instead of working on internet and software projects, I worked on cleantech or biotech projects. That way, when I came home at night, I’d know that I had literally spent my day trying to cure cancer or... [read more]

Aiding an Analytics Enthusiast

August 24, 2011 by Bill Franks
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In my last blog, I wrote about the pitfalls of allowing “Bob The Marketing Guy” to build complex analytics or models using a user friendly tool, when he doesn’t really know what he is doing. Well, we cannot just tell Bob he can’t do analytics. We have to provide him with a solution to his needs. So, how do we help Bob help himself? [read more]

LinkedIn and Hiring: Dream. Fit. Passion.

August 22, 2011 by Daniel Tunkelang
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A few days ago, our CEO Jeff Weiner led a session at LinkedIn on how to “close” candidates — that is, how to persuade candidates to join your team once you have found and interviewed them. Since not everyone has the opportunity to work at LinkedIn and experience Jeff’s leadership first-hand, I thought I’d share some of his wisdom here.... [read more]

BI and Car Wrecks

August 16, 2011 by Doug Lautzenheiser
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"This is the 120th anniversary of an amazing event: the very first automobile accident....Of course, wrecking cars is just a lead-in to argue that large companies often wrestle away good ideas from innovators and stomp the life out of them." [read more]

Who is Your Real Customer: IT or the Business?

August 12, 2011 by Terri Rylander
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"While much has been said about closing the gap between the business and IT, not much has been said about creating a marketing message that does so. As proof, I’m writing a white paper right now, geared ONLY to the IT reader that addresses only architecture, data, and security topics. The goal is to get IT on board with a product that the business already wants or even has." [read more]

Maximizing the Value of On-demand Business Intelligence for Small and Medium Enterprises

August 12, 2011 by Rick Sherman
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"Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are just as concerned with maximizing the value of their data as large enterprises. This webinar will explore the business and technology trends that have made BI accessible to SMEs." [read more]

In Defense of IT

August 9, 2011 by MIKE20 Governance Association
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Business leaders often criticize IT for their inability to get with the times. Do the following questions sound familiar? Why haven’t we embraced the cloud? What’s our open source strategy? What are we doing with mobility? Well, in this post, it’s time to put these criticisms into context–and partially let IT off of the hook. Learning... [read more]

Want to Disprove a CEO’s Wishful Thinking? Use Analytics.

August 9, 2011 by Gary Cokins
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"How often have you heard executives proclaim that next year the target for financial results will be a substantial lift from the current year? For example a CEO may state, “Next year we expect to improve from a 10.3% to 15.4% rate of return on shareholder equity.” Is this leadership or wasted words?" [read more]

Dispelling the Myths and Bringing BI to the Enterprise

August 8, 2011 by Mark Bradbourne
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"There are many challenges to starting and maintaining a successful Business Intelligence program, starting with finding a strong, engaged business sponsor, finding the right skill sets and team members, selecting tools and technologies, defining the requirements and developing a data model that can deliver those KPIs that the business needs to make effective and informed decisions. All of these things happen AFTER the business has decided that they need BI in their enterprise environment, so the question I’d like to attempt to answer today it how does one person, or a group of people, bring BI to the Enterprise?" [read more]

Putting SharePoint Genie Back into the Bottle

August 2, 2011 by Ann All
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"Just about every time I write about SharePoint, sharing the advice of consultants and other experts, I mention lack of governance as a common problem and offer steps to address it. Just last month I mentioned results of a recent AIIM survey in which 46 percent of respondents named a lack of strategic plans on how to use SharePoint as their biggest ongoing issue with the software." [read more]