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Doing Business in a Big Data World

Strategy Driven

All of this means that CIOs and centralized IT department staff no longer 'own' company data the way they did in the past; giving rise to new concerns about data integrity and security in a more distributed and anarchic company structure.

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How to Integrate Data and Analytics into Every Part of Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Increase market share? A robust, successful D&A function encompasses more than a stack of technologies, or a few people isolated on one floor of the building.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. IT management Information & technology Operations' IT went from being a potential source of competitive advantage to being a necessity for competitive parity.