Managing By the Numbers: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish?
Every good business manager loves metrics. After all, the old adage, “You…
“Pricing to Win” Makes Losers Out of Winners
Donald Tuck, Polish Prime Minister, is taking heat for the fiasco of…
Zero Latency: An Obsession with Velocity
Vendors often promise some derivative of the term “faster” in marketing and…
Do Customers REALLY Want to Know What’s Inside the Black Box?
From politician salaries to calorie counts on restaurant items, “transparency” is a…
Risk and Five Sigma Events – Can They Happen to You?
Perhaps it’s a sense of optimism wired into humans (or conversely delusion),…
Is Consulting Worth the Money?
For data warehouse implementations, many IT buyers offer their vendor a baseline…
Data Tracking for Asthma Sufferers?
Despite the recent privacy row with smartphones and other GPS enabled devices,…
Brains and Databases: An Obsession with Time Keeping
Data management professionals can add a time dimension to data via the…
The Next Wave in Recommendation Systems?
While some internet privacy experts fret over use of cookies and web…
Black Swans Causing a Rethink on Global Supply Chains?
A fair percentage of academicians and corporate supply chain experts agree that…