Seeing is Believing: From Big Data to Big Picture

Seeing is believing, one picture is worth a thousand words, all being said, Big Data need be painted into Big Picture, to capture big insight.In order to create an effective visualization, business need to understand the meaning of data, after taking 5W+1H navigation, and using five senses to make sense of data, now, are you ready to move Big Data to the next level, from science to art, from common sense to unconventional wisdom, from black &...

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Enterprise Weather Forecast: From Social Wind to Social Rain

Just like this Summer, people pray for rain worldwide, same as at many organizations, culture is a bit drought, and morale is a little low, after getting enough social technology insight, they look forward to have some social wind blow up, and social rain is coming soon:  1. From Social Organization to Social Economy  Social Computing grows with speed and scale, a just-published McKinsey study, "The social economy: Unlocking...

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Five Principles in Enterprise Principles

Principles are general rules and guidelines, intended to be enduring and seldom amended.Principles are general rules and guidelines, intended to be enduring and seldom amended, that inform and support the way in which an organization sets about fulfilling its mission. The style of the principle should be short and recognizable. Its definition describes "what" the principle means in the language understood by stakeholders. The motivation describes...

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15 Classic EA Elevator Pitches in 15 Words

1.   EA is to deliver business vision- "You can't change what you can’t see" 2. EA influences the HOW by asking the WHY. 3.  EA helps to optimize all aspects of the enterprise to increase profitability. 4.     EA increases company profitably by better optimizing resources 5.     EA works on Decision support for business capability improvement & investment decisions.  6.     EA is a continuous improvement exercise that “promises” to bring some value - eventually 7.     EA communicates the CEO's vision...

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A Tale of Two Processes

BPM becomes more critical than ever in most of organizations today, some call it as technology’s third wave, some may think it takes fifth discipline, because BPM underpins business’s capability, and capability will decide business’s strategy and affect business execution. There are also different process terms coined out: lean process, or intelligent process, here, we brainstorm a tale of two processes:  robust process and dark process. 1....

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Middle Seat Pondering: Aviation’s Three Progresses & Three Dilemmas

The truth of the matter, air travel is the most efficient, safest and most affordable that it's ever been, to gain customers heart & pocket.Airline may not be the industry with most of news, surely it’s an industry full of paradox: there are both excitement and frustration; regulation & chaos; the higher operational cost & razor thin profit, the golden old days & lost decade; the higher into the sky and lower as underdog, both as...

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Five Senses to Make Sense of Big Data

Big Data will sharpen business’s sense and sensitivity; and the five senses can also help make sense of Big Data. Big Data opens up a new chapter for predictive analytics, however, Big Data is so new, a little bit messy, and the tools are also at developing stage to present the complete picture customers need. There seems to be some uncertainty about the value proposition, the ROI of big data, and about the tools that would let people take...

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Seven Cultural Habits to Harness Effective Business Innovation

“We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.”  ― Stephen R. CoveyFrom an innovation report released by Booz earlier this year, culture is key to innovation, as they surveyed almost 600 innovation leaders in companies around the world, large and small, in every major industry sector, Culture matters, enormously, Studies have shown again...

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Reusability is Both Art & Science

We should not be talking about the reusability of masks or other devices until we know whether they actually work to begin with.    ~ Jeffrey Levi Reuse is good, however, the dogmatic insistence on reuse at all costs has cost far more than people realize. To avoid misuse of reuse, one needs look at the issue with the full depth it deserves. 1.    Reuse Takes Strategic Thinking Re-use is to balance...

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Ten Excepts From Business Architecture Brainstorming

BA's Purpose: As an effective communication & governance tool to blueprint the future of business. Enterprise architecture related to corporate business, and the documents and diagrams that describe the architectural structure of the business. People who build business architecture are known as Business Architects. Business architecture bridges between the enterprise business model and enterprise strategy...

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Three DIYs at Future of Enterprise

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Contemporary business becomes more complex than ever, due to the velocity and variety of changes and interdependent business eco-system, there's often a gap between what leadership says it wants and the types of behaviors that their management processes actually encourage. Therefore,  DIY –“Do It Yourself” culture...

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