Data Visualization: Storytelling, Skills, and Utility
I recently read an interview on the Harvard Business Review blog with Amanda Cox, who is a trained statistician and…
Key to Business Intelligence Success: Data Accuracy and Visibility
By now, most decision-makers have probably heard some success stories regarding business intelligence (BI) – how one company used it to cut costs,…
Tracking Adwords Conversions in Salesforce: 6 Challenges
With the impending “end-of-life” of Salesforce for Google Adwords, I thought I’d dive a bit deeper into some of the…
Five BI and Analytics Takeaways from Gartner Summit 2013
The Gartner Summit in Grapevine, TX, this year was pretty fantastic, and Domo had a big presence there. But rather…
SAP’s New Fraud Management Analytical Application
SAP recently announced its new Fraud Management analytic applications. Currently in “controlled” (limited) release, it’s a promising start for the product and a…
One-Number Forecasting: A New Worst Practice?
The one-number forecasting concept has been debated for years.Advocates argue that having different groups within the same organization working to…
HIPAA Breach Lessons Learned
While no records were broken when it comes to number of health records disclosed per data breach, the top HIPAA…
What 3 Measures Are Your Business Game Changers?
I don’t know what it is exactly, but Opening Day for Major League Baseball is special. I don’t know what…
Big Data and Rise of Predictive Analytics
Back in mid 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student, one of the professors asked me what my career goal…
Technology and the Effective Marketer
In this post, I'll focus on customer intelligence driven marketing and the proper use of data. In the "information economy,"…
