The Role of IT in Data Governance
Information technology (IT) plays a vital role in data governance by implementing and maintaining strategies to manage, protect, and responsibly…
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IT Industry Has No Building Code
According to a Gartner report, 6.7 trillion dollars are spent annually on enterprise software. Yet, as much as we spend…
Should We Consider Banishing CIOs?
“First thing we do, let’s banish all of the CIOs.” Too harsh? Shakespeare was much harder on lawyers. But the…
Have We Forgotten the Purpose of Technology in Business?
Fundamentally, the purpose of technology in business is to manage the treasure trove of data captured within sophisticated technological systems.…
Partly Cloudy with a Scattered IT Environment
How many times, when you were a kid, did a thunderstorm cause an immediate mix of emotions: the fear of…
Becoming a Data-Driven Company
Data-driven companies are more profitable than their competitors and outperform them with regards to the acquiring and retaining of customers…
Challenges Facing CIOs and IT Leaders
There are a lot of big changes on the horizon in the world of technology. It seems like in the…
Questions Metadata Can Answer
The world of information technology has “grown up” dramatically in the last twenty-five years – the term of my comparably…
Why Agile is Like Football: Chickens and Pigs
Surely you’ve heard of the Agile methodology, but may not have been able to truly find a way to implement…
The Agile Enterprise Coach
When your organization chooses to transition into more agile and leaner ways of working, you quickly discover that this effort…