I started to have my suspicions about how secure this network was and how compliant was the enterprise, strange things were happening in day-to-day processes and provisioning requests. Without SSO how did all the system accounts have the same user password to log in with? It was an interesting question that I asked myself. I was now into my second week at Solar, and being invited to a SOX meeting with some very serious partners KPMG and PWC, to talk SOX. Having prepared for SOX auditors...

6 months ago, my cell phone started to light up; it was late at night, and it takes three consecutive calls to come through for the phone to ring, and man, it was on fire. Calls, texts and a series of emails progressively getting stronger in the nature of alerting - an issue critical, system failure pending. I began to read the last communication first to see that my Salesforce CRM system was only now 2% away from completely crashing. I quickly got my team on the phone to understand what was...

1, The impossible, we did it as a team.
Ten months ago, I don’t know that I would have said this was possible. The first major project we took on as a team was project Horizon – we all gathered in a room full of very seasoned and professional individuals from HR, who outlined the project, what had to be delivered and by when. We had no data team; we had no tools to create APIs, and we had no cloud infrastructure or anyone on the team capable of designing or implementing the solution....

What's the "best" leadership style?
From Scientific Management to Servant Leadership and beyond, there are a number of theories and philosophies out there about management and leadership styles. Some think Taylor was completely off the mark with Scientific Management. Others think a Servant Leader is weak and ineffective.

Some attribute the different styles to the social structures of the time; neither is necessarily better or worse, but that each trend matches with the prevailing thought of...

Executive Summary, The objective of this strategy is to address three core components of enterprise information management which covers Data on Boarding, Enterprise Governance, and Enterprise Analytics.

The Chief Data Office should be the conduit between Information Technology and the business having one foot in each camp enabling an agile approach to Information Management.

The strategy will provide a rapid data on-boarding process that starts with a Hadoop cluster. This process will...