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Data is now essential for businesses as a critical asset to support a company’s strategy, growth, and survival. Data knowledge’s extensive use and re-use can deliver internal and external business performance improvement (Business Processes), provide …
Data is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise. It empowers businesses to drive strategy and insights when correctly managed and used. However, growing data streams and today’s data management complexity mean that many organizations still stru…
Cutter Fellow Noah Barsky outlines 10 unconventional rules for helping us identify critical risks. He argues that we should not relegate risk management to our compliance or legal departments. On the contrary, we need to transform the mindset that says…
The best leaders recognize that they don’t have all the answers. They acknowledge the limits of their expertise and understand the need to marshal the collective intellect of their teams. As Peter Drucker once said, “The most common source of mistakes …
Lori Silverman says we need to rethink our focus on data analytics. She points out that many enterprises are not achieving the ROI that they would like from their data science and analytics efforts. Silverman argues that we need to think more broadly a…
Cutter Expert Paul Clermont helps us understand how and why capable, experienced people often make poor choices. He describes familiar pathologies like confirmation bias, groupthink, and the tendency to double down on failing courses of action in which…
Dave Martin, Tony Ponton, and Kim Ballestrin explain that humans crave certainty, and we desperately want to be right the first time. They argue that trying to be “right” can lead us astray in highly complex environments. Thus, we must become comfortab…
Get an inside look at Dell’s sustainability strategy from Page Motes, Dell Technologies Head of Corporate Sustainability.
Bizzdesign’s approach to Capability Governance is similar to BIZBOK’s but more pragmatic. Most importantly, it takes into account that many business architecture initiatives start from the IT organization as well as from a lower level of maturity. We often see that the core of a capability mapping team comes from some architecture department or team…
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…
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…