Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
A Dangerous Bias: action over thinking – UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Quote: So, perhaps if our agile and iterative processes do not seem to be leading us on a path to success, maybe we just dove into the deep end without spending quite enough effort to understand how our stakeholders will be defining success [...]
The Three Elements of Successful Data Visualizations – Jim Stikeleather – Harvard Business Review Quote: Storytelling helps the viewer gain insight from the data. Information visualization is a process that transforms data and knowledge into a form that relies on the human visual system to perceive its embedded information. The goal is to enable the [...]
I’ve written about the topic “Bring your own Device” (BYOD) in the past but I never really touched on the issue of what BYOD does for IT complexity. Does having a BYOD policy that allows your employees to bring their own devices increase the workload and complexity for the IT staff? My gut reaction to [...]
Technology is king, so why are so many IT departments playing backseat roles? — Tech News and Analysis Quote: As employees feel increasingly entitled to take tech into their own hands via BYOD, the cloud and SaaS, IT is finding itself sidelined. The answer is for IT to redefine itself. Welcome to IT as a [...]
“Steering your car via the gas tank”, when cost trumps strategy Quote: …the budget is not a strategy, it is not a means of leadership, and it is simply an allocation of resources that should support rather than set the direction of where we need to go. Data science is not enough. We need data [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote about Big Data and Small Business. From that post, I wrote: As its defined, big data might be too big for small business, but the concepts behind big data – identifying, collecting, analyzing and using data – aren’t too big. Anyone can use do four steps regardless of business size and [...]
Can evil data scientists fool us all with the world’s best spam? — Tech News and Analysis Quote: Just when you thought spam was under control, a new breed of spammers is taking up new methods to infiltrate our inboxes, search results and social media feeds. Data science could make them very effective. 3 Trends [...]
Managing Expectations is an Art — Gene De Libero – Digital Marketing Strategist and Technologist Quote: I learned early in my career that setting and managing expectations [especially my own] was a skill I’d have to master if I wanted to succeed. It never mattered who the audience was – parents, the boss, a business [...]
“We want to test bold, new ideas that always work.” – Chief Marketing Technologist Quote: Failure is an inherent part of real experimentation. “We have an idea. Let’s try it. Works? Great. Doesn’t work? Good to know, let’s try something different.” You do your best to construct your hypotheses with reason and logic, but also [...]
This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. Yes Shadow IT again. But…rather than rehash the things I’ve talked about before, I wanted to take some time to walk through a few issues that aren’t always discussed when we talk about Shadow IT. The first is Data Disconnect, which I’ll talk about here. The 2nd is…well…you’ll [...]
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