Survey Shows Business Intelligence Wants and Struggles of SMBs
While dashboards and reporting continue to be critical elements driving adoption of business intelligence (BI) among small to medium-sized businesses…
The Human Factor Continually Confounds Probability Models
With four weeks to go in the 2011 Major League Baseball season, the probability of the Boston Red Sox of…
Blasphemy? Quantitative Approaches Don’t Always Work Best
Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates hedge fund, Pure Alpha II, is up 25% in year that hasn’t been kind to competitors.…
Self-Promoters Score! Why Analysts Can’t be Shy Anymore
It’s 2011. Analytics is hot! Does that mean we analysts are hot, too? Well, no. “Hot” isn’t a term…
Personalization: The Underappreciated Aspect of Self-Service Business Intelligence
These days, it seems like you can’t read an article about business intelligence (BI) without seeing the term “self-service.” Self-service…
Text Analytics WIIFM (What’s in it for Me?)
Every day or so, someone asks me what’s hot in analytics now. My answer is simple – text. Text analytics,…
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Decision Management Solutions, the company of which I am CEO, is running a study on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud…
Executives Don’t Like Analytics: Why Business Isn’t Data-Driven
The business bestseller lists have showcased several high-profile books featuring case studies of companies enjoying competitive advantage from their cutting-edge…
“Average” Statistics that Bruise Our Ears
The term “on average” denotes the usual amount of something. However, using “average” in presentations, media and more can be…
Was Edison “Agile”? Extracting New Value from Old Techniques
“Agile” is a hot concept in product development and project management these days, especially in software development. Use of the…
