Tag Archives: Efficiency

Top 5 Benefits For Making Big Data Small

Lean Data Management is a new approach to managing your data growth. It uses the “Lean” concept that originated with Toyota car manufacturing in the 1990’s. The “Lean” concept is based on maximizing efficiency, eliminating waste and providing more value to the customer. (See Informatica’s lean integration solutions as well as John Schmidt’s 10Weeks to [...]

Efficiency Is The Name Of Today’s Game

In my last post I talked about airlines becoming more efficient (or not) and I started thinking about how everything today is about efficiency – not a bad thing when you consider the growth of data volumes we’re seeing everywhere (go to YouTube and search “exponential times” – some interesting videos). Efficiency is necessary for [...]

Business/IT Collaboration – It DOES Matter

Nicholas Carr said “Scarcity, not ubiquity, makes a business resource truly strategic.” His infamous paper IT Doesn’t Matter(1) makes the point that since everyone can buy the same information technology, it is a commodity and therefore doesn’t matter from a strategic perspective. But Carr missed a key point – deriving value from information is not [...]