Google announced the general availability of two big data products formerly in beta: Google Cloud Dataflow and Google Cloud Pub/Sub. The two tools complete Google's plan to bring its entire suite of internal big data tools into general availability....
Lately, when I am gathering requirements from CEOs about their CIO search, they tell me, “We are also thinking about hiring a chief digital officer. What is the division of responsibilities between the CIO and the CDO?” The answer is all over the map these...
Sales plans should motivate and inspire people to stretch, achieve, and grow but these 5 classic blunders will do just the opposite. It doesn't matter what business you're in, sales is the single most important part of how you will grow. Yet, far too many founders...
As more money pours into the tech sector and billion-dollar "unicorn" companies continue to pop up in Silicon Valley, it's important to take a moment to remember those startups that crashed and burned instead of cashing out. A new website — Autopsy.io — just launched...
Every successful businessman or woman has to get their Zs, and that's about to take on a while new meaning. We already know about the impact the millennial generation is having on society and the workplace. While their impact will be felt for decades to...
It’s no longer enough to offer a great position and salary package to talented IT professionals. These days, organizations must do much more to keep talent in today's IT job market. The Enterprisers Project asked six top IT executives what creative steps they're taking to...
Facebook is waging war against fake Likes, and the results have been profitable. According to Facebook site integrity engineer Matt Jones, the social network has obtained nearly $2 billion in legal judgments against spammers. Spammers tempt unknowing businesses with schemes to boost their Facebook audience by...
Clark Golestani, CIO of Merck, has adapted McKinsey’s Three Horizons framework for his IT organization at the $44B pharmaceutical company. In the McKinsey model, Horizon One includes the core products and markets that provide the majority of a company’s revenue. Horizon Two covers emerging products...
Today the administration announced the availability of $235 million in funds to support the Beacon Community Program. The Beacon Community Program (BCP) will help to accelerate and demonstrate the ability of health IT to transform local health care systems, and to improve the lives...
A partial list of things for which I'm thankful this week: For American innovation, ingenuity and inventiveness, three “Is” in a winning team that will rebuild our economy long after the stimulus payments are gone and for great teachers who inspire kids to learn and...