As a youngster, I never liked change. I didn’t like birthday parties. And I didn’t like having to get new clothes each September before school started. I liked the clothes I had. My mother, however, thought differently. I got new clothes whether I wanted them or not. I got a haircut whether I wanted it or not.
Today’s businesses face the same types of dictates. Well, okay, my mother isn’t making everyone get haircuts. Or new outfits. But the market is dictating that businesses be able to respond in a much more integrated fashion. Not only integrated, but a much faster fashion as well. Today’s organizations need to be much more efficient in using information effectively, managing information efficiently, and turning that information into insight so that business decision makers can make the right decisions.
