Debates amongst data experts are raging.

You hear that “data is our most important business asset”.

I thought it was people?

Maybe it depends . . .

An interesting and relevant article from Randy Bean and Allison Sagraves, asks “Is …

Debates amongst data experts are raging.

You hear that “data is our most important business asset”.

I thought it was people?

Maybe it depends . . .

An interesting and relevant article from Randy Bean and Allison Sagraves, asks “Is …

We were all taught from childhood and beyond that we need triumph over adversity and succeed through failure.  

It is a central tenet of what we learn in business.

“Fail Fast” . . .

I am sure you have, like …

We have had a deluge of requests for more information on some of the Shared Services and GBS benchmarks that Naomi Secor shared on a webcast with us a few weeks back.

Naomi, the leading light behind SSON Research & …

Two big topics collide this week as the Northern Hemisphere Spring has almost “sprung”.

• Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) may be the biggest corporate reporting requirement to hit CFOs since the heady days of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX).  

• End-to-End business process

Just when we thought things were back to some form of stability, we have rampant inflation, continued supply chain issues, raw material price volatility, rising interest rates, tightening credit, increasing ESG demands, bank “fragility” . . . .  and breathe …

So, half you will recoil at my spelling of “behaviours” – but I am in the US this week. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!

And anyway, why do we have different spellings in the same language?

I …

Randy Bean and the Wavestone team have delivered another fascinating set of insights into the organizational dynamics of “Delivering Business Value from Data and Analytics Investments”.

Coincidentally, this is the subtitle title of their latest annual data leadership survey.

Whilst …

Once again, I was woken from my reverie by a thought-provoking Harvard Business Review (HBR) article.

Entitled “How AI Is Helping Companies Redesign Processes” raises some important themes. I share the link below.

I mused as to whether …

Is it “disc” or disk”?

I digress . . .

I am sure that you, like me, get into many discussions about “policies”, “controls” and “compliance” in your organization.

These things are often seen as inalienable concepts in their own …