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With new mobile uses, free software, and more agility in IT development, Shadow IT and Shadow SaaS tend to grow. Even if more agility and openness can be a lever of innovation for the business lines, this uncontrolled and even unknown shadow IT escape…
Do you know what data you have to unlock within your organisation to get to the information you need? This is the question many Chief Data Officers find themselves asking their Chief Digital Officers on their first encounter. Yes, believe it or not, t…
Digitization has placed data at the heart of organizations’ initiatives, both for operational and strategic needs. As companies capture massive amounts of data and deal with big data environments, they must maximize their value, manage risk and reduce…
The goal of the Airbus business transformation has been to use Enterprise Architecture (EA) to understand the bigger picture across its organization as it develops its ‘Digital Aeroplane of the Future’.
During a presentation at the IRM Business Transf…
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With the onset and outcome of COVID-19, governments have propelled digitization projects and in doing so, faced multiple challenges. In this article, we will take a look at why despite such challenges it was necessary, how governments funded the proje…
Just as physical buildings follow carefully designed architectural blueprints, conceiving stable, safe structures and hopefully pleasing to the eye, every business needs to map out their unseen data into a ‘blueprint’ that encompasses their en…
@Jon_Ayre questions whether an organization’s being data-driven drives the right behaviours. He identifies a number of pitfalls.It’s all too easy to interpret data through a biased viewpointData is used to justify a decision that has already been madeD…
In my post on Ghetto Wifi (June 2010), I mentioned a cafe in East London that provided free coffee, free biscuits and free wifi, and charged customers for the length of time they occupied the table.A cafe has just opened in Tokyo for writers, which cha…
One of the ideas running through my work on #datastrategy is to see data as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself. As someone might once have written, Data scientists have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point however is …
#datastrategy My latest book has been published by @Leanpub This is a beta version, and I intend to add more material as well as responding to feedback from readers and making general improvements. Subscribers will always have access to the …
In September 2005, we had reason to worry about the ability of a tightly coupled world to withstand shocks. At that time this included Hurricane Katrina and SARS. More recent crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have arguably …