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Take a Little Bite Out of Big Data

Easing Fears About Big Data Hype So, everyone’s talking about Big Data. (And I mean everyone.) People want it, need it, think they need it, aren’t sure if they need it and, in some cases, already have...

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Getting Inside the Mind of the CIO

The Keys to Deriving Value from IT Departments “Demonstrating value” can often be synonymous with “mission impossible” for many business units, with the obvious exception of the sales team or any team...

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Modernizing Legacy Systems

Do you have the keys to success? How do you know when it’s time to buy a new car? From a purely economic standpoint, the answer is simple: when the cost of maintaining your old vehicle becomes...

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The High Price of Selecting the Wrong IT Partner

How Shortsighted Mistakes Lead to Long-term Costs Every big IT project is intimidating. Organizations outsource these to an IT partner because they don’t have (or necessarily need) in-house expertise...

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Reminder: Your Technology Assessment is Overdue

Stay competitive. Take advantage of your technology assets. How do you keep up with changes in your market? In lean times, you’ll likely pore over your budgets, evaluate your most important assets, and...

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The Fundamental Techie

IT Personality Traits That May Surprise You It’s a seller’s market when it comes to top IT talent. As enterprise technology has quickly occupied a larger and larger piece of the organizational asset...

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Nightmares in Technology Projects

From scope creep to sales creep, technology project fears that will make you scream It’s a scary notion, beginning a new technology project. You know it’s going to hurt your budget; you think you know...

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Let Them Eat KPI

An integrated approach to KPI and MDM in healthcare The spotlight on IT in the healthcare industry has never been more blinding. Healthcare reform (e.g., Meaningful Use, ICD-10 conversion) has mandated...

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Dot Your “I”s and Cross Your “T”s

A checklist for maintaining control over software development projects How can you ensure control over your software development project? Selecting a qualified IT vendor is only the first of many...

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Rethinking Processes

What an old carmaker can teach us about innovation General Motors is a new company. That’s right—the old, hulking (and recently bankrupt) giant of American industry has the DNA of a startup. That fact...

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Mind Over Machines

A Tutorial Technology folks are used to blank stares when they talk about their work. But we’ve had a number of friends confess they’re not quite sure just what Mind Over Machines does. The short...

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You know it’s time to hire a technology partner when…

The Tell-Tale Signs — a Top 10 See anything familiar? You see market opportunity and need technology that will help you take advantage. You have a bunch of data.  And no idea what to do with it. You’re...

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Making the Case for a Strategic Technology Plan

Would a general go into battle without a defined plan? Never. Neither would he consider each operation individually. Rather, he would pursue tactics that link all of the battles together to meet a...

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Delivering Technology Projects

ThomasNet News Tech Trends Journal writer Faye Rivkin interviewed Mind Over Machines IT solutions expert Michael Askin for best practices on delivering high value manufacturing-related technology...

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