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Make these mistakes and you won't need an algorithm to predict the outcome.

Too often, the road to business process transformation runs around IT -- not through it. IT may execute, but it does not lead.

Michelle McKenna-Doyle, CIO for the National Football League, is driving innovation with analytics, using sensors to track players on the field and monitoring player health and safety with lab analysis of helmets.

In the third part of a three-part series, we look at two organizations that have chosen WordPress as their content management system.

When MasterCard WorldWide's chief innovation officer, Garry Lyons, launched MasterCard Labs two years ago, his approach to hiring was anything but conventional. Lyons began by recruiting talented people who didn't know anything about the payments processing business. "If you know too much about a particular domain, you end up saying 'that won't work' or incrementally improving something." And that, Lyons says, won't lead to the kind of innovations that bring disruptive change to the business. "Our goal is to get next-generation payment solutions into the market faster and cheaper than ever before," he adds.

In the second part of a three-part series, we look at two companies that have chosen Joomla as their content management system.

If you're dead serious about securing your online life, here's the crazy serious approach to locking down and protecting your accounts.

Three years ago, when electric grid operators were starting to talk about the need to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, few utilities had even hired a chief information security officer. Then came Stuxnet.

Political candidates aren't the only ones hoping to sway voters this election season; plenty of other groups are engaging in campaigns -- and those efforts are increasingly driven by big data, even at smaller organizations with limited resources.

The Orlando Magic's analytics team spent nearly two years honing its skills on the business side.

Where you locate an analytics practice within the business may be as critical a success factor as the team’s skills, experts say. Should you embed it within the IT organization, establish it as an independent group, or embed the function within each business unit?