How the Big Data Start-up and harnessing information as THE corporate asset is now critical to corporate competitiveness in 2013 and beyond. I have recently blogged about the Big Data Start-up and, the fact that to effectively establish...
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It’s the Data, Stupid
Thinking about the imminent publication of our white paper “Service Integration. A blueprint for regaining control of a complex IT vendor landscape” I keep returning to my originally proposed and sadly rejected title; to paraphrase...
Read moreSocial Media Monitoring – Now what? Hearing the tune through the noise.
Yesterday I attended a session with Netbase the Social Media monitoring solution that partners with SAP as part of their CRM 360 initiative. This is a very powerful piece of software that provides the ability to analyse the wealth of social media...
Read moreLeading Change... Keeping the organization focused
Over the last few weeks, I have a number of conversations with colleagues who are leading transformation efforts in various geographies, with different clients. I hear the questions, or actually statements: “they don’t want to change;...
Read moreNaming and shaming the tax cheats
Tax agencies are getting tough. They are using analytics to track down tax evaders and fraudsters and then publicly shaming them. For example, the UK’s tax and revenue agency, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), has, for the first time, exercised...
Read moreEffective Testing in Agile Environments
According to the research conducted for the World Quality Report, more and more organizations are pushed to think about updating and optimizing their testing resources to drive down costs and time-to-market. Most of the 1,500 respondents interviewed...
Read moreManaging Risk within Global Supply Chain Export Activities
With contributions from Charles Trimarco Global trade between countries is a regular occurrence and is critical to the financial stability of most organization. In order to survive, companies have expanded into global markets while setting up...
Read moreMobile Security: An Internal Enterprise Imperative
In today’s increasingly global and connected world, security threats can come from all manner of sources. The widely-reported cyber attacks on banks and TV stations in South Korea in March were generally thought to be the co-ordinated work of a...
Read moreThe next analytics frontier – Business transformation through sensor data on the fly
The next analytics frontier to break through is intelligence tied to data from machines and sensors –the combination of streaming sensor data with complex event processing and business analytics is changing the way we look at, among others,...
Read moreAsset Information Management
I recently presented at OpenText EIM Day in London. The topic was Powering Digital Transformation through Information and it received some interesting feedback. At the heart of the message was that Digital Transformation is not just about Consumer...
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