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Information Management

March 10, 2008

Monday, March 10, 2008 3:53 PM/EST

Vote of No Information Confidence

I'd like to suggest a new phrase for buzzword stardom: "information confidence". We need it, because there's not much of it out there. A study on enterprise content management by AIIM, an association for professionals involved in electronic records management,...

November 19, 2007

Monday, November 19, 2007 8:32 AM/EST

Forrester's 3.7% Spending Benchmark

How much are your competitors spending on IT? According to Forrester Research, the average percentage of revenues companies spend "to maintain and operate the IT organization, systems and equipment," is 3.7 percent....

November 12, 2007

Monday, November 12, 2007 9:49 AM/EST

The Spreadsheet and BI

What's the most commonly used BI tool? At 67% of the companies we surveyed in CIO Insight's recent Business Intelligence survey, it's the spreadsheet....

October 17, 2007

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:44 AM/EST

BI Indigestion?

Companies that are good at BI are good at delivering it in a way users can digest. But which way is that?...

September 27, 2007

Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:49 AM/EST

The Cost of Complexity

"Is enterprise software just too complex to deliver on its promises?" That's the excellent question posed in an article on the Web site of the MIT Sloan Management Review by consultant Cynthia Rettig. Her answer is a forceful but thoughtful...

September 19, 2007

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:37 AM/EST

The Cost Information Shortage

It's hard to manage IT costs effectively if your company doesn't have the information it needs. But getting that information is a huge job - total cost of ownership has a lot of moving parts, and estimating future costs is...

August 6, 2007

Monday, August 06, 2007 12:16 PM/EST

Don't Panic over Rogue IT

Just spotted one of those panic-inducing IT stories that pop up in the business section.... The Boston Globe is reporting that half of employees feel "more empowered than IT to control their personal IT environment," according to a new Yankee...

June 15, 2007

Friday, June 15, 2007 2:17 PM/EST

Peter Fader and the Walking Dead

So what do you think of our interview with Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader on "What Data Mining Can and Cannot Do"? I've been talking with this Wharton B-school professor for years about the use and misuse of customer data...

March 6, 2007

Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:17 AM/EST

161 Billion Gigabytes

How much data did the world generate in 2006? IDC has come up with an estimate -- 161 billion gigabytes (aka 161 exabytes). The figure includes copies, not just the 40 exabytes of original data that IDC estimates was generated....



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