Tag Archives: Information Overload
Digital disruption – short fuse, big bang?
Over the last few months I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with a range of my Deloitte colleagues on a report into the “digital disruption” of business. The result brings together the impacts of digital technologies, with the explosion of … Continue reading
Just 3% smarter isn’t enough
There is a curious phenomenon in IQ tests. Every test is designed to have an average score across the population of 100 but for any given test the average result rises by 3% every decade. This is called the Flynn … Continue reading
Customers smile at the edges
One of the best ways of understanding your success is by measuring how happy your customers are. To make sense of their response you obviously need to segment customers. In this post I propose segmenting customers according to the complexity … Continue reading
The evolution of information standards
Anyone who has ever tried to negotiate a standard for data storage or communication will confirm that it is difficult to get agreement and even harder to gain adoption. Decades of debate over both analogue and digital communications standards for … Continue reading
It’s time for a new definition of big data
Two words seemingly on every technologist’s lips are “big data”. The Wikipedia definition for big data is: “In information technology, big data consists of datasets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management … Continue reading
Technology gardening
There is little that is guaranteed to soothe the stressed mind as much as a well-structured garden. It brings together order and nature in a magic combination. From a distance, the garden follows a clear plan that has probably been … Continue reading
The CIO of 2020
What will the role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) look like in 2020? The CIO role is one that really appeared during the 1990s in response to the increasing profile of Information Technology (IT) in organisations. Previously, the person in … Continue reading
Value of decommissioning legacy systems
Most organisations reward their project managers for achieving scope, within a given timeframe for a specified budget. While scope is usually measured in terms of user functions most projects usually include the decommissioning of legacy systems. Unfortunately it is the … Continue reading
Embracing the unexpected
The nineteen century belonged to the engineers. Western society had been invigorated and changed beyond recognition by the industrial revolution through its early years and by its close the railroads were synonymous with the building of wealth. The nineteen century … Continue reading
The future of social networks
When the telephone was invented the first networks were private, typically between rich individuals and their industrial interests. Pretty quickly, though, people wanted to be able to talk to each other without the need to worry about multiple networks and, … Continue reading
