Hear the latest thinking on how to manage information effectively to improve your organization's performance. In this ongoing series of podcasts, experts from Accenture Information Management Services draw on their broad industry and technology experience to explore a range of hot topics. Subscribe to keep up to date on key trends, challenges and solutions within business intelligence, enterprise content management, portals and data management. Further reading is often available—look for the accompanying link. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes.
Non-iTunes users: Read our podcast help and then copy the URL from this page's  button into your podcasting software.   Synthesizing Data for Actionable Decision-Making
Bob Thomas and the CIO Roundtable
Psychologist Howard Gardner explains synthesizing, the art of making sense of the information that bombards us. Then, Accenture's Bob Thomas leads a panel of CIOs from MIT, Partners Healthcare, Educational Testing Service and Fresenius Medical Care to discuss how the concept can be applied to help organizations make better decisions. Media HelpRead the Full Transcript [PDF, 125KB]
PDF Help Read more about analytics. Using Analytics to Create Competitive Differentiation
Bob Thomas and the CIO Roundtable Organizations have collected data for years. But have they really progressed in using this data for competitive differentiation? Accenture's Bob Thomas and CIOs from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Partners Healthcare, Educational Testing Service, and Fresenius Medical Care, discuss the realities.
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PDF Help Read more about analytics.   Business Intelligence 2.0
Soumendra Mohanty
Information Management Capability Lead, India Delivery Center
Business intelligence systems are making the jump from reporting on past results to providing real-time analysis to decision makers. Accenture executive Soumendra Mohanty defines business intelligence 2.0 and explains how it can help organizations pursuing high performance. Read the full transcript. Read more about Business Intelligence 2.0 and learn about our analytics solutions.  Accenture CIO Survey: Cultivating High Performance through Information Management
Royce Bell
CEO, Accenture Information Management Services
Royce Bell CEO, Accenture Information Management Services, highlights the key findings of Accenture's survey of CIOs on their use of information management to differentiate their organizations. Royce focuses on the data points he finds most interesting and draws his insights from the findings. View the full transcript. Read more about our CIO Survey results.  Event Monitoring Enables Better Business Decisions
Tony Almeida
Event Monitoring Global Program Lead
Accenture Information Management Services
Much of the information organizations use to make operational decisions comes piecemeal or too late. Tony Almeida describes a solution, Event Monitoring, which enables executives and managers to make faster and well-informed decisions. Read our Point of View "Event Monitoring Enables Fast and Well-Informed Decisions" to learn more.  First Architecture, Next Analytics
Jeanne G. Harris
Director of Research, Executive Fellow
Accenture Institute for High Performance Business
Using analytics to attain a competitive edge requires much more than the mere collection and storage of data. Jeanne G. Harris explains how to succeed by using a business intelligence architecture to draw insight from enterprise information.
Read the full transcript. Visit our Competing on Analytics home page for more on this topic, including a quiz to assess your organization's use of analytics.  Accenture's View of Information Management
Greg Todd
Executive Director, Accenture Information Management Services - Resources, Global
Greg Todd describes a framework for achieving a holistic information strategy. Todd explains how organizations seeking high performance are integrating their infrastructures to better use their data scattered across disparate platforms.
Competing on Analytics
Jeanne G. Harris
Executive Research Fellow, Director of Research
Accenture Institute for High Performance Business
Jeanne G. Harris discusses Accenture's new research that reveals how high performers exploit the power of analytics to out-think and out-execute the competition. Visit our Competing on Analytics home page for more on this topic, including a quiz to assess your organization's use of analytics. Information Management Trends for the Resources Industry
Greg Todd
Executive Director, Accenture Information Management Services - Resources, Global
Greg Todd discusses how companies in the resources industry are learning to leverage enterprise information in pursuit of high performance.  Enterprise Search and the High Performance Business
Nadia Jafri
Manager, Portals & Content Management
Nadia Jafri discusses the state of the Enterprise Search space today. Read more about this topic in our point of view, "In Search of Answers: Enterprise Search and the High Performance Business."
 Information Management for High Performance Governments
Chris Paladino
Executive Director, Accenture Information Management Services – Public Service, Global
Chris Paladino discusses how a comprehensive approach to information management helps government organizations meet challenges in performance management, knowledge sharing and citizen service.
Read more about this topic in our point of view, "Information Management for High Performance Governments." How Portals Enhance Business Performance
Chris Paladino
Executive Director, Accenture Information Management Services – Public Service, Global
Chris Paladino explores the latest thinking on how portals can enhance an organization's performance – from achieving excellence in employee communication and productivity to enhancing customer management and service. Read more about this topic in our point of view, "How Portals Enhance Business Performance." To Top |