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Data must be properly collected, categorized, indexed, made retrievable and stored. Your data is the product of human production hours and it cannot be easily replaced if it is ever lost. Intelligent data loss mitigation means storing data on a hard medium, on a back-up web-based medium and on a second hard medium ( flashdrive , or the like), kept at a secured facility. Yes. I am indeed advocating two different types of backup storage for your valuable data, both of which must be fail-safe secured. In the first case, your protection will always be somewhat questionable unless you are using you own backup server. Encryption of all data and dynamic password protection are helpful even if you are using someone's version of Carbonite , where the server is not under your control, but the data can be. In the second case, encryption of data is a good idea as well (as encryption is generally a good idea in any prospective multi-user or otherwise piracy-prone environment), but the most ...

The Standish Group’s original 1994 CHAOS Report has been often quoted but is currently hotly disputed. It purports to explain, in general terms, the reasons that IT and programming-oriented project management operations tend (arguably) to fall short of reasonable expectations in terms of projected delivery time, financial budget parameters and functionality upon completion -- if indeed, there is a fixed point of completion of the Minimum Viable Product ( MVP ) pursuant to original specifications.. It would seem, by the Report, and based upon some compelling anecdotal evidence that where IT and software -involved projects tend to run off of the rails in a number of ways and for a number of reasons, infrastructure projects (each with a physical result and expectations which can much more easily be visualized at the project’s inception) in contrast, tend to meet initial expectations and produce the contemplated result. The Report is not based upon so much science and f...

By "FREE*," of course, I actually mean the information which your organization is already receiving or collecting, but which is either being overlooked, unorganized or discarded as a waste product . Knowledge is indeed power, and any information which your organization collects may indeed be the key to some precious additional knowledge. The ability to identify, collect, organize and apply this "hidden-in-plain-sight" treasure is your firm's Analytics Quotient ("AQ"). The higher the AQ, the more likely you are to increase efficiency, effectiveness and sustainable profitability. The necessary actions, in beachcombing through this underemployed output are to: 1 ) Identify it: 2 ) Determine its implications and potential usefulness; and 3 ) Organize it into an actionable format; 4 ) Initiate action. 5 ) Monitor change and adjust trajectory. *Please note that I have (reluctantly) avoided the analogy about," Even on a farm, the horse manur...