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Showing posts with label Online webinars. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

The Big Deal with Big Data and Predictive Analytics

Overview: While I fully expect each enterprise to add its own flavor to the mix, here's one way to get the big data and predictive analytics conversation started: Big data is a collection of data from traditional and digital sources inside and outside your company that represents a source for ongoing discovery and analysis. 

Some people will constrain big data to digital inputs like web behavior and social network interactions; however most CMOs and CIOs agree that we can't exclude traditional data derived from product transaction information, financial records and interaction channels, such as the call center and point-of-sale. All of that is big data, too, even though the volume of digital data that's now growing at an exponential rate may dwarf it.

Why should you attend: Terabytes, Petabytes, Exabytes. Who can keep track? These strange terms have just begun to enter the business lexicon, but the hype surrounding them has reached a fever pitch. Big data is important because it will transform how we manage our enterprises. Like any new technology, there is a lot of confusion surrounding big data. There are endless debates about what is and isn't big data.

Senior Fellow and Chief Strategist, Melvin Greer provides clarity around big data and predictive analytics and shows how enterprises are transformed by their use. There is a growing divide between organizations' who use data effectively and those who don't. Big data means much more than a change in technology, it represents a structural transformation is how we will manage our enterprises.

Areas Covered in the Session:

  • The Big Deal with Big Data
  • Using predictive analytics to transform business
  • Big Data, Analytics And The Future Of Marketing And Sales
  • Big Data and Predictive Analytics
  • The Cloud and Big Data
  • Big Data Success Stories
  • Strategic Recommendations: What Should I do Now?

Who Will Benefit:

  • Chief Marketing Officers
  • CIO's
  • IT Architects
  • Sales Executives
  • Web Content Developers
  • Bank Executives
  • Venture Capital Analysts
  • Educators

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Disciplined Agile Offshoring: Making it Work for Both the Customer and the Service Provider

Overview: Offshoring software development projects suffer from two significant yet easily addressed problems. First, the customer's instincts for how to run an outsourced project are more likely to hurt rather than help them. Second, service providers (SPs) prove to be little more than order takers that don't have the courage to negotiate a winning strategy. 

Why should you attend:
  • What will happen with your intellectual property (IP)?
  • How do you know that an outsourced project is on track?
  • How do you recover a troubled outsourced project before it's too late?
  • How do you build a healthy relationship with your outsourcing partners?
  • How do you know that a service provider can deliver in an agile manner?

Areas Covered in the Session:
  • What the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) framework is.
  • The risks associated with offshoring.
  • Disciplined agile offshoring from the point of view of the customer.
  • Disciplined agile offshoring from the point of view of the service provider.
  • What you need to do to succeed at disciplined agile offshoring.
  • Industry statistics regarding agile offshoring in practice
  • Criteria to determine if you're ready for offshoring IT delivery projects.

Speaker Profile: Scott Ambler

 is a Canadian software engineer, consultant and author, currently Senior Consulting Partner at Scott Ambler + Associates. He is a well-known author of numerous books focused on the Disciplined Agile Delivery process decision framework, the Unified process, Agile software development, the Unified Modeling Language, and CMM-based development. I spend much of my time exploring what works, what doesn't work, and why in software development. I regularly run surveys which explore such issues and work with organizations around the world to help them improve their software development approach.