Puzzles, Mysteries, and Big Data
To solve a puzzle, we just keep collecting data, and eventually the right pieces will fall into place. But to solve a mystery, the right strategy may be to stop collecting more data.
Your Tax Dollars and Those Pesky Key Indicators
Every organization – a business, a school, the federal government, your family – functions better when it’s keeping score, using metrics that actually make sense. What are your favorite key indicators?
Who’s Hot In Analytics & Business Intelligence
We find that the processes that comprise business intelligence today have expanded beyond standard query, reporting, analysis and publishing capabilities. They now include
4 Steps to Building Data Science & Analytics Teams
Companies that have “data scientist” roles in their organizations are far more likely to succeed with…
Puzzles, Mysteries, and Big Data
To solve a puzzle, we just keep collecting data, and eventually the right pieces will fall into place. But to solve a mystery, the right strategy may be to stop collecting more data.
Transparency and the Information Arms Race
You are going to be spending proportionately more of your IT budget on security than you have previously spent or ever wanted to spend. Why? Because you and everyone else on this planet
Competing on Analytics: A Follow Up to Thomas H. Davenport’s Post in HBR
If you ask a CIO today about the importance of data to their enterprises, they will likely tell you about the need to “compete on analytics” and to enable faster business decisions.
Open Source Business Intelligence: Then and Now
In the Beginning…
In the early days, open source vs proprietary seemed almost a religious struggle
How To Be Strategic With Your Mobility Approach
Just as we know that mobile isn’t just about one or two sexy apps, the ability to check email or browse the web on a mobile device isn’t synonymous with mobility alone.
Work Backwards to Move Forward
We all live the experience of floating adrift on the Pivot Sea, casting our data connections out from Excel hoping to have a hit of the “big one” – now sometimes called ‘big data’ – the table, the query, the info we want that delivers that insight, those nuggets, that we so desperately want.