Five Reasons Why Analytics ROI is Elusive

Analytics isn't necessarily about what the data is; it is about what the data means. Big Data can yield big opportunities, but analytics ROI is elusive because the majority of practitioners believe that analytics starts with data and software. Precise ROI calculations are much more art than science. Here are some causes why advanced analytics ROIs are elusive.  Lack of well-set guidelines: If practitioners and leadership don't set the right...

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How to Build a Creative Workplace and Workforce?

CREATIVITY has to become the philosophy, and part of DNA in an organization.  Today’s digital workforce is multigenerational, multicultural and multitasking; today’s digital workplace is always on, always connected, you can work anytime and anywhere, with more seamlessly cross-functional collaboration and cross-geographic interaction. But more strategically, how to build a creative working environment to inspire innovation and encourage creative...

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Who are Highly Effective Digital CIOs: CIO Leadership From Average to Great

From average to great is a leadership journey, it takes confidence, vision, passion, problem-solving skills, and teamwork to match up.  Modern CIOs play different roles and have multiple personas. There is a distinct difference between a great CIO and an average CIO in terms of identifying and implementing competitive advantages and being a great leader. What are those major traits and how to leapfrog IT leadership from average to great?...

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Insight of PS vs. SD

You have to think in terms of both 'tangible' and 'intangible' for either software development or problem-solving. The ultimate goal of software development is business problem-solving, there is much more that needs to be done to frame the business issue and then provide methods that can be used for problem-solving. Before determining if you need a solution, you should decide if there is a problem. In software, the focus should be on understanding...

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Is Management and Control of Technology Shifting Away from IT

IT needs to strike the right balance between being an enabler and a controller.  Some say that CIOs are losing ground due to the proliferation of Shadow IT, Consumerization of enterprise technology, Omnipresence of social platforms., etc. Is it true that the management and control of technology are shifting away from IT, and what is the effective way to run IT and business as a whole at the era of Cloud?  IT needs to assume the...

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Is IT Part of KM or KM Part of IT

The greatest advancements in the KM  are "all" tied to advancements in technologies and how they're used in the last half century.  Digital means the abundance of information, information can be refined into the knowledge which is one of the most valuable, but intangible assets in business today. Thus, Information Management and Knowledge Management are two important management disciplines. However, the two terms are interchanged...

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Startup or Bellwether: Who are the Better innovators?

 The corporation is more resourceful, and startup is more creative. Innovation is the light every business is pursuing, however, for most companies, innovation is more as serendipity, rather than a systematic business capability which can be built upon; in particular, startup business or industry bellwether, who are the better innovators? Corporation is more resourceful, and startup is more ‘creative’: Corporate tends to be stronger...

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A ‘Mindful’ Board

A mindful Board is democratic, diversified, cogitative, stimulating, and proactive. Corporate Boards are there to oversee business strategy, to ensure reasonable governance, and hold the senior executive team accountable for execution. Modern Board as high-level governance body plays the crucial role in business advising, monitoring, and setting key tones in corporate culture as well, these are all significant responsibilities, thus, mindset,...

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Digital Synchronization

When one startling changes, information moves across the flock very quickly and with nearly no degradation. In essence, that's the beauty of synchronization. Nature is full of beauty and mystery; murmuration is such a stunning natural phenomenon to take your breath away—sometimes from hundreds to tens of thousands of birds gather in flocks called murmurations. It exhibits strong spatial coherence and amazing synchronization, which seem to occur...

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What Percentage of Strategic Plans Have you Seen that Contain a Section on Culture and Leadership?

An effective strategic plan needs to include both 'hard' choices for taking actions and 'soft' components for moving hearts and minds Management in many organizations spend significant portion of time to craft strategic plan, however, many of such plans are more as a shelf-ware than shareware; more like oxymoron than value-added, how to improve both content and context of such planning, shall it address the ‘soft’ side of business CSFs such as leadership...

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