The Impact of the Industrial Internet on Data
Impact of the Industrial Internet At the recent Bosch Connected World conference in Berlin, Stefan Bungart, Software Leader Europe at GE, presented a very interesting keynote, “How Data Eats the...
View ArticleA Tale of Two CDOs: Is It “Chief Digital Officer” or “Chief Data Officer”?
A Tale of Two CDOs I recently had the opportunity to participate in the “CDO Summit,” hosted by the CDO Club and Capgemini Consulting. While the CDO in this case meant Chief Digital Officer, I noticed...
View ArticleEverybody‘s Doing It! Learn how at Informatica World 2015!
Learn more at Informatica World 2015 Everybody’s doing it. And if not, they say they are doing it anyway! Are you doing it? We all hear the mantra: ‘Data is an asset’. Everybody wants to get in on...
View ArticleHow Everyday Business Users will Leverage Data in the Near Future
How Everyday Business Users will Leverage Data in the Near Future I recently had a conversation with a prospective customer that was a Major League Baseball franchise. It is truly amazing to see the...
View ArticleThe Need for Full Life-cycle Data Management
Over the last 35-40 years we have been struggling with many aspects of enterprise data management. It seems to me that in large part this is due to neither the software industries nor customers having...
View Article4 Reasons to Build a Data-Ready Organization
4 Reasons to Build a Data-Ready Organization In the new computing age of engagement, the world of data expands beyond transaction data in database applications and in cloud services to include...
View ArticleThe State of Enterprise Data is a Business Problem
Many CFOs Manually Manage Their Data When I talk to business leaders including CFOs, they tell me data is an issue. They tell me in particular that they worry about the integrity of the data from each...
View ArticleYour Data is Speaking. But are you Listening?
Earlier in my career, I worked for a several billion dollar company. The company was filled with smart people that liked to have big fun. But the company was also built upon a vision of the market...
View ArticleIs Big Data Buzz Distracting you from the Data Movement Fueled by Tableau &...
Are people at your company using next-generation analytical tools such as tableau and Qlik? If you answered yes, then your organization is one of the growing list of 32,000 organizations using QlikView...
View ArticleCIO Leadership: Preparing the Enterprise for Realities of Today’s Business
When I was in graduate school taking a Master’s in Business Strategy, I got to take a class in futures research. I walked away from this class with a number of rather sobering insights about the...
View ArticleHamilton Faris, Chief Data and Analytics Officer for the Americas at MetLife,...
Hamilton Faris, Chief Data & Analytics Officer of the Americas at MetLife “Data and analytics are foundational to our business. It’s the lifeblood of our customer-centricity strategy,” says...
View ArticleLeading in an Era of Digital Disruption
Last week, I attended the “Road to Reinvention: Leadership in the Digital Age” put on by the UCI Center for Digital Transformation. To be honest from the first presentation, I was amazed how three...
View Article9 Governmental Actions Regarding Digital Disruption
Several years ago, I read Geoffrey Moore’s book, “Dealing with Darwin”. In this book, Geoffrey suggested that successful companies must evolve their competencies or they will become marginalized. The...
View ArticleTime to Restore Data Analytics’ Competitive Edge
Time to Restore Data Analytics’ Competitive Edge Data analytics is giving organizations the edge in their markets, right? Maybe not as much as before, if some MIT researchers are right. Many...
View ArticleUnlocking the Value of Advanced Analytics
At Informatica World, JP Morgan Chase shared how to unlock the value of Advanced Analytics Unlocking the Value of Advanced Analytics“I wouldn’t be surprised if we started to see the number of physical...
View ArticleLife Time Fitness at Informatica World 2016
How Informatica and Microsoft Support Life Time’s “Cloud First” Strategy Life Time Fitness at Informatica World 2016 Life Time Fitness, a Minneapolis-based company that runs more than a hundred fitness...
View ArticleThe Need for Enterprise Information Management (EIM) in Insurance
The Insurance industry is looking at how Enterprise Information Management (EIM) enables it to cope with the challenges ahead. 2016 – the year of EIM 2016 can be seen to be a significant year in which...
View ArticleAre Insurance Companies in Danger of Digital Disruption?
A major analyst firm that will go unnamed thinks so. According their research, digital disruption is one of the most important factors impacting the insurance industry today. Making matters worse this...
View ArticleTurn off the Firehose: There May Be Such a Thing as Too Much Data
The title for this article, “How More Data Can Make You Wrong,” made me want to read it. It’s a statement that flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that more data is good. Yet, when you really...
View ArticleUsing Data to Delight Guests: How Hyatt Wins Customers
Using Data to Delight Guests: How Hyatt Wins Customers “Data is what makes it possible for Hyatt colleagues to provide a personalized experience that guests do not forget. Thanks to the relationship...
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