by Dave McComb | Sep 1, 2021 | Business Case & ROI
Gartner has put “Knowledge Graphs” at the peak of inflated expectations. If you are a Knowledge Graph software vendor, this might be good news. Companies will be buying knowledge graphs without knowing what they are. I’m reminded of an old cartoon of an executive...
by Dave McComb | Feb 12, 2021 | Business Case & ROI
Let’s Stop Basing Capital Cost Decisions on Lagging Indicators. Remember the good old days of emerging digital technology? Accessing information through a dial-up internet connection. Saving data to floppy discs or CDs. Sending emails to have them printed for storage....
by Dave McComb | Sep 2, 2020 | Business Case & ROI
We just finished a conversation with a client who was justifiably proud of having centralized what had previously been a very decentralized business function (in this case, it was HR, but it could have been any of a number of functions). They had seemingly achieved...
by Dave McComb | Jun 17, 2020 | Business Case & ROI
Recently IDC predicted that IT spending will drop by 5% due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Last week, Gartner went further by predicting that IT spending would drop by 8% or $300 Billion.[2] (Expect a prediction bidding war.) Both were consistent: highest hit areas...
by Dave McComb | Aug 20, 2019 | Business Case & ROI
In 1986 I started down a path that, in 2019, has made me a fledgling Data-Centric revolution practitioner. My path towards the Data-Centric revolution started in 1986 with my wife and I founding two micro-businesses in the music and micro-manufacturing industries. In...
