CIOs Know That Analytics Are What Future Competition Is All About

Companies are all asking themselves one question: what’s it going to take to be successful? It turns out that a lot of the techniques that worked in the past won’t work anymore – lowering prices, etc. Going forward, the only thing that a modern company can complete on is their business processes. It turns out … Read more

What Went Wrong In The IT Department At Mizuho Bank?

Mizuho bank is one of the three largest banks in Japan. Forget everything that you may have heard about the earthquake, tsunami, and the radiation leaks in Japan – Mizuho has even bigger problems: they can’t keep their IT systems up! What Went Wrong At Mizuho Mizuho Bank is in the trust business. People are … Read more

CIO Case Study: How Much Are We Spending On Travel?

For CIOs, it’s all too easy for us to get caught up in, what else, the world of IT. We like to focus on things like servers, virtualization, networking, and making decisions about IP4 vs. IP6. It turns out that the rest of the company really doesn’t care about any of these things. They care … Read more