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Why Your Management Information Should Be Curated In Real-Time

N2Growth Blog

Here are several tips to consider as you establish this kind of preferred work environment: 1. The access to the management information created by these core systems should be enabled through some combination of data warehousing and data analytics systems (the backbone of any solid “Big Data” technology environment.

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Open Source Software Hits a Strategic Tipping Point

Harvard Business Review

Overall, we found that more than half of our survey respondents have adopted OSS solutions as part of their IT strategy. She focuses on application development, open-source technology, and project and portfolio management. To find out, we surveyed 547 IT leaders in 11 countries. Laurie Wurster is a research director at Gartner.

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Three Ways CIOs Can Connect with the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Define Your Strategy. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical.

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