Business Planning Benchmark Shows No Improvement in How Companies Plan and Budget
Organizations engage in a range of forward-looking activities. Sales organizations have pipelines to forecast sales. Manufacturing organizations set and reset…
BI Advice for Midsize Organizations: Keep It Simple
The incessant talk these days about Big Data in the context of business intelligence is understandable. The unprecedented growth and…
The Data Discovery: Investing in Customer Insight
In many of our engagements with new clients, the old Donald Rumsfeld phrase of ‘We don’t know what we don’t…
Big Data For Big Weather
Courtesy of hint.fm/wind Courtesy of hint.fm/windThe east coast is slowly recovering from the devastating impact of hurricane Sandy and we…
Benefits of Embedded Business Intelligence
You lay lazily, your scruffy hair half submerged in the marshmallow-like curvature of your pillow, lethargically following the steadfast progression…
Why Enterprise Architects Want Decision Management
Enterprise Architects partner with the business to help them take full advantage of the technologies that their organizations are using,…
Sticking vs Backsliding – It Is So Sad
Have you ever been frustrated by witnessing a good decision be reversed and falling back to old ways of doing…
Is Big Data Helping or Hurting your Sales Reps?
Recently there has been a lot of debate on whether or not the influx of Big Data is a help…
Analytics and Ending the Tyranny of the Anecdotal
I was chatting with our VP of business development today and she shared a great phrase that she had heard…
Industry Exposé: Technology Vendors Skew Analysts and Influencers
In my more than a decade of writing on the trends and direction of the technology industry, occasionally I have…
