Loraine Lawson

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives Standards battles inevitable emerge whenever there’s new technology. Recent tech headlines suggest the Internet of Things (IoT) standards games began in earnest this month. Unlike past technologies, the IoT is attracting contenders from Internet giants such as Google and Cisco; technology kingpins such as Microsoft, IBM […]

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives Jason Bloomberg thinks the Internet of Things is doomed. He has a long post to prove it, too. I say he’s absolutely right, even as he’s wrong. After I wrote about the Internet of Things on Friday, Bloomberg sent me a link to his recent post, […]

Six Key Steps to Build a Successful Digital Business Technologists are almost always on-board for promoting an IT job out of the division and straight to the boardroom. I can’t count the number of proposed CXO positions I’ve seen while covering technology, some of which I thought were smart to promote. For instance, back at […]

How to Effectively Manage the Internet of Things People really don’t get the Internet of Things (IoT). It astonishes me how far behind the non-tech press is on this issue. For instance, this week, I was reading through a long and pretty impressive list of headlines about the IoT. There were articles about IoT in […]

2014 Big Data Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges You probably won’t be surprised to find that cloud adoption is still driving integration, but you may be surprised to learn what that reveals about changing business priorities. Constellation Research’s newest report confirms that, yes, organizations are still concerned with cloud integration. But the reasons have changed. For […]

In-Memory: Speeding Up Value by Using Operational Intelligence In the beginning, experts said Big Data technologies would lead to the end of enterprise data integration, with data eventually moving into one, big in-memory or Hadoop system. That was before the Internet of Things (IoT), with its never-ending stream of data. It seems the IoT is […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off I wouldn’t normally write about sports on this blog …or at all, really, but here’s an unexpected development: Today, famed statistician and data geek Nate Silver revealed that he and his company, FiveThirtyEight, ran a data analysis on whether LeBron James should stay with Miami […]

Three Big Problems Big Data Will Create in 2014 Rene Bertagna ran a northern Virginia restaurant called the Serbian Crown for 40 years. It attracted Washington, D.C. diners with unusual fare such as horse, lion and kangaroo meat. For 40 years, his restaurant was a dining destination in and of itself. Bertagna blames the Internet, […]

Five Ways to Use Data to Be More Relevant to Customers It’s easy to think of integration as an IT problem, but two recent stories exemplify how integration—or lack thereof—can be a major strategic turning point. The first is a story of crime and integration. In a recent Information Week commentary, Accenture Consultants Jody Weis […]

Six Reasons Businesses Need to Pay Attention to Unstructured Data Lauren Horwitz, executive editor at SearchCRM, is writing a series on the adoption of mobile CRM. Her first piece focused on all the reasons it’s a good idea, but in the follow-up, she examined some of the barriers to adoption. I wasn’t surprised to see […]

Millennials Expect Brands to Use Their Unique Data for Hyper-Targeted Experiences Not every company has a Big Data problem. In fact, many companies are operating in “relatively sparse data environments,” says David Meer, a partner with Strategy&’s consumer and retail practice. This isn’t your usual rant about how companies need to fix small data problems […]

Five Ways to Use Data to Be More Relevant to Customers Some experts think too many organizations are approaching master data management (MDM) as a “must-do” without really understanding or achieving its potential. In fact, Forrester MDM and data expert Michele Goetz says MDM isn’t something every company should pursue. If you’re interested in drilling […]