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Welcome to 24 x 7 x 365 connectedness and the challenges that come with an always-on world. That world is generating data, loads of data. And the more we’re ‘on’, the more data, and the more reason to be ‘on’. It’s a never ending cycle of chasing our data tail. Evolving technology and people That […]

This week a US Senator wrote to a tech firm which tracks and monitors consumers and asked them to change their practices. Euclid Analytics uses technology and data to help retailers build a consumer relationship by turning in-store behavior into insights and recommendations for improving marketing, merchandising, and operations. They do this by using the […]

In my other benchmarking posts I’ve explained that you’ll never get to a level of precision where you will truly have an exact comparative benchmark value. It has been proven and noted that the same person asked the same question will give you different answers. But, even if it were possible, you would not be […]

This week there have been two reports released. One from OfCom (Independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries) which has reported that the UK’s mobile users are consuming more data on their phones and tablets than any other leading nation for the first time. A second from Office for National Statistics has […]

Watching Apple’s rollout of the ‘new iPad’ and Tim Cook’s talk of the “Post-PC World”, I have to wonder if even more has changed without any bold announcements. Specifically, the dependence of the enterprise on application development/support, business analysis, and many other services of the IT organization. I guess the question is, “Are we living […]

The following is a guest post by Dr. Gary Ferguson. Gary Ferguson has a strong background in starting, leading, and turning around healthcare IT organizations.  Dr. Ferguson earned his doctorate in pharmacy and pharmacology at the Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Health Network, and gained clinical experience working in a trauma center. […]

“It’s all about the data” was a popular phrase when I came up through the IT ranks. That phrase, though, was used to justify having proprietary (copyrighted by vendors) data storage systems that captured information on individual computers, in databases, and as things grew, in data warehouses. Communication was point-to-point based on connections between those […]

What a privilege to spend three days in Utah with Intermountain Healthcare at their Mindshare 2012 Conference. I was invited by the CFO Bert Zimmerli and CIO Marc Probst when we met last week at HIMSS 2012 in Las Vegas. I was very interested, but what truly closed the deal was attending a session with […]