Monthly Archives: May, 2011
BI vs. Analytics: Understanding the Role of Each in Making Informed Decisions (Part 1)
Information impacting business operations is diverse, complex and growing at staggering rates. Due to unrelenting competition, changing markets, and accelerating rates of adoption for new technology, there is a tremendous strain on IT and business infrastructures. Accessibility to actionable knowledge continually sparks the debate between business intelligence and analytics, questioning the roles each of them [...]
Where Does Knowledge Really Exist?
Where does knowledge really reside in your organization? If managing knowledge was an easy problem to solve, it would have been solved years ago. Today, however, in this age of information, organizations continue to struggle with the notion of knowledge. Here’s the knowledge challenge: it is not really about the creation of knowledge, but about [...]
The “Intentional Approach” to Technology Adoption Part 6: Using Technology Adoption Theory
Maximizing adoption requires understanding the motivations of different groups of users and tailoring your deployment messages and materials to address their perspectives. These groups are summarized in Table 1. Technology adoption guru Geoffrey Moore suggests that the best way to drive broad adoption is to begin with the group at the top of this table, [...]
The “Intentional Approach” to Technology Adoption Part 5: Technology Adoption Theory
Maximizing technology adoption requires understanding the motivations of different groups of users and tailoring your deployment messages and materials to address their perspectives. So what are these different groups of users and are they really so different? Understanding how people choose and adopt new technology is critical. This material is based on the Everett Rogers [...]