The Role of Data in a Disaster
The recent tragedy in Japan got me thinking about the role of data in a disaster. How do we use…
Keep the Cloud and SaaS Knowledge Coming
It is exciting to me to see the momentum of the Cloud marketplace. With every study I see, every analysts…
Baseball + Analytics = Improved Performance
A culture of metrics. How does an organization create a culture of metrics? One example is the community of baseball,…
Tom Davenport’s Culture of Analytics
On March 15 in San Francisco, Tom Davenport addressed a plenary session at Data Driven Business Week, calling his presentation The…
As Data.gov Goes Dark, 50 Startups Prepare to Take its Place
the fiscal year, and we have no reasonable expectation to get more than a couple of millions of dollars .”
Running through a data analyst’s mind late at night
From an email to me this week. Quoted with permission.
Why is IT Planning Stupid to Do?
Any possible roadmap in locating functions of operational local systems is doomed to failure. That is, anyone in the software…
Consolidation in the Social Business Market Continues: Salesforce.com Acquires Radian6
Earlier today Salesforce.com announced its agreement to acquire socialytics software vendor Radian6 for a total of $326M in cash and…
A New Economy of Data
There is a revolution in data. Yet the revolution is not as much a new technology as it is a…
