{"id":8032,"date":"2014-06-06T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T19:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=8032"},"modified":"2022-11-22T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:20:15","slug":"weekly-recap-why-you-should-forget-big-data-how-to-align-business-and-it-metrics-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/weekly-recap-why-you-should-forget-big-data-how-to-align-business-and-it-metrics-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Recap: Why you should forget Big Data, how to align business and IT metrics, and more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-725\" title=\"Education\" alt=\"Education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Education.jpg\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>Summary: In this week&#8217;s article roundup, we learn why getting your &#8220;little data&#8221; right could save millions of dollars, why the cloud is becoming both less and more popular at the same time, and more.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"20140603\"><\/a><!--more--><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140606_ForgetBigData_BigData']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.business2community.com\/big-data\/forget-big-data-get-little-data-right-costing-millions-0901462#!UKDBN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">Forget Big Data: Get your little data right (It\u2019s costing you millions)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nWhile \u201cBig Data\u201d gets all the press, \u2018little\u2019 data holds more potential for most businesses. Getting your \u2018little\u2019 data right will drive better customer engagement and ultimately revenue growth. Get your <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'BI Paper']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/research\/BIPaper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">BI plan<\/span><\/a> in order, and the results will follow.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">Cloud computing: Has it failed, or is it just starting?<\/span><br \/>\nWhile the buzz surrounding the cloud is tapering off, are businesses losing interest in cloud computing? Far from it. Dissatisfied with the tardy pace of internal IT, developers and business units are turning to cloud service providers at an increasing rate.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">CIOs lack control over obsolete apps<\/span><br \/>\nWith the rise of applications in the cloud, a case could be made that there&#8217;s more urgency than ever for retiring the <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Legacy rejuvenation']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/5-ways-to-rejuvenate-your-legacy-applications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">legacy applications<\/span><\/a> that still exist in many companies. After all, a fair amount of the capabilities in many legacy apps is now clearly redundant. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">How to align business and IT metrics<\/span><br \/>\nIn an age of rapidly evolving technology and furious changes in the way business takes place, the role of metrics is growing more critical. Yet, a recent Gartner study found that only 31 percent of organizations have IT metrics in place to improve business operations, only 31 percent rely on a dashboard, and just less than half (48 percent) of IT leaders use <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'KPI']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.crazybikes.com\/mrcjava\/servlet\/CRAZYBIKES.Dashboard?name=KPI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">key performance indicators (KPIs)<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: In this week&#8217;s article roundup, we learn why getting your &#8220;little data&#8221; right could save millions of dollars, why the cloud is becoming both less and more popular at the same time, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Weekly Recap: Why you should forget Big Data, how to align business and IT metrics, and more... - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"Summary: In this week's article roundup, we learn why getting your \"little data\" right could save millions of dollars, why the cloud is becoming both less and m"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8032"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13966,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032\/revisions\/13966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}