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Learning by Doing with Labs

August 9, 2011

Print PDF Every summer, I spend a week camping with my kids’ Boy Scout troop. This year, we had the opportunity to camp, hike and fish in the Colorado Rockies near Pike’s Peak. A by-product of a week away from constant email, phone calls and meetings is time to think. A few summers ago, one of these thoughts was how to apply first aid lessons to better project management. This summer’s camp was alongside the ...

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Reinvent Your Training Methods

July 14, 2011

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Print PDF I was recently at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (where PwC is a Patron) for their summer briefings. Andy McAfee, is one of the regular guests and told some stories contrasting the degree of difficulty in finding the information we want in our own organizations with that of searching the public internet – night and day for most. The contrast reminded me of a discussion I had with an insurance CIO ...

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What’s the CIOs Role in Compliance?

July 7, 2011

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Print PDF How often do the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO) have common cause to work together? More often than you might think. The IT department and the technology resources and skills they contain are among those most in demand by corporate compliance officers when taking on the often enterprise-wide projects that help keep their organization’s out of legal or regulatory hot water, so says a recent survey on corporate compliance ...

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Mobile Enterprise – Beyond the Fundamentals

June 14, 2011

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Print PDF Guest post by Dan Eckert In my last post about going mobile in the enterprise I talked about some fundamentals for going mobile in your business. In brief, I said there were three things you should know about mobile in the enterprise as you move forward: Things are moving so fast that choosing a software platform is more critical than which hardware you should buy. Mobile innovation is no longer being driven by ...

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Demystifying Business Innovation

June 9, 2011

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Print PDF Guest post by John Sviokla Why innovate? Because the growth of your business ― and, ultimately, its success and sustainability ― demands it. In the past two decades over a billion new customers have entered the market economy, mostly in the parts of the world we now refer to as “emerging markets”. In the eyes of today’s CEO ― regardless of his or her home market ― that’s where the action is: it’s ...

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Selecting Public Cloud Services – Focus on What’s Different

June 1, 2011

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Print PDF I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion last week with a few of my PwC colleagues, Cara Beston and Greg Dupier, during which we talked about both private clouds and also what it takes for businesses to offer public cloud services. What made this discussion unique for me was that the audience was largely made up of U.S. government contractors, so they were particularly focused on the federal direction and ...

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3 Keys for the Mobile Enterprise

May 9, 2011

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Print PDF Guest post by Dan Eckert An agile organization is a mobile organization. And, given today’s technologies, there’s no reason why your company shouldn’t be both. Today’s alignment of smart handhelds, information clouds, and social networking innovation can finally take the power of IT to the edge of your enterprise where it belongs. Making the most of this alignment is where success is achieved or lost. So what does technology leadership need to know ...

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The Era of Security Breaches

May 2, 2011

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Print PDF Guest post by Gary Loveland and Nalneesh Gaur It seems like today’s organized data criminals have re-doubled their efforts to get their hands onto your customer’s data, and into their wallets. A full 85% of all data-related security breaches today are masterminded by organized crime, according to a 2010 Verizon Data Breach research report. These criminals are using anything and everything to spy out opportunity and penetrate defenses: from viruses and malware and ...

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3 CTO Role Models

April 11, 2011

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Print PDF Given the game-changing possibilities of information technology and the ever-increasing complexity of the corporate IT platform, it is time to consider elevating enterprise leadership roles along-side the CIO. The first place for us to start is with the Chief Technology Officer. While the CIO role and scope of responsibility is more understood, the CTO and her role is much less clear. While I don’t have a formula that will work in every case, ...

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Using Data Analysis to Predict the Future

April 6, 2011

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Print PDF Guest post by Zach Sachen Your ability to predict the future is relative to the knowledge you have and what you do with it when compared to your competitors. If competitors do not have access to the same knowledge at the same time as you, to them you are essentially predicting the future. For example, if you know before your competitors that a consumer trend is emerging, and you act on it, you ...

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