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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 — ARLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Figure 1 -- The automation job destruction/creation cycle.
July 28, 2015 — Arlington, Massachusetts
Figure 1 -- What is your IT organization’s role in business innovation?
The IT community has a huge stake in minimizing the probability and severity of any backlash. One major asset is that their executives are, on the whole, more publicly respected than their counterparts in most other industries. They have bully pulpits that they can and should use to get in front of both technical and broader sociopolitical issues likely to bring on or intensify backlash.
Conventional wisdom holds that alignment and autonomy are contradictory. This is a false dichotomy. Alignment actually enables autonomy by providing each and every project team with its goals, measures, and boundaries. The project team is strongly encouraged to operate independently within its own context. As long as a project teams has a well-specified set of clearly derived measures, it can do what it needs to do to achieve its measures without the interference of external management.
The data lake is an evolutionary development of the increasing need to process unstructured data and huge stores of structured and semistructured feeds from machine processes and automation. It needs to be integrated with existing database and data warehousing solutions, whose processing and output is essential to analytics tasks. At the same time, the data lake needs to conform to the structural and security requirements of the firm.
January 13, 2015 — Arlington, Massachusetts
Cost transparency via budget structure and IT value (medium to large organizations).
January 13, 2015 —Arlington, Massachusetts
Graph 1 -- Are IT budgets increasing or decreasing?
February 24, 2015 — Arlington, Massachusetts
Figure 1 -- Which obstacles or issues most negatively affect your organization's mobility adoption/implementation efforts?