Tag: data

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

Companies in all sectors, everywhere, are continuing to experience cyber-breaches. This is no surprise: as more and more organization embrace digitization, they inevitably become prey to new cyber-dangers and, in turn, need to put much greater emphasis on the availability, […]

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 9, 2018

In the new book, “What is Your Digital Business Model”, Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner claim that no longer can CIOs be merely responsible for back office systems or simply be ‘order takers’. Success at transformation for consumer-focused businesses, they […]

November 7, 2018

The problem with healthcare is simple: there’s not enough of it. In a perfect world we’d all have our own personal physicians like the Queen. But in reality, the average doctor sees thousands of patients a year. Solving this problem […]

November 6, 2018

Recently in a risk management meeting, I watched a data scientist explain to a group of executives why convolutional neural networks were the algorithm of choice to help discover fraudulent transactions. The executives—all of whom agreed that the company needed […]

November 6, 2018

The days of launching products into the marketplace and incrementally improving them every few years with modifications and improvements to keep up with changing tastes and fashions is coming to an end. Customers are becoming more sophisticated as innovative companies […]

November 5, 2018

Enterprises today are experiencing rapid and dramatic changes in the workplace that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. Digital transformation is upon us and the workplace as we know it continues to evolve. Workers have a range […]

November 2, 2018

Humble leaders produce results and develop successful teams because they inspire close teamwork and rapid learning. They understand their own weaknesses, recognize the strengths of others, and focus beyond themselves. They share the credit with their teams, which increases collaboration […]