Business vs. IT the battle rages on --Where do you stand?

More transparency in the IT value proposition to the business plus more engagement partnership is needed with the business. There’re quite a few classic business vs. IT debates last decade long: Does IT still Matter? What will happen to CIO role? 'Business vs IT': where do you stand for? Is the IT/business silo-ing a chronic problem in many organizations? Or have enterprises moved in the right direction, with a few hangers-backs? Yes, the battle...

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Data Quality: Big Issue for Big Data

As old saying, every journey comes through first step, for Big Data or any BI project, Data Quality Management is crucial for project’s success. Industry analytics researches show that intuition trumps analytics among many business professionals. What are the main reasons? Lack of confidence in the data is top one. After walking through 5W+1H Big Data Navigation, pondering to decode Big Data via Five Big Senses or use the right tool, and...

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Initiatives

Without surprise, most industry experts think PM and CM are complimentary with each other. Statistically, both project management and change management effort have 70%+ of failure rate, it also spurs many provocative debates on how to manage projects more smoothly, such as: How do you view the disciplines of change management and project management? Complimentary, Redundant, or Conflicting? Should Project Management and Change Management...

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Global Leadership

 “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”                          ― Nelson Mandela In earlier Oct, Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year-old Pakistan teenager was shot in the head while riding in a van on her way home from school, because she advocats education right for children, especially girls, the world was pray for her,  and she...

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Tough Choice for IT: Change the Name, or Reboot Mindset

Changing a name rarely changes an organization or how it is perceived by its customers. IT needs to both reboot mindset and retool management discipline. IT is being treated as a cost-to-be-controlled for years -It may be reasonable because many IT organizations are seen as IT help desk to keep light on, or simply cannot give a fair accounting of where the money is going in terms of business capability or, more importantly, directly identifying...

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CIO & CFO as Business Peers: Talk Beyond “Lean & Mean”

IT need be seen as a key contributor to corporate strategy. If modern CIO & CEO have many leadership characteristics in common, and CIO & CMO are like-minded ‘soul mates”, then CIO & CFO can be business peers with complementary viewpoints and skill sets. A joint survey by Gartner and the Financial Executives Research Foundation found that 42% of IT organizations report directly to the CFO. The same survey pointed out that finance...

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How Is IT Perceived by Business?

The data shows a disturbing gap between IT perception of itself as reasonably innovative and effective, and non-IT’s the lukewarm view. There’re discrepancies between how IT evaluates its own performance and how IT perceived by business. Here is a brief summary. Statistically, less than 50% of non-IT people consider their IT teams integral to the business, the survey finds, and 54% consider IT a support or maintenance organization and not an...

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Five Ways to Fail BI projects

A new report from market research firm Gartner says that 70 to 80 percent of all corporate business intelligent projects fail. According to the report, the reason for those failures is a combination of poor communication between IT and the business, the failure to ask the right questions and the failure to think about the real needs of the business. While an Accenture survey of managers in Fortune 500 Companies found that 59% cannot find...

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Intelligent Process vs. Process Intelligence

Well align multi-dimensional business fundamentals such as "process", "people" and "technology" and link these dimensions intelligently (via both intelligent process and process intelligence) to get optimal business performance.Intelligence Process is the process by which information is converted into intelligence and made available to users. The process intelligence can provide process some “intelligence” such as programmability, adaptability,...

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