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Jul
How to Craft Business Intelligence That Drives Decisions
What makes BI meaningful? Business Intelligence (BI) is a broad domain and is used to accomplish a variety of goals. Whether we’re talking about predictive...
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Jan
Digital Transformation Realities: The CIO’s Perspective in Vignettes
Here’s a fresh look at the findings from the digital transformation market report, From the Front Line: CIOs’ Perspectives on Digital Transformations.
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Oct
Improving Data Quality: The 3 Core Functions of a Data Cleanse
In previous posts, we established that data needs to be clean in order for organizations to make sound decisions, and we introduced a 5-part framework...
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Sep
Becoming a Data-Driven Organization: A 5-Part Framework for Sustainable Data Quality
In a previous post, we’ve established that data needs to be clean in order for organizations to make sound decisions, gain a competitive advantage, and...
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Sep
Data Is to Business as Water Is to Life
It goes without saying that data is critical to make strategic decisions, to run operations, and to perform business functions. Healthcare companies derive analytics from...
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Jun
Shining a Light on Shadow IT
Too often, Shadow IT systems—those not authorized by IT—are used by the business to perform work. Here are a few common examples: A cloud storage system (such...
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Feb
Getting Your Money’s Worth From JD Edwards Software
Implementations start with the best of intentions and the highest of hopes, but most organizations we work with fall short on outcomes from their system investments. JD Edwards is...
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Nov
PODCAST: IT Outcomes & Internal Customer Satisfaction
I was pleased to be interrogated – er, interviewed – by the talented Cassie Crossley on her new podcast, Tech Leaders Today. Please take a listen...
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Oct
That “Status Quo” IT Approach Is Putting You at Risk
You’ve heard the phrase, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” There are many areas in business where that advice may hold true, but your...
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Jul
The Case for Customizing Software
There is ample evidence that, in general, “software customizations are bad.” (So much so you might have nightmares where software customizations are vampires, haunting you,...
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Apr
Underutilized Software Revealed in 4 Complaints
Tweet: Underutilized #Software in 4 Complaints @mpapov http://ctt.ec/dIbrf+ If there is an underutilized software package in your organization, and if you’re listening, you’ll likely hear a...
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Mar
Neglected, Indebted or Gold-Plated: Which Type of IT Do You Have?
We came across an interesting infographic produced by Bain recently and we couldn’t agree more with their strategies for addressing these IT challenges! Take a look:
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