Jim MacLennan

Jim MacLennan is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at IDEX Corporation, a Fortune 1000 manufacturer that sells highly engineered products in a variety of markets worldwide. MacLennan has responsibility for Corporate IT services for all IDEX business units, and also drives innovation through initiatives that leverage Information and Technology as growth drivers for the industrial manufacturing space. He regularly publishes his observations and insights on the intersection of business and technology - check out his work at www.cazh1.com.
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The Next Next Big Thing

Part of my job has always dealt with looking into the future…

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Records Retention for Industrial Manufacturers

the practice of maintaining records for an organization from the time they…

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Marketing and IT Get Together: The Elephants in the Room

Disclaimer: I am (possibly unfairly) generalizing about two general classes of Business…

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Moving Beyond Smart Part Numbers

During a process review session this week, I got involved in a…

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Developing an IT Strategy: Timing

In some companies, IT struggles to find a voice amid the other…

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Google+ is Active, not Passive, Social Networking

This past week saw the introduction of Google+, the search behemoth’s entry…

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The Hegemony of Large Numbers – Ignoring Common Sense

Ok, maybe I’m stretching the meaning there, but that’s a cool sounding…

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Data Darwinism: Market Driven Data Quality

Just trying a little contrarian thought this week … Have you ever…

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Learning About Data Visualization

Even though there is an art to visualization design, it stands to…

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Art and Science of Data Visualization (Part 2)

Just a little more theory and background on Data Visualization, to eat…

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