TIBCO’s founder, CEO, and new owner of the Sacramento Kings Vivek Ranadivé recently claimed that when hiring, his goal is to hire people smarter than him. His premise is that the right employee should have a good grasp of the three Q’s: IQ (intelligence quotient), SQ (social quotient), and EQ (emotional quotient)…. Read More →

When we last left Marc, our perfectly integrated consumer who is a fan of the companies he loves, he was heading off to work. A few hours have passed, and lunch is mercifully approaching. Marc’s morning was stressful. His workday has been, well, work. New, last-minute projects have fallen in… Read More →

There’s a classic episode of the American television show Seinfeld called “The Comeback” where a main character, George Costanza, is in a meeting, eating shrimp as quickly as he can. A coworker quips, “Hey, George, the ocean called and they’re running out of shrimp.” George, caught off guard, has nothing… Read More →

Take Marc, your typical citizen and consumer.  In this series, we are going to explore what a perfect day in the life of Marc could look like.  Let’s begin with his morning. It Begins Before Even Waking Up Since we are going to imagine Marc’s perfect morning in the 21st… Read More →

The iPhone and Android now have over 700,000 apps available for download, and with Google’s 120,000, mobile apps total more than 1.5 million. Companies today need to see apps as an absolute must to keep users connected to their brands on the go, with the right functionality. Chipotle Mexican Grill… Read More →

Leveling Up in the Enterprise This post is part of a series discussing lessons gleaned from the video game industry. Catch the next part on Call of Duty and Data Analytics next Saturday. “What exactly does a new video game release have to do with Big Data?” I hear you ask. The… Read More →

In the last decade, the world population has increased by more than 700 million to reach seven billion today. And by 2050, there will be two billion more people to feed. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), food insecurity is a major global concern today. With food… Read More →

Now, well into 2013, the concept of Big Data is already becoming an outdated non sequitur. As data increases rapidly, storing huge amounts of data in uncorrelated, separated silos (in database or data warehouse storage) that need to be constantly queried can’t drive any new, intelligent change in a business…. Read More →

Waiting for a foreseeable problem and then fixing it after the fact is pointless and damaging to a company. Calculating risk and preventing an issue before it becomes one is the basis for why integration is no longer just a nice idea, but a basic IT skill, as expressed in… Read More →

It is a huge fail to only consider the technology aspect when making any large-scale operational change like integration. And it’s all too common: a big project is approached solely from a technology, IT perspective without full adoption by the business users and ends up being taken for granted. There… Read More →