Keeping up with the Joneses
The idea of benchmarking isn’t new. We constantly compare our homes, our cars, and our jobs to those around us.…
New Social Media Section
My Keynote Articles page gathers together links to my more substantial blog posts in one place and groups them into…
The Wisdom of Failure
Earlier this month, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ajay Ohri on his blog Decision Stats, which is…
#18: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Less is moreWe live…
Especially for all Business Analytics professionals out there
Last week I was being interviewed by a journalist about Business Analytics amongst other things. I found myself speaking about…
Is the time ripe for appointing a Chief Business Intelligence Officer?
Business IntelligenceOnce more I have decided to pen this article based on a question that was raised on LinkedIn.com. The…
Two analysts’ stories
Yesterday I asked business analysts at the Tableau conference in Seattle about their work. Here are two quick sketches.• One…
The Social Solutions Model
I've tried several times to build a model that I can use in presentations to help describe a social business.…
free access to BI…is business intelligence slowly becoming a commodity?
Lately more vendors are moving towards the availability of free access to a specific set of their overall offerings. For…
Why is a 15 Year Old’s Insights More Interesting Than a Market Researchers?
There’s a lot of talk online today about an article in the Guardian about how Media execs at Morgan Stanley…
