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3 Practices to turn Big Data aspirations into business value – Active Information

July 13, 2012 By brenda michelson

This week on Active Information, I highlighted research published in MIT Sloan on Finding Value in the Information Explosion. Jeanne Ross is a co-author, so you know it’s good stuff.

The good news is that IT organizations are stepping up to manage the data explosion.  The bad news is that these vast stockpiles of data aren’t generating a business return.

To turn Big Data aspirations into realized value, the research proposes three essential practices that BUSINESS leaders must embrace.

Read about these practices: Turn Big Data aspirations into business value – Input Output.

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Link Collection — July 8, 2012

July 8, 2012 By brenda michelson

  • Declare Your Radicalness – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review

    Thought provoking, albeit a bit long: “In other words, we’re incrementalists. We may honor the radical — but we surround ourselves with the banal, trivial, humdrum, and tedious”

    “…but I believe that we, each and every one of us, is capable of more than incrementally, cautiously, timidly, option-3-in-slide-14-in-the-powerpoint-deck not so bad. I think we’re capable of radically, explosively, dangerously, laughably, hopelessly, impossibly better.”

    tags: incrementalism radicalness hbr

  • Meet The League Of Extraordinary Women: 60 Influencers Who Are Changing The World | Fast Company

    Truly inspiring and very well done: “The previously untold story of how an unprecedented network of high-achieving women from the world’s largest companies, innovative startups, philanthropic organizations, government, and the arts combined forces to change the lives of girls and women everywhere.”

    tags: fastcompany theleague ellen-mcgirt

  • Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? – YouTube

    “Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.” — TED Talk, 2006

    tags: creativity TED

  • 1024 Words: The Devops Butterfly Effect

    Nice infographic and bite-sized post by the always excellent, Lori MacVittie of F5:

    “Chaos theory claims a butterfly flapping its wings in one area of the world can result in a hurricane elsewhere. The impact of devops – or the lack thereof – may not be as devastating, but it does have an impact in terms of time, money and risk.”

    tags: devops

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Link Collection — July 1, 2012

July 1, 2012 By brenda michelson

  • Let Your Ideas Go – Nilofer Merchant – Harvard Business Review

    “Now, I wasn’t always a believer in openness. I once ran right over other people, because I wanted to be “right” more than I wanted to build an idea that became real in the marketplace. And I personally liked being in charge and controlling and telling other people what to do. I came up through business with the old mentality. In my 20s, I ran a 200M unit at a Fortune 500 company. I remember one particular time when I was locked in a death match with a colleague over whose idea would win. I kept my idea in a closed fist, and fought tooth and nail to both prove it was best and I was the best. I won. The board adopted my plan.

    And yet ultimately I lost. I was fired a month later because the team didn’t trust me. I also lost my best friend with whom I had once run a marathon. It was a spectacular failure that helped me move past the industrial era thinking I was trained in.

    I started to understand, for any idea to win, I had to let them go, I had to let other people in. After now another 12 years of working through different approaches, I’ve come to a new understanding. It is this: the future is not created; the future is co-created. Whenever we want something bigger, and better, and faster, we need to be able to let go of a tight grip and open up.

    Openness is powerful, even catalytic…”

    tags: ideas openness

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