Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Know why you’re doing it. Analytics are admittedly confusing. For instance, anomaly detection is central to security and performance management, but can also be leveraged by more advanced functions in configuration and change management, or compliance audits among other areas. While you may well seek to optimize anomaly-capable analytics be wary of trying to stretch…
The common cliché “It’s like herding cats” is an expression that refers to a task that is extremely difficult to control due to chaotic factors. With the ever increasing volumes of data, executives are looking for ways to change the game and simplify information management; to herd the “information cat,” if you will. The solution…
The technical representatives in the workgroup will be responsible for: Compiling the list of reports, users and frequency of usage; Categorizing data elements and usage across reports and decision making tools; and Determining the cost of maintaining the relevant systems and developing a cost model. The technical staff may be able to gather statistics such…
Keeping up with a fast paced dynamic business is challenging if not impossible for most IT organizations. Fortunately, there are ways to improve agility and provide better support to fast moving enterprises. This article, the last in this series, discusses four key strategies for servicing the agile organization: Establish clear content lifecycle processes; Actively manage…
Develop consistent terminology An agile organization needs a taxonomy and enterprise metadata standards to make information more usable and findable. Think about what would happen if different parts of the organization spoke different languages — engineering spoke Spanish, legal spoke French and accounting spoke English. It would take a long time to get information from…
by Seth Earley of Earley & Associates In part one of this series, I explored how effective access to and, integration of, information enables businesses to receive more value from IT investments. This second installment addresses the role played by enterprise taxonomy in turning information into actionable knowledge. Information is actionable when it is understood…
Business changes faster than technology can support. That is just a fact of a CIO’s life. But there are ways to improve organizational agility and better support the demands of an ever-changing enterprise. This three part series will discuss various strategies for better meeting business needs. In this article, I focus on how to create…
Many Fortune 500 companies are recognizing enterprise data as a strategic business asset. Leading companies are using troves of operational data to optimize their processes, create intelligent products, and delight their customers. Also, increased demands for regulatory transparency are forcing companies to capture and maintain an audit trail of the information they use in their…
From Facebook feeds and YouTube videos to sales and customer data, individuals and enterprises have become constant generators of digital content. In fact, according to a 2009 blog post by Andreas Weigend in the Harvard Business Review, more data was generated in 2009 than in the entire history of mankind. This onslaught of data is…