Smart Data Collective

JULY 16, 2023

We usually talk about the benefits of big data from the perspective of financial institutions such as hedge fund managers, insurance companies and banks. These companies have certainly benefited from big data, which explains why global financial companies spent $10.8 It will play an even more important role in the future.

Big Data 190

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Innovation Banking 190

Analysts Corner

JANUARY 13, 2023

Back to the Basics Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash As a business analyst , I often get questions from young professionals on LinkedIn about breaking into the field. Today, I want to tell you about “business analysis.” They get cross-functional teams moving in the same direction.

Business Analysis 236

Business Analysis Business Analysis Finance Documentation 236

ElegantJ BI

APRIL 12, 2022

You can measure the wrong things and end up knowing nothing about what is happening in your enterprise, and which tasks and activities are contributing to your bottom line, as opposed to the tasks that are non-productive and business processes that should be modified. Metrics are fine, but deciding what is important to measure is crucial.

Business Intelligence 162

Business Intelligence Business Intelligence Monitoring Vision 162

Argon Digital

MARCH 6, 2024

Transforming Processes During SAP Deployment is Essential for Realizing Full Value Implementing a new ERP platform, like SAP, is not just about navigating technical and managerial hurdles; it’s a pivotal moment for business transformation. Most companies come out of this exercise with most processes targeted for customization.

Planning 105

Planning 105

Leading Agile

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Four Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation In this article, our CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, explores why focusing on practices and culture isn’t the right place to start an Agile Transformation. Next, he talks about how Agile Transformation is an ongoing process and the importance of teaming strategies. Is SAFe Agile?

Agile 62

Agile Planning Vision Government 62

Insight Software

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Global hyper-growth company attributes 333% revenue growth to acquisition strategy, consolidating organizational data to round out one of the broadest reporting, analytics, and performance management solution sets available RALEIGH, N.C, ​​Nov. 8, 2023 — insightsoftware today announced it earned No. technology sector leader.

Finance 59

Finance Innovation Planning 59

Cprime

MARCH 1, 2024

As a leader in providing enterprise technology and financial management solutions , Cprime is uniquely positioned to help companies harness the combined power of LeanIX and Apptio. By correlating architectural configurations with their associated costs, companies can make targeted adjustments to reduce expenses and enhance value delivery.

Enterprise Architecture 105

Enterprise Architecture Agile Innovation Planning 105

Timo Elliott

JANUARY 18, 2021

My personal, edited, unofficial, paraphrased transcription: Timo: I understand that Microsoft was one of the first companies to issue a stay-at-home order for its employees at a global level, so how was Microsoft first alerted that a potential pandemic was underway? We have a crisis management team across the world.

Digital Transformation 177

Digital Transformation Healthcare Digital Visualization 177

ElegantJ BI

APRIL 12, 2022

You can measure the wrong things and end up knowing nothing about what is happening in your enterprise, and which tasks and activities are contributing to your bottom line, as opposed to the tasks that are non-productive and business processes that should be modified. Metrics are fine, but deciding what is important to measure is crucial.

Business Intelligence 130

Business Intelligence Business Intelligence Monitoring Vision 130

ElegantJ BI

APRIL 12, 2022

You can measure the wrong things and end up knowing nothing about what is happening in your enterprise, and which tasks and activities are contributing to your bottom line, as opposed to the tasks that are non-productive and business processes that should be modified. Metrics are fine, but deciding what is important to measure is crucial.

Business Intelligence 130

Business Intelligence Business Intelligence Monitoring Vision 130

ElegantJ BI

MAY 11, 2021

The Corona Virus (COVID-19) has taught us many hard lessons, not the least of which is the importance of being prepared, the importance of anticipating what may be just around the corner, and the importance of being able to theorize, hypothesize and predict. Over 60% of all companies are increasing or maintaining their data analysis budget.

Digital Transformation 130

Digital Transformation Digital Supply Chain Data Analytics 130

ElegantJ BI

MAY 11, 2021

The Corona Virus (COVID-19) has taught us many hard lessons, not the least of which is the importance of being prepared, the importance of anticipating what may be just around the corner, and the importance of being able to theorize, hypothesize and predict. Over 60% of all companies are increasing or maintaining their data analysis budget.

Digital Transformation 130

Digital Transformation Digital Supply Chain Data Analytics 130

ElegantJ BI

MARCH 15, 2022

Reports that ‘Speak Your Language’ Accountants, finance professionals, inventory managers and purchasing professionals are just a few of the staff that will find built-in reporting designed to answer questions and illustrate results in a way that reveals trends, patterns, and helps the team to get to the bottom of things.

Finance 130

Finance Business Intelligence Business Intelligence Planning 130

ElegantJ BI

MARCH 15, 2022

Reports that ‘Speak Your Language’ Accountants, finance professionals, inventory managers and purchasing professionals are just a few of the staff that will find built-in reporting designed to answer questions and illustrate results in a way that reveals trends, patterns, and helps the team to get to the bottom of things.

Finance 130

Finance Business Intelligence Business Intelligence Planning 130

ElegantJ BI

MARCH 15, 2022

Accountants, finance professionals, inventory managers and purchasing professionals are just a few of the staff that will find built-in reporting designed to answer questions and illustrate results in a way that reveals trends, patterns, and helps the team to get to the bottom of things.

Finance 130

Finance Business Intelligence Business Intelligence Planning 130

Leading Agile

JULY 3, 2023

As more and more companies scramble to untangle the code of their monolithic legacy software and get it into the cloud, strategic priorities are shifting. But what if we told you there’s a whole class of DevOps considerations that no one is talking about that’s secretly killing your ability to unleash the potential of Agile?

Agile 124

Agile Skillset Innovation Monitoring 124

Smart Data Collective

JUNE 14, 2022

The costs of data breaches are becoming worse, which can easily cripple many companies. An estimated 60% of companies that fall victim to data breaches have to shut down within six months. As a result, 10% of all companies file for bankruptcy due to data breaches. Let us talk about a couple of them.

Government 223

Government Data Security Information Technology Information Technology 223

Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

I’m super passionate about creating a working environment that is supportive, nurturing, inclusive, and respectful of all employees. As you might expect, I spend a lot of time thinking about our culture and how I can contribute to its evolution and continuous improvement. That question led me to write this post.

Talent Acquisition 118

Talent Acquisition 118

Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

On one side, you have the camp that’s all about team-based, iterative and incremental delivery. On the other side, you have the camp that sees Agile more of a social movement; this side is all about empowering the teams and building a culture or a mindset of Agility. I frequently interact with leadership teams.

Agile 62

Agile Government Planning 62

Leading Agile

JANUARY 30, 2022

This is usually because we start with team-level Agility thinking that’s all we need. What happens is we form product aligned teams, and we get them working well enough, but they are in conflict with other parts of the organization that are there to protect other interests and concerns we can’t overlook. Overcoming Our Conflicts.

Agile 140

Agile Product Management Product Management Finance 140

Argon Digital

MARCH 22, 2024

Transforming Processes Rather Than Replicating Them During ERP Deployment Is Essential Implementing a new ERP platform, like SAP, is not just about navigating technical and managerial hurdles; it’s a pivotal moment for business transformation. Most companies come out of this exercise with most processes targeted for customization.

Finance 52

Finance Planning 52

Cprime

JANUARY 16, 2024

Companies are faced with a critical question: How can we genuinely build a learning solution that satisfies our specific requirements? An engineering team may learn best through hands-on projects, whereas an analytical team may prefer self-paced online content. Why invest in custom learning solutions?

Innovation 90

Innovation Healthcare Design Thinking Agile 90

Leading Agile

JUNE 2, 2021

There were a few days early in my career where I got to attend a big workshop with leaders from all over the globe flying in to figure out how their company was going to go Agile. . Their experience made them believe only dictators could bully their way through the red tape to make things happen in the company. .

Planning 125

Planning Agile 125

Business Analysis Knowledge Share

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

To reach David to learn more about Emotional Intelligence you can reach him at davidm@softed.com. David Mantica is the VP and General Manager for SoftEd US. In this interview, David provides some eye-opening thoughts in emotional intelligence and its role in Business Analysis.

Business Analysis 52

Business Analysis Business Analysis Project Management Product Management 52

Agilemania

APRIL 12, 2022

Let’s look at the tools but not before a brief introduction about SAFe. SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for attaining business agility using Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking, and DevOps. It aligns the agile development teams to the company goals. . What is SAFe?

Agile 91

Agile Portfolio Management Planning Visualization 91

Monday

OCTOBER 31, 2021

That mission doesn’t just apply to the over 127,000 companies we are proud to count as customers. And, as we announced in June , 2021 is the year monday.com became a publicly-traded company, in large part thanks to our incredible employees who helped make it all possible. In other words, happy employees equal happy customers.

Innovation 98

Innovation Customer Experience Customer Experience Agile 98

Tableau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This is the final post in a three-part series about data and analytics governance. In case you missed them, read the first to hear from Tableau’s own data governance team , and the second to learn how good governance accelerates your Data Culture. Crafting and executing your plan to amplify data and analytics. .

Government 99

Government Agile Documentation Data Governance 99

Insight Software

MARCH 30, 2021

Learn more about Longview Tax from insightsoftware. It follows that tax teams should think about how they can make significant contributions to the ERM planning process by providing short, mid- and long-term ETR forecasts based on accurate financial information. Understand new guidance from the OECD on transfer pricing.

Planning 98

Planning Monitoring Government 98

Tableau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This is the final post in a three-part series about data and analytics governance. In case you missed them, read the first to hear from Tableau’s own data governance team , and the second to learn how good governance accelerates your Data Culture. Crafting and executing your plan to amplify data and analytics. .

Government 98

Government Agile Documentation Data Governance 98

Cprime

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Read on to learn more about Anne. As I look at my new job as CEO at Cprime, that’s one of the things that I’m excited about and a little scared about because it’s a tremendous responsibility. As our new CEO, how do you motivate our executive leadership team? What inspires you?

Product Management 98

Product Management Product Management Innovation 98

Cprime

MARCH 19, 2021

My workday starts with a Zoom call with the overseas team in India for our daily standup meeting – it’s their end of day and with the big time difference, it’s the only time their day intersects with our US-based team. This morning, I am also having a meeting with one of our major executive sponsors.

Agile 119

Agile Planning 119

Business Analysis Knowledge Share

MARCH 9, 2023

Product managers are responsible for ensuring that the product meets the needs of customers and aligns with the company’s strategic goals. Product managers are responsible for defining the product vision, setting priorities for development, and making strategic decisions about the product roadmap.

Product Management 52

Product Management Product Management Business Analysis Business Analysis 52

Agilemania

DECEMBER 6, 2021

From not being able to manage inter-team dependencies to handle multiple sources of requirements to ensuring alignment between teams in both business & technical to delivering an increment or increasing value delivery, the challenges are a zillion. Software and IT teams delivering in an agile way alone isn’t enough.

Portfolio Management 98

Portfolio Management Vision Agile Innovation 98

Leading Agile

JUNE 7, 2021

In our Try It Series, we will explain a common Agile or company problem, and provide solutions that have worked for us in the past. We include entire job aides and coaching materials for our readers to experiment with at their teams. And the coaches learned a lot more than the teams did! Answer : Parking Cars.

Agile 131

Agile 131

Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Organizations are also transforming, initially, companies transitioned from waterfall to agile now they are implementing SAFe®-. There can be no more than two Agile teams supported by one PO. The PO will maintain the team backlog and contribute to the creation of the vision and roadmap before the event. During the iteration.

Vision 98

Vision Portfolio Management Agile Product Management 98

Leading Agile

MARCH 23, 2022

So, I’m the CEO of a company called Leading Agile, started about 11 years ago, I’m based in Atlanta, Georgia. We’ve gotten pretty big over the last couple years, we’re about 160, almost 270 people, we focus almost exclusively on Agile Transformation. Okay, well, that’s a big question, man, who is Mike Cottmeyer?

Business Architecture 140

Business Architecture Agile Project Management Government 140

Cprime

JANUARY 26, 2022

Routine cross-team dependency based around a particular skillset or tool is an example that is bound to occur. This is costly at every level of the Enterprise because it: Disrupts plans in execution. What is a Shared Services Team? How Does a Shared Services Team Operate? Increases cost of delays.

Skillset 98

Skillset Portfolio Management Digital Transformation Planning 98