Well designed change will draw people in
There’s a reason Tim Brown, CEO of the design firm IDEO, titled his book, Change by Design. There’s a reason…
Search User Interfaces and Data Quality
One of the many things I’ve enjoyed in my first few weeks of working at Google is the opportunity to…
The Great Recession: Things Are Different Now
The global financial crisis of 2008 and beyond has shaken countries, markets, and individuals, in turn causing increased pessimism, angst…
New Search Engine Arrives: Green GUSfinder
Its index is not as large as Google’s and its servers aren’t as fast, but GUSfinder is a new search…
Some thoughts on SEO
“SEO” (=”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via organic search traffic.”…
Celebrating the Employee
I was flying to a client this week and one of the flight attendants was on her last leg of…
You Build it, You Break It, You Fix It: Why Applications Must Be Responsible for Data Quality
When it comes to bad data, a lot of the problem stems from companies letting their developers off the…
Sneak Preview to the Universe
We have set up a new site to help you find out early on what’s new at next year’s Teradata…
Microsoft’s Dallas Copies BusinessObjects Information OnDemand
Just over two years ago, BusinessObjects launched Information OnDemand, an online store allowing you to buy information from premium providers…
Organizational change remains notoriously elusive
The Harvard Business Review (HBR) weekly poll cites John Kotter’s definitive work on leading change featured in the well known…