Shop.org is the place to meet the top influencers and practitioners from the digital retail community. Retailers and brands must transition from simply selling to customers to establishing relationships with them through personalized digital experiences driven by relevant content. Customers expect to be inspired, influenced, engaged and reassured that they have selected the right supplier... more
“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” So goes an ancient Japanese proverb. As a CIO, you know better than most how important it is to balance vision and action: Even the best plan can fail because of poor execution. From digital transformation to cloud migration or organizational optimization, the... more
If you are defining or re-thinking your Master Data Management (MDM) strategy, you have probably wondered how you can make your MDM journey successful for you, your team and your organization. Wouldn’t it be great to learn from people and organizations who have successfully gone through this before? Tom Gottweis, MDM – expert and Head... more
Everyone wants their businesses to become data-driven enterprises. The potential rewards are to compelling to ignore – including improved visibility into customers, markets and operations, the ability to predict what’s coming, and new paths to innovation. However, as with all good things, there’s a risky side as well – namely, that business leaders may drink... more
A few days ago, I was trying to transact on one of the many online appliance rental sites. It required a staggering amount of documentation for even the cheapest appliance. Among the many documents required was a copy of the Aadhaar card, a scanned color copy, nothing less. Verification, I was told, would take at... more
*Guest post by Barry Green, Chief Data Officer (Interim) at Bank of Ireland Policy Next Steps Many assume that the Chief Data Officer’s (CDO) policy and data management are relatively well understood. This broadly includes governance, quality and controls, modelling & architecture, usage & flows and key domains. It is the ‘how’, which causes the issues. This... more
How much data has grown in Salesforce YOY? As we all know, companies of all sizes have been migrating their applications to the cloud. Salesforce is the biggest example of how SaaS is expanding, penetrating all areas of the companies. Consequently, the number of users accessing the application grew significantly. More application, more users, more... more
With Shop.org just around the corner, I am reminded of a conversation I had at last year’s event. One of the attendees (Jim from a large retailer) told me that they have data quality problems but the data was good enough and asked why should they invest in improving something that was acceptable. Initially, I... more
What’s needed is a way to leverage the ubiquity of EDI and extend the capabilities of EDI with other relevant standards with the latest infrastructure technologies-- This “new trick” for old dogs allows business to leverage their B2B integrations using an older, but reliable standard in a modernized, highly flexible and scalable architecture.
For years, the big data and data analytics revolutions have been associated with offices – the tools and platforms of executives, analysts and knowledge workers. But in the background, big data and data analytics has been gradually building capabilities in another critical part of the enterprise – the factory floor. Data-driven transformation is playing a... more