What Is It Like To Be a Customer?
To paraphrase Thomas Nagel’s famous 1974 paper on consciousness, “What is it like to be a bat?”, I want to instead ask the question, “What is it like to be a customer?”
Big Model: The Necessary Complement to Big Data
With all the hype over big data we often overlook the importance of modeling as its necessary counterpart.
Visualization: Worth a Thousand Words
Why visualization? Several reasons, actually…
Why Build Models?
We are all modelers. Whenever you plan, you are building a model. Whenever you imagine, you are building a model. When you create…
Big Data Demands Big Quality
What are the biggest gulfs between data silos?
Is Data an Asset? The Importance of the Metaphors We Use for Data
I know I’m going to hate myself in the morning…
Agile Strategy, Revisited
You know that feeling when all your ducks appear to be in a row, all the numbers add up, all the boxes have been checked, but you’ve still got a sneaking suspicion that something is wrong?
The New Map of Global Manufacturing
See if you agree that the value comes not so much from the 300 million rows of data, which you never really encounter directly, but from the various combinations of commodity, country, trade partner, value and year.
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
Ye Olde Information Overload
“There’s no such thing as information overload - there is only filter failure”. ~ Internet scholar Clay Shirky