Anno 2012 is cloud computing gemeengoed geworden in zowel het privé- als werkdomein. Dagelijks maken we gebruik van maildiensten als Gmail en bewaren/delen we informatie en beeldmateriaal op sociale netwerken als Facebook en Twitter. Organisaties maken op hun beurt steeds meer gebruik van applicaties zoals Pleio, Dropbox en de nieuwe service Google Drive die op afstand gehost worden bij externe datacenters.
Cloud computing biedt laagdrempelige toegang tot een gezamenlijke bron van in te stellen ICT-middelen, zoals servers, opslagcapaciteit, applicaties en webservices. Deze bronnen kunnen snel vrijgegeven en ingezet worden met minimale beheeractiviteiten of interactie met de providers van de gewenste oplossingen. De “cloud” is een populair begrip, waarbij er drie typen diensten kunnen worden onderscheiden: Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service en Software as a Service.
As mentioned in my previous post, I see more and more organizations that start to understand the potential value of their data as a key business enabler. In order to truly uncover the value of data it needs to be managed and controlled, or in other words, governed. Basically, no matter how small or ‘big’ your data, it all starts with data governance.
In a lot of publications it is already mentioned that implementing successful data management should not be an ‘IT exercise’, but requires a careful alignment between people, processes and technology. Effective governance requires not only defining organizational roles and responsibilities, but also defining policies and standards and the processes needed to enforce and maintain these. It also requires providing the right technology solutions, like workflow processes, data quality dashboards and a MDM repository. Having worked for many years in the data management area, I have learned that the people or organizational component in an organization often is the key which makes data governance a success or not.
The 3 key elements of data governance
Unfortunately there is no single governance solution that fits all, organizations have to build a governance model that closely follows its business practice and fits as closely as possible to its culture. Throughout various implementations, I have seen that there are 3 key data governance elements that should be present in any model, sponsorship, ownership and stewardship. Read more…
Two weeks ago The Next Web organized the first TNW CxO Summit in partnership with Accenture at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. Aimed at senior executives, leading thinkers, and founders, this invitation-only conference featured world class speakers sharing their thoughts on topics including the Internet, mobile, technology, media, finance and entertainment.
The summit started with a welcoming note by TNW founder Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Accenture’s Senior Executive Digital Transformation Harald Timmer. During the four hour Summit I had the opportunity to interview four speakers asking what brought them to The Next Web Summit, the key takeaways of their presentation and what their advice is for enterprises to start doing tomorrow.
The rise of the Data Scientist
Hilary Mason – Chief scientist at Bit.ly discusses the rise of the Data Scientist, a new class of professionals integrated into large and small organizations enabling them to make sense out of the Big Data stored in their servers. Data scientists are building products and models out of data and explaining and visualizing it, turning that wealth of data into usable benchmarks for sound business decisions.
Tapping the minds of many
Looking to the future, crowds and crowd sourcing are the future of business, governments and social innovation, according to Ross Dawson. This futurist and author on how companies can leverage social networking for knowledge sharing – explained that looking at the future enables organizations to make better decisions. Read more…
In the run-up to the Accenture Innovation Awards 2012, one of Europe’s leading creativity and innovation platforms, PICNIC invites Accenture to visit the Innovation Mash Up on May 15th at Amsterdam’s Pakhuis de Zwijger. Aimed at Dutch and international professionals responsible for driving business development and managing innovation processes, the Mash Up will explore how businesses in various sectors can successfully apply top innovation processes used by creative industry professionals to launch new products and services, engage clients and customers, and enable grow.
Advances in sensor technologies and internet availability revolutionize the way in which we look and sense the world around us. Weather forecasts or stock prices can be checked anytime and everywhere by using smart phones. According to Gartner more than 50% of Internet connections are currently related to objects instead of PCs or mobile devices.
Although broader themes like Intelligent Infrastructure are attracting more and more attention, RFID is still considered a powerful technology allowing objects and sensors to communicate to each other. In both cases, our lives will keep on being changed by smart objects capable of measuring for example temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure, send this information through the internet, and enable bigger insights out of it.
De strijd nadert zijn hoogtepunt nu de stembussen voor de Young Professional of the Year open gaan! Dit was ook te voelen toen de kandidaten weer bijeenkwamen om met elkaar de strijd aan te gaan in de laatste dag voor de verkiezing: Case day 2….
Dit keer gingen we direct met elkaar de strijd aan middels een wedstrijdje Sales en door met elkaar in debat te gaan over controversiële stellingen (bijvoorbeeld: “het geven van bonussen is de prikkel om mensen te motiveren”). Altijd leuk om een gegeven standpunt (“jij bent voor, succes.”) te verdedigen…. Maar het hoogtepunt was Read more…
Het proces van informatisering doet zich in ons hedendaags bestaan op tal van plaatsen voor. Niet alleen in de privésfeer, maar ook op breder maatschappelijk vlak. Hoe ingrijpend dit proces is, blijkt uit een breed scala van onderwerpen die zich dagelijks aandienen: werkverhoudingen, databanken en sociaal culturele uitingen. Informatisering kan ook haar invloed hebben op de ontwikkeling rondom het toezicht op mensen en organisaties. Deze ontwikkelingen in de wijze waarop mensen in de huidige samenleving met elkaar omgaan, hebben belangrijke culturele gevolgen. Onze kijk op de wereld wordt steeds meer een technologische. Daarnaast vallen processen van versnelde maatschappelijke verandering (toenemende individualisering) en verstarring waar te nemen.
Op uiteenlopende manieren krijgen veel mensen in hun werk met computers en informatiesystemen te maken. Nadat een automatiseringsproject eenmaal zijn beslag heeft gekregen is de invloed hiervan op de organisatie, de inhoud van het werk en de werksfeer onmiskenbaar. Nieuwe technologieën bieden vele nieuwe mogelijkheden tot product- en procesvernieuwing. Door deze mogelijkheden te benutten kunnen taken worden gecreëerd die voorheen niet bestonden: technologie wordt hierdoor niet alleen benut om het oude effectiever en efficiënter te maken, maar ook om nieuwe mogelijkheden te realiseren.
SPE Intelligent Energy International is an annual conference and exhibition organized by the Society
of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). With approximately 2000 senior energy industry delegates this year’s
edition, themed “Transformation – time for decisive action” addressed the need for innovative and more
efficient methods to maximize production, increase recovery and improve HSE.
During this three day event Accenture hosted a client dinner and networking event which included a
short demonstration of our mobile Integrated Oilfield Solutions (IOS) application for a selected group of
industry executives.
Management Team, the largest business magazine in the Netherlands, has released its MT500: the annual ranking of the top 500 companies with the best image in the Netherlands. This list is based on independent research and mirrors the opinions of nearly 1500 managers.
Coming from the 75th position in 2010, in 2011 we climbed 21 positions to number 44. Following last year’s great result we are more than proud to announce that Accenture managed to reach the top 50 for the second time ranking #35 on this year’s MT 500.
In its write-up, MT expects Accenture to rise even further in the future. For the full article, see below (in Dutch). Read more…
The Next Web Conference, held in Amsterdam later this week, is set to make one thing very clear: to remain competitive organizations need a robust and flexible business model to support the rapid and radically changing digital revolution. Up until now the digital revolution has been mainly about information. Customers have had increasing levels of access to static and dynamic information which allows them to take on more control and create new expectations inthe interactionwith organizations.
At Accenture we believe the future of the digital revolution will be about the interaction. Organizations will be challenged to design and deliver personalized interactions between themselves and their (potential) customers. Customers demand that suppliers understand their needs and they expect a tailored experience. Therefore organizations need to take an active step to make use of the available data and continue to enrich the customer profile with new data obtained during the interactions or via external sources. In addition organizations also need to take note of the customers increasing willingness to interact with their peers through social platforms. Enabling these peer to peer interactions is vital to create brand awareness and market penetration of organizations products and services.
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Anno 2012 is cloud computing gemeengoed geworden in zowel het privé- als werkdomein. Dagelijks maken we gebruik van maildiensten als Gmail en bewaren/delen we informatie en beeldmateriaal op sociale netwerken als Facebook en Twitter. Organisaties maken op hun beurt steeds meer gebruik van applicaties zoals Pleio, Dropbox en de nieuwe service Google Drive die op afstand gehost worden bij externe datacenters.
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