Five Top Tips for Corporate Performance Management (CPM)
CPM is about managing and improving business performance, which, of course, is at the top of the agenda of senior…
Rules for Assuring Poor Performance
In 1773 Benjamin Franklin, one of the USA’s founding fathers, wrote a pamphlet aimed at the royalty of England titled…
Managing By the Numbers: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish?
Every good business manager loves metrics. After all, the old adage, “You can't manage what you don't measure” still holds…
Voltaire, Apple, and the Myth of Perfect
I’ve been doing a great deal of research on Apple lately for my new book. In so doing, I’ve stumbled…
Governance: If It Isn’t Logical, It’s Political
It is hard to turn on the radio or TV, or read the paper or news web sites, without being…
Help Change the World with Data Science
New York based data scientist Jake recognizes that statisticians could be doing better things with data than trying to predict…
Marketing Manners & Business Intelligence: Give, and You Shall Receive
Business intelligence: We all strive for it. Marketing research departments are notorious for shelling out big bucks to survey companies…
Building an Analytical Portal to Support Analytical Culture
CAN was started in 2008, to make predictive analytics applicable and accessible to businesses of almost any size. To fulfill our…
“Pricing to Win” Makes Losers Out of Winners
Donald Tuck, Polish Prime Minister, is taking heat for the fiasco of awarding an important highway contract to a low-cost…
More Spocky, Less Rocky
On the shelves in the business section of any bookstore are numerous books about leadership and management. I have never…
