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Why Big Data Means a Big Year for Hadoop

You can’t have a conversation in today’s business technology world without touching on the topic of big data.

Simply put, it’s about data sets so large-in volume, velocity and variety-that they’re impossible to manage with conventional database tools. In 2011, our global output of [...]

By Jan 26, 2012

New Year’s Resolutions 2012

Last month I made some predictions for the Top 10 trends that will affect your work life in 2012. Now that the New Year’s celebrations are upon us, it’s a good time to reflect on what your Top 10 New Year’s resolutions might [...]

By Dec 15, 2011

Top Ten Tech Predictions for 2012

Top ten predictions for what will impact the IT-business landscape in 2012.

As we end a transformational year in enterprise tech, you may wonder: What next? I think these 10 trends will reshape business and the CIO role:

10. Data becomes liquid. It will flow [...]

By Nov 30, 2011

Execs from NASDAQ, HP Show Operations Some Love

Stories from CIO events that suggest the best ideas thrive when operations run smoothly.

One of the great joys I have in serving the CIO community is witnessing the openness and transparency you have with each other—especially when given the chance to sit down [...]

By Oct 28, 2011

Evolve to Where Your Customers Are

Media audiences continue to embrace new technologies and social media and react positively to sophisticated and targeted content. This provides media producers and marketers the opportunity to engage their target audience using the technologies that they are spending time with. The largest growth [...]

By Oct 4, 2011

Back to Events

During the most recent challenging economic times, which impacted marketing and T&E budgets, both sponsors and attendees questioned whether face-to-face events best served their need for education, networking and lead generation. This spurred event innovation with some event producers creating updated models to [...]

By Aug 25, 2011

Communication, Commerce, Consumption and Creation in the Mobile Device Ecosystem

We are an increasingly active society and we expect mobile technology to keep up and provide the information we want at the tips of our fingers.  Activities we could not have envisioned even three years ago, are common-place expectations of mobile devices today: [...]

By Jul 11, 2011

Who Is Your Customer?

That may be the most important question to ask in business today. Having a clear response to this simple-sounding but complex-to-answer question is essential to business success. It shapes your company’s mission, priorities and growth initiatives.

By Jul 6, 2011

Tech Bubble? No Way!

There has been a fair amount of dialogue recently about the potential of double dip recession http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/doublediprecession.asp and that we are experiencing another tech bubble. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-blank/the-next-bubble-dont-get-_b_877620.html

By Jun 16, 2011

The Next Big Land Grab Is Business Process

CIOs can raise their business-value quotient by taking ownership

It is amazing to me how much we talk about business process when in reality we understand very little about it.

On Amazon.com, there are more than 22,000 books dedicated to countless methodologies for mapping, [...]

By May 27, 2011