One-to-One Client Focus
Brand consistency, quality messaging and succinct offers are necessary components to achieving that one-to-one marketing connection… despite best efforts, we’re…
“Why taking a few punches on the financial crisis just might save IT” by Patrick Gray on TechRepublic
Back on April 27th I wrote an article, The scope of IT’s responsibility when businesses go bad, that was inspired…
Data is still defensible
In Is Data a new defensibility? Abhishek Tiwari argues that even data is not defensible any more. He argues that…
Will the Real “Meaningful Use” Please Stand Up?
Last time, I gave an update on the SAS Health and Life Sciences Executive Conference that was recently held on…
The #1 job of every CIO
Reading these two surveys from CIOInsight got me thinking....#1 - Top Ways the CIO Role is Changing From CIOInsight: "2009 CIO…
Smarter Railroads Embedded intelligence, analytics and…
Smarter Railroads Embedded intelligence, analytics and optimization are reshaping the granddaddy of the transportation industry (via IBM - Smarter Railroads)The…
Analyst Skills are Hot
BusinessWeek recently reported (listen to podcast) that there are over 3 million jobs available in the US. Of that, one…
The Two Speeds to Implement Performance Management – Both Bad
One of the problems that impedes organizations from successfully implementing the Performance Management framework is the pace at which executives…
SAP selects Zementis as a winner in the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Development Contest
Recently, SAP sponsored a contest that challenged the developer community to create and demonstrate the most innovative use of SAP…
Open Source Analytics Reaches Main Street (and Some Other Trends in Analytics)
This is the first of three posts about systems, applications, services and architectures for building and deploying analytics. Sometimes this…