Macro Trends and What to Do About It

There are a series of macro trends playing out that are going to force organizations to re-think how they make sense of data and compete.  For example, organizations are actually getting dumber – an effect caused in part by advances in information technology which help to produce information at rates faster than organizations can make sense of it. What does this mean?  While organizations already recognize that information overload is driving inefficiency, missed opportunity and missed risk, it is going to get so much worse that it is safe to say “no army of analysts, of any size, is going to remedy this trend by brute force.”  Now what?

Tracks: IT & the Bottom Line and IT Management