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Transformation in the era of big data and analytics #iod11

October 25, 2011

Steve Mills opened up the discussion talking about Big Data, making the point that the art of the possible when it comes to data has been growing steadily for many years – though the current explosion in data is pretty impressive. For instance 1.3B RFID tags in 2005 and 30B in 2010, 4.6B mobile phones [...]

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Does IT management think about predictive analytics in the cloud?

October 3, 2011

I have been reviewing the first set of responses to our Predictive Analytics in the Cloud survey over at SmartData Collective and there are a couple of interesting demographic notes. First there is a complete absence of IT Management. We have a pretty good sprinkling of IT Executive Leadership – not as many as Line [...]

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CIOs are getting serious about business rules and decision management

August 18, 2011

My friends at Corticon had an interesting press release today about a survey they just conducted – More Than 40 Percent of CIOs and CTOs Surveyed Plan to Automate Decision Management Processes. There were some interesting results in this. First, as their headline notes, we are starting to get some serious consideration of automated decision-making, [...]

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IBM’s Big Data Platform and Decision Management

May 24, 2011

IBM has recently announced a new strategy for bringing Big Data to the enterprise. In particular this includes InfoSphere Streams v2 (announced April 12) and InfoSphere BigInsights 1.1 announced today. Big Data is an issue, of course, largely because the amount of data available to organizations is growing rapidly. Surveys show that many managers already [...]

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The Essential CIO and Decision Management

May 18, 2011

IBM recently surveyed CIOs as part of their ongoing CxO research. This was the second time they did this – 2009 was the first. They just released the results of their analysis of the 3,000 interviews they conducted in 71 countries. The results are summarized in the body of the post along with some Decision [...]

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Opening keynotes at IBM IMPACT 2011

April 11, 2011

Nancy Pearson and David Farrell kicked off the main event. 8,000 people at IBM IMPACT apparently and Nancy introduced the key themes – helping companies optimize for growth and focus on delivering results. The topics are based on a continued focus on getting business and IT to work together (a key theme of Decision Management [...]

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SAS Webinar – Business Analytics 101

November 18, 2010

[ December 15, 2010; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] I am presenting at a SAS webinar Business Analytics 101 on December 15th with Anne Milley and Tapan Patel of SAS. I will be presenting my thoughts on analytics and on a recent CIO Magazine/SAS study that was written up in a MarketPulse paper “From Data to Differentiator” (registration required). You can register for the [...]

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Speaking at the CIO Network’s Leadership Forum in San Francisco

November 16, 2010

[ December 7, 2010; 9:30 am to 10:30 am. ] I am going to be speaking at the CIO Network’s Leadership Forum in San Francisco. I will be on stage with Bill Lewis, head of BI and analytics at The Gap talking about bringing analytics to bear in operations. The format will be a discussion with questions from the invite-only audience of CIOs. I will [...]

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The power of analytics at the IBM CIO Leadership Exchange

March 31, 2010

I recently spoke on analytics to IBM’s CIO Leadership Exchange and wrote a short piece about it for Smart Data Collective. Here are the videos IBM took. First, my presentation (about 12 minutes):

(If this won’t play, try this link)
Then the Q&A between me, the CTO of Bank of America and the CIO of Lufthansa Passenger [...]

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The power of business analytics

March 24, 2010

Syndicated from Smart Data Collective
I recently presented at IBM’s CIO Leadership Exchange on the power of business analytics. With 300+ of IBM’s top CIO customers this was a great event and it is clear that CIOs the world over are keen to adopt business analytics. They recognize, I believe, that they are [...]

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Speaking at the IBM CIO Leadership Exchange

January 15, 2010

[ March 9, 2010 to March 10, 2010. ] I am speaking at the 2010 CIO Leadership Exchange, hosted by IBM Chairman, President and CEO, Sam Palmisano. The forum has been designed around the theme of “Leadership for a Smarter Planet” and will explore how CIOs are tapping business analytics, systems and infrastructures, and new IT value models. The program will provide access to [...]

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Decision management and the top 4 concerns of CIOs

September 29, 2009

Syndicated from ebizQ
I was reading an article on The top 10 CIO concerns and I was struck by the first four:

Business productivity and cost reduction
IT and business alignment
Business agility and speed to market
Business process re-engineering

It seemed to me, reading this list, that all four of these were concerns that could be addressed [...]

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To Hell with Business Intelligence, try Decision Management.

February 11, 2009

Syndicated from b-eye network
Well that headline probably got your attention. It came from an article on CIO Magazine:To Hell with Business Intelligence: 40 Percent of Execs Trust Gut.
According to recent research from Accenture, nearly half (40 percent) of major corporate decisions are based on the good ‘ole gut.
Interesting. But why?
61 percent said it was because [...]

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Chief Decision Officer?

September 15, 2008

Mitch Betts’ blog brought an interesting article to my attention this week – an interview Accenture chief scientist Kishore Swaminathan in which he argues that CIOs need to move up the value chain and become Chief Intelligence Officers. I kinda like this but I would not equate being a Chief Intelligence Officer with data but [...]

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Integrating the enterprise and fueling innovation

May 22, 2008

Mark Hennessy the CIO from IBM presented on his perspective on the changing role of the CIO. An IBM survey in 2005 found that of CEOs 80% thought IT had to be aligned to be successful but only 45% thought this was something they did well. More recent surveys showed CIOs feeling that this was [...]

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Blogging Live from IMPACT – Opening Keynotes Part I

April 7, 2008

I am attending the IBM IMPACT show today and tomorrow and will try and blog live from the show. So far the wireless isn’t working in the keynote location (I am on my broadband wireless modem, thank you Verizon) and the room has no tables and no power for the HUGE number of laptop users [...]

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CIOs – use EDM to deliver what your business managers want

March 11, 2008

Frank Gens of IDC posted this short item on what Line of Business managers want from their CIOs and it had a nice little graph showing the key things that the business wants from IT. Of the 10 items, several seem to me to show the need for Enterprise Decision Management or EDM:

Speed up project [...]

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EDM should be a top priority for CIOs in 2008

January 9, 2008

Allan Alter over at CIO Insight had this article on CIOs Rank Their Top Priorities for 2008. Across all categories of company it was interesting that the top items were:

Delivering better service to customers
Improving business processes
Contributing to the creation of new business strategies
Cutting costs

I don’t know about you but I can see how EDM can [...]

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