GaryCokins

144 Articles

Is Analytics-Based Performance Management Art, Craft or Science?

When visiting Rome as a tourist how can anyone not admire the…

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How Are Business Analysts Like Teenagers on the Internet?

Business analysts are in some ways similar to teenagers and college students…

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Want to Disprove a CEO’s Wishful Thinking? Use Analytics.

How often have you heard executives proclaim that next year the target…

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A Movie Script for the CIO’s IT Department

Imagine a major motion picture studio contracted you to write a movie…

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The Ideology Divide Between Intuition and Fact-based Decisions

In the USA we witness an ideology divide between its two political…

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Rules for Assuring Poor Performance

In 1773 Benjamin Franklin, one of the USA’s founding fathers, wrote a…

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More Spocky, Less Rocky

On the shelves in the business section of any bookstore are numerous…

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The Urgent Crowds Out the Important

Do you ever wonder why it takes so long for organizations to…

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The Problem That Has No Name

Do you know or do you think you know? What do we…

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The Blame Game

When our CEO first received and saw the bad news, she immediately…

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