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“Homo Corporatus” was basing his/her business decisions on gut feel long before computers existed. Winging it and winning was the highest validation of the savvy business leader.  But now, a new age has dawned.  Can tech leaders use BI wizardry to beat, or at least better Homo Corporatus’ decision making? Just how intelligent is BI?

A rainmaker is someone who excels at bringing in business. While not a person, cloud computing has certainly seeded lots of new IT service providers looking for a piece of the action, not only externally, but internally. Outsourcing some services can be efficient but that also means there is less control over data, while keeping everything internal can require significant investment and involve risks. So ultimately, the real question comes down to what the future shape of private cloud computing will be.

Just how alien is the business side of an organization to the IT workers running things, and vice versa? Traditionally we think of IT guys as geeks who are focused on their own narrow little world. Still, any worker could help watch to see that little things which might have slipped by someone on the business side are caught before they create a problem. But is it reasonable to expect those same  IT workers, who are often heavily involved in tasks strategic to running the business, and who may need to focus fully on the IT tasks at hand, to also keep an eye on customers, competitors, and the business environment, as if they were the guys wearing the business suits?

Crises come from many directions, both internal and external, and take many forms. The real issue of what is at stake is what we do about them.

Fans are passionate, even obsessive about someone or something…  Some of us are fans of the latest bleeding edge technology.  A salesman, a CEO, an entrepreneur, can all be fans of their business or product.  But are such passions only in the eye of the beholders?