Paul Blogs on BI

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

I have a had a lot of conversations about data strategy this year. With both the rise in organizations looking to move their data to the cloud and the increasing awareness of the power of BI and generative AI, data strategy has become a top priority. Yet, all these items are within the realm of a Data Strategy so where do you start?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2023

For those companies operating on a calendar year, the end of summer signals the start of annual planning and the mad dash to prepare their IT strategies. Your answers will lay the foundation for your strategy and highlight where your story needs work if you want to avoid fire drills in the eleventh hour. IT Strategy

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bridgei2i

JUNE 23, 2021

5 Reasons To Hire An AI Consulting Company For Your AI Journey. AI adoption in the business landscape is increasing exponentially. Organizations are now acknowledging AI’s growing momentum and deploying it into their business platforms to improve the way they operate, and their ability to provide a better customer experience.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

The ripple effect of COVID-19 has really shone a spotlight on how much work still needs to be done when it comes to DEI, says Suraya Hamdulay, based in Johannesburg as VP for strategy and engagement at 2U, a US educational technology company. But times are changing.

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FineReport

JULY 26, 2021

When implemented effectively, a successful BI strategy will reach every corner of the organization, having a positive impact and enabling people to make the right decisions quickly. What is business intelligence strategy? At the same time, enterprises can use the BI strategy to gradually reach various business objectives.

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FineReport

JULY 26, 2021

When implemented effectively, a successful BI strategy will reach every corner of the organization, having a positive impact and enabling people to make the right decisions quickly. What is business intelligence strategy? At the same time, enterprises can use the BI strategy to gradually reach various business objectives.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 14, 2024

However, while embracing hybrid cloud might be intrinsic, clients continually seek to derive business value and higher return on investment (ROI) from their investments. At IBM, we provide clear guidance for navigating these challenges and achieving better business outcomes. These domains also encompass various design points.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. The company, which employs thousands of IT professionals, also works with many SaaS partners and consulting companies to deliver its offerings. This is driving a hybrid approach to cloud.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

For security architects working in a cloud environment, the focus is on designing and implementing security solutions that protect the business’ cloud-based infrastructure, data, and applications. These pros are experts in the cloud and stay on top of the latest innovations in cloud technology to better advise business leaders.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

“AI is showing up in every software package and in every technology, particularly generative AI,” says Dan Diasio, global AI consulting leader at EY, while some vendors, such as Microsoft, have made AI core to their software. Webster Bank is following a similar strategy. On-time delivery has improved substantially,” she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic. benrothke Asked about the main challenges in migrating premises-based workloads to the cloud, issues centered around planning, strategy and not moving too fast. Business Services, CIO, Cloud Management

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2023

“Connected and efficient collaboration across the enterprise is foundational to understanding the role of technology change, the use cases, and the right approaches to them,” says Andres Velasquez, technology consulting principal at EY. AI is a fundamentally different set of technologies that requires a separate strategy and capabilities.”

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 30, 2024

Manufacturing: Enable efficient and intelligent manufacturing processes to better scale production, reduce downtime and optimize strategies and operations. Get inspired A successful data center implementation can best be described as a distributed, dynamic, efficient and resilient IT nucleus.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 9, 2023

Once a vanguard business strategy, digital transformation has become a perennial objective for business survival. A good digital transformation strategy is one that delivers incremental value within a comprehensive and formal framework,” Shah explains.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 4, 2023

It’s not uncommon for CIOs, CISOs, and sometimes their direct reports to be called on to participate in board meetings or to present IT strategies and plans to their boards of directors. Make sure you work with this champion outside of the board setting to ensure alignment and adoption of your technology strategy.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Also offering cloud migration and modernization services. Hybrid and multi cloud services : Provision, monitor, and manage IaaS, PaaS, and/or Container Platforms on any cloud environment (public, private, hybrid, or multi).

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2022

The rise of business transformation initiatives has IT leaders rethinking the way they evaluate, select, and negotiate technology and IT services deals today. At the same time, CIOs are working to reshape the business of IT, driving their organizations to the cloud and to new delivery and operating models. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

Chris Bowers,CIO of Boston Consulting Group, puts it this way: “In 2024, we’re going to go after generative AI very aggressively. This vision represents a fundamental shift, positioning AI as an integral part of our business fabric rather than just an add-on. IT Leadership, IT Strategy We’re piloting, PoC-ing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Leadership has a right to ask agile teams when something will be delivered and how much it will cost, but teams have a right to push back on unrealistic expectations,” said Jon Kern, agile transformation consultant and co-author of the Agile Manifesto. The first three words are the best in the manifesto: We are discovering.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2024

I had joined as CIO, but the Americas president had asked me to step in, as we found we kept having technology consults as a larger part of the conversation. Over time, I ended up with the entire consulting organization and the tech support organization as well as IT. How do you do more training and certification?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“Provide an IT service that focuses on user experience,” advises Edgar Padua, business value architect at digital workplace provider Nexthink. This strategy places the end user — whether it’s an internal employee or an external customer — at the center of the decision-making process,” he explains. IT Leadership, IT Strategy, ITSM

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

“If you’re able to directly track the value delivered to customers, you can make very effective and focused decisions that are directly and obviously aligned with your business objectives.” IT Leadership, IT Strategy Here’s how to fix that.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

Leaders tend to focus on the vision of the future state, and project teams tend to focus on sharing their new great idea,” says Matt Mead, CTO at SPR Consulting. It’s an oft repeated adage, introduced by management guru Peter Drucker famously, that culture eats strategy for breakfast. It’s not about your vision; it’s about their why.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Salesforce certification overview Salesforce certifications are based on a role-based scheme centered on six roles: Administrator, Architect, Consultant, Designer, Developer, and Marketer. According to a study by Indeed.com , 70% of Salesforce developers in the US are satisfied with their salaries given the cost of living in their area.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

CTOs should be able to demonstrate strong expertise across a broad range of domains, including data management, cybersecurity, software architecture, operational risk or controls, infrastructure, and cloud, says Craig Stephenson, managing director of the North America Technology Officers Practice at management consulting firm Korn Ferry.

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CDW Research Hub

JUNE 10, 2021

These allow us to take a vendor-neutral stance to help clients consider, compare, test and select the right solution for their environment, requirements and desired business outcomes. Add our strengths to your security strategy. Because the right answer is not necessarily another tool, we take a consultative approach.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) is an operational strategy for managing an organization’s overall governance, enterprise risk management , and regulation compliance efforts. Governance is who does what, how, and based on what data,” says Tilcia Toledo, senior managing director with FTI Consulting. GRC is overarching.

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Juice Analytics

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Legendary analytics guru Thomas Davenport takes a more neutral stance in his Harvard Business Review article What’s your Data Strategy? The challenge for CDOs and the rest of the C-suite is to establish the appropriate trade-offs between defense and offense and to ensure the best balance in support of the company’s overall strategy.”

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Smarten

MARCH 23, 2023

Gartner states that, ‘…90% of corporate strategies will explicitly mention information as a critical enterprise asset and analytics as an essential competency.’ If your enterprise has nominated you for the role of a Citizen Data Scientist, you must have the right tools and augmented analytics features to help you fulfill your role.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Providing a compelling ROI on technology initiatives also puts CIOs in a stronger position for securing support and funds from the business for future projects. Here are a few strategies that CIOs have employed to churn out the maximum returns from their technology endeavours. Align projects with business goals.

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datapine

MARCH 31, 2022

Why Shift To A Business Intelligence Career? This all-encompassing branch of online data analysis is a particularly interesting field because its roots are firmly planted in two separate areas: business strategy and computer science. A firm grasp of business strategy and KPIs. BI consultant.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2022

IT governance should be well-defined, clearly understood, and led by principles that reflect your organization’s mission, vision, and strategy, advises Donna Bales, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group. Organizations often fail to recognize this [need] and rarely want to change governance once it’s in place.”.

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Smarten

APRIL 21, 2022

In order to encourage this adoption, businesses must embrace the concept of Citizen Data Scientists and empower their business users with the tools they need to make fact-based decisions and to improve data literacy. Improved Business Agility and Effectiveness. Alignment with Business Objectives and Metrics.

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CDW Research Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2020

This means IT teams now need to refocus their security strategy to provide the same level of security for remote access as for corporate locations and devices. Identity plays a major role in achieving a zero-trust strategy. Sign up now to experience what adaptive access can bring to your IAM strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

Moreover, they agree that those characteristics as well as several career-related strategies they also share have helped them advance their careers. Most also talk about the desire to influence strategies and decision-making as well as to have an impact. He credits several strategies for his success. Curiosity tops his list. “I

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CDW Research Hub

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Sirius), a leading national IT solutions integrator and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Consulting Partner , announces the launch of Sirius Cloud Managed Services powered by AWS Managed Services (AMS). Sirius solutions are built on proven technologies from top strategic partners, and delivered by the brightest minds in the business.

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