A company's culture is pervasive and requires leadership from 'on high' like that provided by Bezos. One of the most important role's of the CEO is to help drive and shape corporate culture. Sure, the other stuff is important as well, but without a culture that fits the business strategy, your business might just spin its wheels.
CIO's shouldn't spend their time bemoaning their current predicament. They should see it as an opportunity to reshape their job, their career and the roles that the IT group can play within the organization.
The CIO doesn't need to be sidelined. By focusing on relationships, clients and leadership CIO's can ensure they are helping to lead the organization.
Are you managing risk within your organization or are you avoiding risk? As a CIO, you should help the organization manage risk.
Slides for my defense of my dissertation titled "Analysis of Twitter Messages for Sentiment and Insight for use in Stock Market Decision Making."
I captured this sunrise on the Isle of Palms while on vacation. Captured with Canon 7D Mark II with Canon 17-40 L handheld.
It's been a bit quiet around here the past week. I've been doing some traveling over the holidays and enjoying some time with my wife and our cameras.
“An Agile Data Center is one that allows organizations to efficiently and effectively add, remove and change services at the speed of the business, not the speed of technology.”
With proper planning, the cloud can bring the ultimate mobility to an organization while still provide great data security and data access from anywhere in the world.
I captured this Titmouse on the backporch feeder last week. Captured with a Canon 7D Mark II and Canon 400mm 5.6 L handheld @ 2000 ISO.
There's different ways of being data-driven, but like Jim said...the only way to be successful at using data is to use it to make better decisions. Your organization can be data-driven and still be very unsuccessful. Find the data and data systems that work for your business and use them to make great decisions to make your company better.
Successfully implementing big data initiatives is much more than just buying some software or systems. It requires working on the Data Culture of the organization
Introducing the New Trade The Sentiment - From Theory to Product. Using twitter sentiment to trade the markets.
The cloud brings a lot of flexibility to your organization and allows you to optimize your data center to ensure it (and the cloud) can deliver what your organization needs today and tomorrow.
One of the first images with my new Canon 7D Mark II. Still getting the hang of the camera and its focus points but I'm liking it so far. Captured with
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