Month: January 2010

Which is more important? Rearview mirrors or windshield?

A popular pair of PowerPoint slides used by business conference speakers first…

GaryCokins GaryCokins 5 Min Read

Why Dunbar’s Number is Irrelevant

For those of you not familiar with Dunbar’s number it basically says…

JacobMorgan JacobMorgan 6 Min Read

Monitoring a System

I've been using Python with IbPy, rather than Matlab. The code I…

Editor SDC Editor SDC 5 Min Read

A CTO Analysis of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Speech on Internet Freedom

On 21 January 2010 Secretary of State Clinton delivered a speech on…

BobGourley BobGourley 8 Min Read

Counting Observations

Data is fodder for the data mining process. One fundamental aspect of…

DeanAbbott DeanAbbott 6 Min Read

How to disrupt Wall Street

Sarah Lacy has a very interesting post on TechCrunch where she conjectures…

ChrisDixon ChrisDixon 7 Min Read

How Google’s new “answer” machine could rock Web business

Google's new search technology, Google Squared, attempts to answer factual questions right…

StephenBaker1 StephenBaker1 2 Min Read

Lessons Learned from Cubetree; an Enterprise Social Software Company

I had the opportunity to speak with the CEO of Cubetree last…

JacobMorgan JacobMorgan 5 Min Read

Defining The Analytic Process

I was asked the other day to explain what I meant by…

Steve Bennett Steve Bennett 8 Min Read

Other characteristics of decision-centric organizations

Decision-centric organizations also focus on automating, not just supporting, decisions. They use…

JamesTaylor JamesTaylor 6 Min Read