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Thinking About “Data Program Governance”
Creating a data program governance strategy is not unlike creating other types of enterprise business strategies.
Developing a Basic Model for Data Analytics Project Selection
One of the benefits of focusing on behavioral outcomes as a way of assessing the effectiveness or usefulness of improved data analytics is that behavioral outcomes are potentially measurable.
Real World Project Management: The Communications Management Plan
you need an online place to go where all the project “basics” are available to all team members and stakeholders as well as up to date information about ongoing work.
When Does a Public Data Good Become a Private Data Resource?
It may be that the greatest challenge facing private entrepreneurs in developing new and valuable information products and services based at least partially on public data will be public resistance to paying for information, no matter how new, innovative, or unique these producrts or services are.
Who Buys Strategy Consulting These Days?
“It seems there are two extreme situations where people buy high-end analytical strategy work. At one end of the spectrum you have a company that’s doing well, has money to spend, and is in the enviable position where management can afford to “sit back” and contemplate what to do next. At the other end of the spectrum you have the company that’s not doing well, has cash flow problems, is having a tough time making payroll, but management realizes it really needs to do something different and wants to have an outsider look rationally at the problem of what to do next.”
Panel Discussion: Transparency and the Obama Administration
On Monday Dec. 3, 2012 at the invitation of Hudson Hollister of the Data Transparency Coalition I attended the “Transparency and the Obama Administration” panel discussion on Capitol Hill in Washington DC sponsored by the Congressional Transparency Caucus.
Back in August I posted “Let’s Stop Talking about ‘Social Business’” where I made the following statement:
Let's Stop Talking about "Social Business"
Let’s stop talking about “social business” as if it were some sort of change in how organizations behave.
Two Simple Organizing Models for Communication Program Planning
Sometimes I need to be whacked on the side of the head to keep things simple.
Command Line continues a tradition of intelligent, literate, and thoughtful interviews with his October 1, 2008 interview with Evan Prodromou of Control Yourself. The interview provides insight into the related topics of open source software commercialization, and the possible “federated” nature of post-Twitter micro-blogging.
Given my longstanding interest in copyright, I’ve been following the AP anti-fair-use story with some interest (e.g., see this by Jason Kintzler, or this by Julian Baldwin; there’s also an interesting discussion thread ongoing at the Linkedin Bloggers group on Yahoo! Groups).
Comments and Jumping Through Online Hoops
Jive Software’s Sam Lawrence is at it again. In his blog post Media execs are asleep at their own wheel he takes online magazine publishers to task for putting too many roadblocks in the way of readers’ gaining access to and engaging with their content. According to Sam,
Associations, Management Control, and the Role of Social Media Tools
Jamie Notter’s post Web 2.0: Participation, Trust, and Beta comments on an earlier post by Virgil Carter titled Web 2.0: Culture, Belief System, or Tool-Kit?
Years of managing, studying, developing, consulting on, and using information technology have taught me about the realities of using technology for business advantage. Here are ten of these realities:
Blogospheric fulminations about Facebook and Beacon are beginning to die down. Here’s the comment I left on Tom Foremski’s MSFT: Setting Up Facebook For Failure? post:
I'm listening to another one of Command Line's podcasts, this time Rant: Is Fair Use a Right? (Command Line produces one of my five favorite podcasts.)
Despite the logical nature of Command Line's thesis (he believes that copyright Fair Use is a "right," not just a legal defense) I'm still skeptical about being able to unambiguously explain to people what their "fair use" rights actually are.
How Involved Should the U.S. Government Be in the Scholarly Journal Publishing Business?
Wired News on March 14, 2007 posted a story about U.S. Senators John Cornyn’s and Joseph Liebermann’s announced decision to re-introduce last year’s Federal Research Public Access Act (S.2695, also called “FRPAA”).