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Analytics simplify data to amplify its value

September 2, 2008

Analytics simplify data to amplify its value
This was a phrase I remember from my friends in the Fair Isaac R&D team. I have no idea if this is original or a well-known analytic quote but I like it. Think about it, most business users would say they want usable, actionable information not just data so [...]

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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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Live from Forrester – Don’t Wait to Innovate

May 20, 2008

Bobby Cameron came up next and begun by highlighting how little IT sometimes matters to business innovation – even innovative companies and CEOs don’t think of their IT in this way. So why is this a problem? Executives say one thing but do another:

Innovation is a “priority” but not on the executive team’s agenda.
CEOs talk [...]

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Better decision-making can boost your top line

October 18, 2007

I saw this post by Keith Harrison-Broninski Some Processes Cost Money – Others Processes Make Money, in which he discusses the fact that companies have already squeezed lots of costs out of their systems and processes. He takes away from this the valid conclusion that not all processes are therefore good targets for high ROI [...]

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Book Review – The only sustainable edge

November 30, 2006

The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization
In this book John and John discuss how recent changes in the world will force, indeed are forcing, companies to change how they think about offshoring and outsourcing, innovation and even their core business processes. They describe how a combination of “Converging [...]

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