Getting Smarter About Water?
There are 326 million trillion gallons of water on the earth, however 98% of that water is undrinkable because it’s…
Is Analytics “Different”?: 2 Lessons in Sales from The Mayflower Madam
Sydney Biddle Barrows is an expert in marketing luxury services. She consults for plastic surgeons, salons, retailers and others. Her…
Exterior Design, Part III: Growth
This is the last of my Exterior design topics. Again the underlying question was how does one design for an…
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…
Exterior Design, Part II: Frequency
To continue the theme of designing for an ever changing set of requirements, I wanted to talk about the second…
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…
Why Predicting the Future is So Darn Difficult
Predicting the future is difficult—just ask George Soros. While Soros is often celebrated for the $1 billion profit he made…
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,…
Walled Gardens and the Value of Innovation: Questions for Bill Franks
Two interesting articles of note in the current Harvard Business Review, one, an interview with John (“I’m not Meg Whitman”)…
