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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – Carolina Wren in the Backyard

A Carolina Wren in the backyard, captured through a glass door with a Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L. Busy background but the best of the bunch.

Apr 18, 2014 · 1 min read
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Big Data

The Value of Data

I’m always on the look-out for stories of companies using data and analytics to manage their business. In a recent case study, IBM presented the story of

Apr 17, 2014 · 2 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for April 13 2014

Leading IT Through Trust and Ownership Quote: I need my entire IT staff to think “outside / in” by learning about and caring about the lives of our

Apr 13, 2014 · 2 min read
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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – Red-Headed House Finch

Captured this red-headed house finch in our backyard last week. Captured through a glass door with a Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L.

Apr 11, 2014 · 1 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for April 6 2014

16 Leadership Lessons from a Four Star General Quote: Rank, authority, and even responsibility can be inherited or assigned, whether or not an individual

Apr 6, 2014 · 2 min read
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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – Backyard Goldfinch

I captured this Goldfinch in our backyard while he decided which feeder to visit. Captured with Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L handheld.

Apr 4, 2014 · 1 min read
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Uncategorized

Links for March 30 2014

Google Flu Trends' Failure Shows Good Data > Big Data - Kaiser Fung - Harvard Business Review Quote: The amount of data still tends to dominate

Mar 30, 2014 · 3 min read
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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – Chinchilla Bathing

This is a photo my wife took of our chinchilla taking a bath.  It's rare to get her in the bath box when you have a camera in-hand.

Mar 28, 2014 · 1 min read
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Featured

How do you define the CIO role?

While doing a bit of research on the role of the CIO for an article I was writing earlier this week, I ran across this definition of Chief Information

Mar 27, 2014 · 2 min read
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Information Technology

Managing BYOD with Policies in the Midsized Firm

There’s been much discussion of the concept of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) over the last few years. While the topic has been written about by many

Mar 26, 2014 · 2 min read
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The New CIO

IT Transformation – or just remaining agile and ready for change?

We’ve been living with the “IT Transformation” phrase for quite a while. I remember hearing and reading about how IT groups were ‘transforming’ themselves

Mar 25, 2014 · 2 min read
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Big Data

Links for March 23 2014

Midwest IT Survival » Evolution of Corporate IT and the Future Impact of Cloud Quote: All in all, corporate IT is in constant evolution. The rate of

Mar 23, 2014 · 2 min read
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Data

Don't use your data this way

Last week, I wrote a post titled Big Data Starts with Data Management. In that post, I wrote: Starting with data management will help mitigate these risks

Mar 18, 2014 · 3 min read
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Sunday Links

Links for March 16 2014

6 IT Strategies to Stay Ahead of Data Center Trends - CIO.com Quote: Automation, virtualization, cloud computing -- these technology trends are

Mar 16, 2014 · 3 min read
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Big Data

Big Data Starts with Data Management

Over on the Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality blog, Jim Harris recently wrote:  While organizations of all sizes are rightfully excited about the business

Mar 11, 2014 · 2 min read

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