Evaluating Cloud Solutions: How to Create the Right Team for the Job
When your company is evaluating new cloud-based software solutions, it’s important to bring the right people to the table to…
Analytical Cultures: Nurture Yours Through Training
By Anne Milley By Anne MilleyAs an organic gardener with spring approaching, I have seeds and soil on my mind.…
Big Data Ethics: 4 Principles to Follow
The possibilities of big data are enormous, but moving into the big data era carelessly will have massive ethical and…
7 Key Terms for Negotiating Your Cloud Contract
Although cloud computing may be all about digitization and virtualization of your business data, the contract negotiation required for establishing…
What’s Wrong with Today’s Planning and Budgeting
People have been complaining about the budgeting and planning processes in their organizations for decades. If you’re old enough, you…
Data Governance: Managing Data as an Asset
I always find it interesting when people pile onto the company’s latest and most popular project or initiative. People love…
Data Science: Equality at Last!
Despite the vast literature around Big Data, the “Data Agents of Change” are still a mysterious bunch. They are called…
Why Context Matters – Forget Real-Time, Achieve Right-Time
The Real-Time Hype Is Filled With FlawsThe hype around big data, social media, and mobility has many folks imagining the…
Decision Management versus Business Rules
We expanded from Business Rules Management (BRM) to Decision Management a while ago, but I still hear some confusion on…
Run IT as a responsive business, beat the cloud vendors at their own game
The days of information technology departments as cost centers are fading fast. These days, IT is either playing a role…
