Tag: analysis

November 30, 2018

When “big data” reached the apex of the technological hype cycle several years ago, one would have been hard-pressed to find an enterprise that wasn’t scrambling to accumulate massive unstructured datasets — whether they needed them or not. The haphazardness […]

November 28, 2018

Congratulations, you built a website. That’s a big moment. But while it’s a huge accomplishment, it’s really only the first step up a pretty formidable mountain. Because now, the questions truly begin. Who’s coming to the site? How did they […]

November 27, 2018

The imperative for enterprises to “deliver the right data to the right people at the right time” may be cliché, but it’s no less true. Technology long ago enabled enterprises to collect and analyze data, which lived in departmental containers […]

November 27, 2018

The new frontier of data management is not really centered on the collection or even the analyzing of data, but on access, consolidation, and sharing, and making that data (even if it’s from two seemingly disparate, unrelated data sources) actionable. […]

November 16, 2018

Technology disruption is a fact of life for business. There is no way to escape its impact whether it be cloud-to-edge computing, blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) or immersive experiences (AR, VR and mixed reality). 1 […]

November 15, 2018

In a recent report, Gartner wrote that most organizations have identified the need to build a data-driven organization, a development reflected by the increasing appointment of chief data officers (CDO). At the same time NewVantage Partners, a consultancy, reports that […]

November 13, 2018

A 2017 article in Forbes posed an intriguing question: Data rules the world, but who rules the data? The organizations that collect it, the systems that store it, or the analysts who decipher it? The fact that the question is […]

November 12, 2018

IT departments are comprised of individuals with their own unique talents, goals, and levels of emotional investment. Like a skillful conductor, the effective CIO must be a champion and mentor for these individual contributors, wedding their individual efforts and self-interest […]

November 9, 2018

There’s a common misconception about working with headhunters, recruiters, and employment agencies: while it’s true that IT recruiters can be valuable matchmakers, connecting talented technology professionals with companies in need of their skills and experience, these firms work for employers, […]

November 8, 2018

Innovation is about disrupting the comfortable for the sake of improvement. No one innovates to decrease a process or reduce the benefit. People innovate to bring life to a higher plane because improvement is a deeply held instinct. Yet innovation […]