The Agile Agency: creating the best conditions for awesome
This infographic from the good folks at Gist resonated with me. It summarizes the notion of the Agile Business succinctly…
Analytics BS: 3 Questions to Spot It
There’s a lot of junk analytics around. Some analyses look sophisticated, but are simply incorrect. Others may be mathematically correct,…
How a HIPAA Breach Can Negatively Impact Your Business
According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2011 Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy and Data Security, data security breaches cost the U.S.…
Ungoverned Spaces: Innovating Information Flow
Agile Governance to Ensure that Reliable Information is Available Anywhere Anytime A good many companies now have Information functions in…
Are You Transformed? The MIT Report on Analytics
Are you building a business case for further investments in business analytics? If so, the quarterly journal MIT Sloan Management…
Survey: Everybody Uses Data Better Than Their Competitors?
Here’s a chart from a recent study by the Economist Intelligence Unit called “Big data: Harnessing a game-changing asset”, showing…
Kalido Directs Data Governance
Kalido recently introduced version 9 of its Information Engine product. The company has been around for 10 years but has had difficulty…
Crying “Cyber Attack” in Illinois
Earlier this month, a pump burned out mysteriously at a water plant in Springfield, Illinois. Log data traced the problem…
Extreme Redundancy – Don’t Leave Home Without It!
Visa’s command and control center—somewhere on the east coast of the United States—is a case study in redundancy with intense…
No More CIO? At Forrester, New Title Signals New Approach to IT
Back in 2009 I wrote about Forrester Research CEO George Colony's suggestion that the information technology (IT) function should be…
