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The three legged stool - business, analytics, IT

October 25, 2010 by James Taylor
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I was inspired to write something this week on the need to get people to collaborate by a post Jim Harris wrote called The Business versus IT—Tear down this wall! and the response Gary Cokins made in That Wall Dividing IT and Users. Both Jim and Gary make the point that collaboration between business and IT organizations and people is... [read more]

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It's time to industrialize analytics

August 19, 2010 by James Taylor
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There's a lot of talk about advanced analytics these days - the use of data mining and predictive analytics is growing rapidly so lots of articles, books (like Tom Davenport's latest) and blog posts are being written. One of these was by Jeff Kelly over on TechTarget on Data analytics team’s needs and, while I agree with some of what was... [read more]

A story about the power of rules to improve analytic decisions

March 2, 2010 by James Taylor
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I was traveling in South Africa last week (keynoting BI 2010) and my favorite online payment system demonstrated not once but twice, why business rules are so valuable in analytic decision making. First their analytics triggered a fraud alert – presumably based on patterns of problems from South African IP addresses. As I was trying to... [read more]