Monthly Archives: August 2016

Data-Driven Success Rests On The Shoulders Of A Strong Executive Sponsor

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Introducing and embracing a new data-driven paradigm often requires difficult changes to mindsets, skills, and behaviors. Strong executive sponsorship is almost always needed to overcome the organizational inertia that may resist and derail a transformation effort to become more data-driven. This article will review what qualities an executive sponsor for a data initiative should have and what the role’s core responsibilities are.

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HP Rebuilds High-End Gaming Offerings With New OMEN Products And Partnerships

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Although the PC market has been considered stagnant and lacking in innovation, the gaming segment has mostly been an outlier, showing the most growth outside of new form factors like convertibles. In the boutique gaming space, a small crop of unique players provide their own take on the highest-end of the high-end PC space. Companies like Falcon Northwest, Maingear and Origin PC have carried the flag of the boutique builder since companies like Alienware, Hypersonic and Voodoo PC were acquired by Dell, OCZ and Hewlett-Packard (HP) respectively. Alienware had been the only surviving brand, until HP resurrected the OMEN brand, once a line of Voodoo PC. This is where HP is starting to show that they are an innovative company once again.

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