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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 9/30/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Shawn Hunter The Wisdom of Titans: Secrets of Success from Entrepreneurs Who Rose to the Top William Ferguson The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership […].

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Complimentary Resource – Big Data is Talking. Are You Listening?

Strategy Driven

This interactive white paper from CIO Magazine and EMC lays out the benefits of big data and predictive analytics, provides tips on how to get started, and shares the remarkable results that businesses have achieved by marrying these two powerhouses. And a quick survey provides benchmarking between CIO peers. Are You Listening?

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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year). One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,

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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. You just finished reading Doing Business in a Big Data World ! Consider leaving a comment!

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7 Vastly Overrated Business Books

First Friday Book Synopsis

To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Most business books are awful, some are mediocre and a (very) few are [.]. Here is an article written by Geoffrey James for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network.

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Apple’s Success Secret: It Makes Mistakes All the Time

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To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * In part of the long piece that Fortune did on Apple (AAPL) — the [.]. Here is an article written by Erik Sherman for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network.

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Business lessons to be learned from a video game, Angry Birds

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To check out all the Institute’s resources and sign up for a free online newsletter, please click here. * * * Peter Drucker liked to call himself a “social ecologist,” so perhaps he’d have been intrigued [.].

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