CIOs Need to be the Guiding Light

Looking back one can think of three inflection points that intertwined technology and business: the advent of mainframes in the 1970s; the PC revolution followed by the introduction of powerful servers; the Y2K threat, which led to rethinking of IT infrastructure and introduction of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems followed by open source and the outsourcing/off-shoring revolution of the 21st century. 

CRGroup's Top Ten Dynamics GP Tips & Tricks of 2013

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Do you Really Need to Embrace Analytics?

If you have not witnessed the deluge of big data and business analytics media coverage to date, then welcome back from the coma you were apparently in for the last couple of years. For the rest of you, perhaps you have the same nagging question that I have: Are big data and business analytics such a big deal that if our organization is late to the party in deploying them, we will never catch up to our competitors?

I go back and forth on wondering if applying analytics now is an urgent imperative for an organization to survive or if it is a “nice to have” relative to more critical “must have” capabilities that an organization should ideally possess.