Like many institutions of higher learning, Indiana University (IU) has been making use of business intelligence (BI) for years. But even with a wealth of data at its disposal, the university’s business units struggled to transform that data into insights that could drive meaningful decisions. It’s multi-year Decision Support Initiative (DSI) changed all that. “We…
The tech industry isn’t a bunch of scrappy underdogs anymore. In the wake of numerous data lapses and incidents of personal data being monetized in ways users never expected, consumer trust is dropping—according to a recent survey from Selligent, 75 percent of consumers are worried about brands tracking their browsing behavior. And it’s not just…
The importance of teams Image by Getty Images If science fiction is to be believed, humans in the future have learned to build highly effective teams. You can’t go into outer space – and survive – if your team is dysfunctional. The crews of the Enterprise(every iteration) on Star Trek, the Rocinante in the The Expanse,…
Back in 2017, I wrote about HackerRank’s research on which countries were home to the most skilled women developers. HackerRank doesn’t gather data on their approximately 2 million users’ sex or gender, so they had to do some guesswork based on users’ first names; they also excluded unisex names like Taylor or Riley, which could…
In this series, I talk about three insights that will help you unleash the potential of your workforce. Whereas the first piece was about what it is that makes employees satisfied and how IT can help in that perspective, this second and third insights are about how to enable the new work environment employees are…
With a refresh of its cloud analytics tools, SAP hopes to bring users new insights into their data more quickly and take some of the workload off the IT department. It’s not that the previous analytics tools were all that slow; it’s just that to get the most out of some of their features, you…
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) — the very words cause groans among employees and leadership alike. They conjure thoughts of expansive spreadsheets and endless meetings where acronyms like KRIs and KPIs are bandied about. Quite often, GRC exercises are seen as a waste of time or the purview of the CFO and internal audit. But…
Many companies find they need to undertake IT modernization to support later digital transformation to create new competitive advantage. They recognize that IT and shared service groups must modernize so they can respond more effectively and quickly to the business needs. However, it’s a mistake to approach IT modernization with the same approach as traditional…
Corporate spinoffs pose a special kind of IT challenge. As a particular type of divestiture, a newly spun-off company has options: (1) either begin paying for IT services provided by its corporate parent, (2) start deploying its own infrastructure with a clean slate, or (3) find an alternative company to provide the services its parent…
Speed is the ability to exploit emerging business opportunities by consistently bringing differentiating digital solutions from concept to market at the pace of the customer; and, it has become the new scale in the digital age as repeatedly highlighted by BCG, McKinsey, Forrester, Forbes, MIT, and others. To read this article in full, please click…