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| April 14, 2016

Finance leaders face significant shortages of accounting and finance professionals who possess the technical and nontechnical skills required for data analytics initiatives, according to research released by Robert Half International Inc. (NYSE: RHI) and the Institute of Management Accountants. When building their teams, managers most commonly seek skills in financial analysis (87%); followed by budgeting, planning, and forecasting (85%); operational analysis (82%); and cost management (81%). Fi...

| April 18, 2016

Is 2016 truly the year of big action with big data? Many of the attendees of the Strata & Hadoop World conference in San Jose apparently hope so. Acccording to Eric Sammer, co-founder and CTO at Rocana, many attendees he spoke with have now complete initial big data initiatives, and are looking for return on those investments this year. Information Management asked Sammer for his observations on this year’s show, and what attendees said are the top data management challenges they are facing....

Marketwired | April 25, 2016

The Prosper Foundation has announced that the Columbia Business School - Center on Global Brand Leadership is the latest university to receive a grant of relevant consumer data and analytic tools to help prepare students for careers in a data-driven world. The Center on Global Brand Leadership "creates, gathers, and shares insights on how to build and manage strong brands." The Center on Global Brand Leadership anticipates using the data for retail/media usage sector (student projects)...

  | June 17, 2016

The person at the top cannot learn for the organisation as a whole any more. Things have become too complicated, and leadership must, as Peter Senge said, become “leadership for learning”. It is now possible – and important – for people throughout an organisation to behave as leaders. The new collaborative systems that are being designed actually call for this. Talent and leadership from anywhere in your organisation – and even from outside of it – must be harnessed…...