Curtain call....

Of the cases my group members and I presented this semester, the one that stands out the most is the CVS case. This case really brought home some of the main points that BADM 7050 aims to convey. One of which is change management and how important it is for an organization that is attempting to implement any kind of major change. The recurring theme seems to be how to incorporate managing people in a change management system. Last week I blogged about the finding of a study that people are the biggest hindrance to companies trying to adopt analytics into their organizations. The issue of change management resonates with me particularly because I always took it for granted how resistant some people are changes even change.

More on Competing on Analytics

As a member of the group that worked on the “competing on analytics” video, I was really drawn to this article. According to article, a new study by MIT and IBM says technology is not the biggest barrier to business analytics – it’s people. Business analytics is the direction that most companies are heading in - using data analysis as the basis for most business decisions rather than “gut feeling,” but according to the study it’s not the technology that’s standing in the way of accomplishing, it’s “change management and cultural resistance.”

Outsourcing for Gov'ts

It’s always amazed me how inefficient government agencies can be. Then our recent discussions in class about outsourcing and the reasons companies outsource, one being to gain efficiencies, including cost efficiencies got me thinking: to what extent does government and its agencies outsource? I don’t know the answer to this question, but could outsourcing provide a response to the inefficiencies in government? What are some of the functions that could/should be outsourced? For profit companies have been able to gain efficiencies by outsourcing, so it’s quite plausible that outsourcing could also improve efficiencies for governments and their related agencies.