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…
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…
Analyzing the Results of Analysis
Sometimes, the output of analytical tools can be voluminous and complicated. Making sense of it sometimes requires, well, analysis. Following…
How “Dirty Data” Derails Your Company’s Data Analytics and ROI
How much of what your company knows is useful? Which data is current?
The Three Threes of BI Dashboards
Wayne Eckerson likes the number three. At least, he uses it alot in his book, "Performance Dashboards."Wayne, research director at…
Enterprise Data Management Fitness – Look Before You Leap
The initial phase of a project should be an assessment. A classic systems integrators’ project methodology will include this phase…
How to Calculate R-squared for a Decision Tree Model
A client recently wrote to us saying that she liked decision tree models, but for a model to be used…
Talk Analytics with Executives – Revisited
Analysts often complain that their work has little impact on decision-making. Seems ridiculous, doesn’t it? Businesses invest in analytics resources,…
