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Keeping Tech Talent—the Critical Difference

The next frontier in the coming talent war, according to McKinsey, will be deep analytics to probe big data as a basis of competition underpinning new waves of productivity, growth, and innovation. Are...

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Tax Changes in the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012

In the dark of night on January 1, 2013, Congress finally passed a bill (which the President signed on January 2) that temporarily avoids the worst effects of the "fiscal cliff." The American Taxpayer...

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Is Cognitive Computing Coming to Your Business?

Remember HAL, the computer in the film 2001 A Space Odyssey (arguably one of the greatest movie opening screens of all time). View it here. HAL was a cognitive computer gone rogue. Cognitive computing...

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The Case for Solid State Disk

PwC is bullish on mobile, projecting a 35% CAGR through 2015, driven in large part by solid state disk (SSD) technology. The PwC researchers now see it extending beyond mobile to other types of...

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5 Questions That Set the Stage for Cloud Deployment

Cloud computing clearly is gaining traction. A September study conducted by the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), reported on here, found that organizations are embracing the cloud at a 15% faster rate...

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Front Line Troops in the Coming Talent War

A few weeks ago wiredFINANCE wrote about research around the coming talent wars and the critical role of IT. There is a transition underway to increasingly connected economies, and companies that...

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Academy Awards and Analytics-based Performance Management

I always find the acceptance speeches at Hollywood’s Academy Awards to be inspirational. The ones I enjoy most are Oscar recipients who thank the teams that contributed to their receiving the award....

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Big Data Drives Surging Interest in Business Intelligence

Big data is fueling exploding interest in the business intelligence (BI) segment of the software market. BI is what managers have long used to make information-based decisions. With big0 data BI...

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Don’t Go Into the Cloud Without CMP

Organizations everywhere are beginning to move pieces of their IT capabilities into the cloud. Just don’t forget to bring a cloud management platform (CMP) with you. Although the cloud management...

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The US Government’s Sequester – Anything versus Everything

I tend to be an apolitical person. I try to be internally apolitical within organizations I am employed by as well as related to government politics. But now I have a dilemma. It is not with an...

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Managing Compliance in a Challenging Environment

A recent study by ADP found that 81% of finance executives felt compliance was getting more complex. ADP conducted the survey in collaboration with CFO Research showing 89% of senior finance executives...

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Profit Velocity—the Missing Metric

Have you found the missing metric? As CFO you probably feel you have all the metrics you need and more but one is missing. For Google Analytics, the missing metric is $ Index, described as the fastest...

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Exceptional EPM / CPM Systems are an Exception

Many organizations over-rate the quality of their enterprise and corporate performance management (EPM / CPM) methods and supporting software systems as well as exaggerate how comprehensive and...

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Exceptional EPM/CPM Systems are an Exception

Many organizations overrate the quality of their enterprise and corporate performance management (EPM/CPM) methods and supporting software systems as well as exaggerate how comprehensive and integrated...

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Stupid Executives Should Be Fired!

April 1, 2013 A potential risk is lurking for opportunistic organizations losing sales. That is, there is a danger for companies that are making stupid decisions, especially by their executives. For...

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Price Optimization Tools Market Rebounds

Research leader Gartner reports the price optimization market is poised to rebound. Driving the rebound is mounting interest among enterprises for improving margins and revenue, increasing...

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The CFO as Captain Chaos

When Eric Berridge, co-founder of Bluewolf Group, suggests the CFO as Captain Chaos he is recognizing that someone has to take charge of the chaos increasingly surrounding us. He wrote recently in his...

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