Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
In a world where almost everything is being transformed into a digital data point—and the volume, velocity and variety (3Vs) of data expand at a seemingly exponential rate—it’s apparent that the ability to govern big data increasingly separates winners and losers. A newly released study conducted by Pentaho, a Hitachi Services Company, in association with…
Most of the tech press coverage of COBIT 5 so far amounts to little more than an announcement of its launch and a rehash of the press release. Such is one of the hallmarks of our age. But it isn’t all that helpful when you’re running an IT department at full speed half staffed. So…
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…
In a recent study on information governance, the Economist Intelligence Unit found that the single biggest worldwide challenge to successful adoption of information governance (IG) is the difficulty of identifying its benefits and costs. In other words, the difficulty of understanding and making the case for IG. Since I will be writing a series of…
According to analyst firm Gartner, data governance is the way to mitigate ediscovery problems. In fact, they predict that companies without data governance strategy and technology in place will spend one third more on ediscovery than their peers (Cooperation is Key for Managing Ediscovery, March 2010). Gartner rightly identifies data volume and IT environmental complexity…
How to Govern the Ever-Extending Enterprise, Part II Technology is breaking down traditional management practices and paving the way towards the horizontal enterprise, writes CIOUpdate columnist Faisal Hoque of BTM Corp. Here’s how to cope. In Part I of this two-part series I talked about the concept of the “extended enterprise” being nothing new but…
The concept of the “extended enterprise” is hardly new. Even in the early years of the 20th Century when big corporations were gathering all the means of production under their corporate roofs to exercise control, the management theorists were advancing such ideas as the “organization as community” and the “environmental complex” as a management problem….
Business leaders use the term “agility” to describe their business plans and strategic initiatives, but it’s often little more than just a vision. Agility is something that requires planning and a full incorporation in business and management processes. It’s a philosophy and action. And, most of all, it requires courage and commitment. But what does…
Corporate litigation is often inevitable but preparation for that inevitability is controllable. So why so often during corporate litigation have I attended a meeting where legal and IT teams are introducing themselves across the table? The truth is that successful companies have embraced the brotherly bond that IT and legal departments share in this age…
Managing the details of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) pose many logistical and technological issues that require the insight of the CIO. Due diligence demands interested investors be able to examine all pertinent documents before they decide whether to acquire or merge with a company. Traditionally, these interested parties would go to a physical space to…